Dr. Cecilio Tamarit Escalona is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia. He holds an endowed "ad personam" Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration and is a member of the INTECO joint research unit (https://www.inteco.uji.es). He was previously Senior Fellow at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Senior Advisor at the Spanish Prime Minister's Office, Visiting Fellow (and invited professor) at the University of Nottingham, University of Goettingen, Harvard University and Robert Schuman Scholar at the Research Department of the European Parliament. His main lines of research are Monetary and Fiscal Integration and International Trade and Macroeconometrics. He has published extensively in academic journals as Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Macroeconomics or Economic Modelling.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Camarero, M., J. Sapena and C. Tamarit (2019): “Modelling Time-Varying parameters in panel data state-space frameworks: An application to the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle", Computational Economics, forthcoming. Impacto JCR Economía (2017): 1.038. Q2.
2. Camarero, M., Gómez, E. y C. Tamarit (2014) “Is the ‘euro effect´ on trade so small after all? New evidence using gravity equations with panel cointegration techniques", Economics Letters, 124: 140-142. Impacto (2013): 0.451. Q3.
3. Camarero, M., J.L. Carrion-i-Silvestre y C. Tamarit (2013): “Global imbalances and the Intertemporal External Budget Constraint: A multicointegration approach”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 37:5357-5372. Impacto (2013): 1.36. Q1 (Business); Q2 (Economics).
4. Esteve, V. and C. Tamarit (2012): “Threshold cointegration and nonlinear adjustment between CO2 and income: The Environmental Kuznets Curve in Spain, 1857–2007”, Energy Economics, 34, 2148-2156. Impacto (2013): 2.58. Q1 Economics.
5. Camarero, M., R.G. Flôres y C. Tamarit (2006): “Monetary Unions and productivity differences in Mercosur countries”, Journal of Policy Modelling, 28, 53-66. Impact (2013): 1.042. Q2. Clave: A.

Hellow,

My name is Valentín Bou-Franch. I got the Degree in Law at the University of Valencia on July 4, 1984. In this same University, I defended my Undergraduate Thesis the 26th of September 1986, as well as  my Doctoral Thesis on the 21st of December 1990.

Currently, I am a Full Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the University of Valencia (Spain). I am also the holder of a Jean Monnet Chair granted by the European Union in regime of competitive concurrence at the global level. The University of Valencia, through its Office of Policy for Excellence (OPEX) has honoured me, recognizing my Jean Monnet Chair as an institutional Chair of the University of Valencia, with the abbreviated name of Jean Monnet Chair "European values".

Both my academic training and my professional career are very much linked to the 'Adolfo Miaja de la Muela' Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law of this University.

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Education has recognized me five consecutive sections (six-year periods) of excellence in research (years: 1989-2018); six consecutive stretches (five-year periods) of excellence in teaching (years: 1987-2016); and ten consecutive three-year periods of seniority (years: 1987-2016).

My main lines of research include: the Legal Regime of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, International Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law, Procedures for the Settlement of International Disputes, International Protection of Cultural Heritage, European Union Law, International Criminal Law and International Law of Human Rights.

My participation in competitive Research, Development and Innovation (R+D+I) Projects financed with public funds has consisted in participating as a Researcher in six R+D+I Projects funded by the European Union (two times as the Main Researcher); in nine R+D+I Projects at state level (four times as the Main Researcher); and in eight R+D+I Projects at regional level (five times as the Main Researcher). I have obtained two Grants for special R+D+I Actions and three Complementary Grants for R+D+I Projects. I have also participated in two Teaching Innovation Projects.

I am the author of an important number of publications which, along with other aspects relevant for my professional curriculum vitae, you can consult at my Web page:

https://valentinbou.es

Mónica Martínez López-Sáez is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law. She holds a PhD (cum laude) in Constitutional and European Law. She holds an LLB (High-performance group, top of her class) and an LLM in European Union and International Studies (UVEG) in addition to an M.A. in Institutional Translation (Legal and Economic Translation) by the University of Alicante. She has conducted her predoctoral research (as a Ministry research fellow-graduate teaching assistant) at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the European University Institute and Golden Gate University School of Law. In 2016 she was a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission (DG-HOME) and was awarded the VIII Cañada Blanch Foundation Prize. She currently conducts research in the field of EU data protection, with her primary focus being on digital rights and privacy law. However, her research interests cover the field of Spanish and EU Constitutional Law and she is especially interested in fundamental rights, human rights protection systems and vulnerable persons. As a García Pelayo postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish Center for Political and Constitutional Studies, she has expanded her lines of research to the field of transparency and good governance, as well as digital transformation and public law. She has obtained the International Legal English Certificate -with merit- and the CPE (Cambridge University).