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Dolores Furió (Alberic-Valencia, 1974) is a Full Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Valencia, where she is a member of the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics and Business (2008), a degree in Actuarial and Financial Sciences (2003), and a degree in Economics and Business, for which she received the Extraordinary Graduation Award (1997).

Her research lies at the intersection of financial economics and energy markets, with a particular focus on price formation, risk management and the regulation of electricity markets. She has published extensively in leading international journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Utilities Policy, Quantitative Finance, Energy Journal, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Finance Research Letters and Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, among others, and is also the author of several books and book chapters on economics and energy.

She has served as principal investigator on competitive research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and by the Regional Government of Valencia (Generalitat Valenciana), and has been involved in numerous research and knowledge-transfer contracts and agreements with public and private organisations in the financial and energy sectors.

In the area of teaching, she has delivered undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Fundamentals of Financial Economics, Derivatives Markets and Instruments, Financial Mathematics and Financial Risk Management, both at the University of Valencia and at other universities. She has supervised doctoral dissertations and numerous master's and bachelor's theses, playing an active role in the education and mentoring of new generations of professionals and academics.

Beyond her academic work, she has held senior positions in public administration, including serving as Director General for Economic Model, Financing and Financial Policy at the Regional Ministry of Finance of the Generalitat Valenciana. Within the university, she has been Director of the Master's Degree in Banking and Quantitative Finance, as well as course coordinator for the Degree in International Business and member of various academic and scientific committees.

She is the director of the research group Financial Economics and Energy Finance (EFEN) and acts as a regular reviewer of national and international research projects and of articles submitted to leading journals in her areas of expertise. She has been invited to deliver lectures and seminars at national and international conferences and academic forums.

In addition, she has prior professional experience in the financial sector and regularly contributes as a commentator to media outlets specialised in economics and energy.