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I am licensed in (2004) from the University of Valencia (UV) with the Diploma of Professional Specialization in Spanish Financial Bags and Markets (UV-DEIT). Master in quantitative banking and finance, interuniversity program with quality mention. Doctor in quantitative finance (2010) by the UV. I was beneficiary for two years of an Aseval scholarship (Aviva’s Group) for doctoral studies and a mobility scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Science.

I am part of the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economy of the UV since 2011 and previously, I belonged to the Department of Economic Analysis and Finance of the University of Castilla La Mancha.

framed in the area of quantitative finances, my research career has mainly directed to the analysis and measurement of financial risks, specifically, the study of the risk of interest and credit risk. I have participated in 10 competitive research projects, one of them international based in Cass Business School, 5 financed by the Ministry, 2 by the Ramón Areces Foundation (in one of them as the main researcher), another funded by the UV where I was a principal investigator and another regional financed by the Board of Communities of Castilla La Mancha. In addition, I participated as a team member in a research contract with the Valencian Institute for Economic Research (IVIE). I have received the Doctoral Thesis Award (2010) of the Economic and Social Council of the Valencian Community and the Prize for Teaching Excellence of the UV Social Council in 2019.

I have been speaker at more than 45 national and international congresses and assisted more than 35 courses related to research and teaching. I have two research sexenios (ANECA). I have published in magazines ofImpact as Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Emerging Markets Review, Journal of Empirical Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Economics and Finance, Finance Research Letters and Research In International Business and Finance.

I have organized various activities related to research among which stand out the 15th Infiniti Conference on International Finance held at the Faculty of Economics of the UV in 2017 and the annual Event of Finance Research Letters in its editions of 2020, 2021 and 2022 held outside Spain. I have participated as a court member in two doctoral theses, one of them in the UV and the other at the University of Castilla La Mancha. I have been a member of the Academic Committee of the Chair in International Finance of the Santander Bank from 2014 to 2018. I have been Guest Editor in four Special Issues in the magazine Finance Research Letters where I am editor-in-chief from September 2021.

Regarding teaching, I certify university teaching experience of more than 2,500 hours given (between grade and master) and three quinquenios of teaching recognized. Teaching evaluations are considered very positive having recognized two periods of teacher with excellent qualification and a global score average in the 2023-2024 course of 4.72 out of 5. I give matters that cover multiple areas in finance: portfolio theory, financial mathematics, finance, markets and assets of fixed income and titling and credit risk. Accumulation 148 hours of teaching in company practices, 366 hours in the direction of TFG and 135 hours in TFM. From 2011 to the present I have directed 46 TFG and 17 TFM. Among these, 5 of them belong to the master's degree in banking and quantitative finance and the rest to the Master in UV actuarial and financial sciences. In addition, I have participatedin 27 reading courts in the aforementioned masters.

Regarding the performance of another university teaching activity, it is worth highlighting the delivery of the courses "Finance I" and "Finance II" for the Nau Gran de la UV during three academic courses, the course "Financial Education, Retirement and Pension Plans" for the University Balearic PROJECT ”, one in the UV and one at the international level for FGV EAESP (São Paulo).

I have participated in 7 educational innovation projects as a team member, 4 of them from the UV and 2 of the University of La Rioja and the University of Castilla La Mancha. I have organized 7 days and seminars of teaching innovation, I have 6 teaching publications, 10 presentations in teaching congresses and 19 courses received from university teacher training.

I have been coordinator of the third course of the degree in Finance and Accounting of the UV from 2012 to 2021, a member of the CCA of the Master in Actual and Financial Sciences since 2018 and I have been secretary of the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economy from 03/2021 to 03/2025.

[Biography, english version]

Dr Fernández de Guevara graduated and obtained his PhD (with special honors) in Economics from the Universitat de València, where he is currently Full Professor of Economic Analysis and Research Professor at the Ivie. His specialized fields are banking, social capital, productivity analysis and the role of the ICT and the intangible assets in economic growth. He has been researcher in the projects funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme, INDICSER and SPINTAN, and advisor to the European Investment Bank and the UN. He has been researcher of four projects of National Research plan, and has been principal researcher of a project of the regional R&D plan. He has authored more than 30 books and book chapters and has co-edited three books for Palgrave MacMillan and the BBVA Foundation. Also, he has published more than 30 articles in specialized journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, The Manchester School, The European Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Regional Studies, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Higher Education and Journal of Financial Stability, among others, and has taken part in numerous national and international congresses. In 2015, he received the prize for the best co-authored paper from Funcas in its Research Promotion Programme.

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.

She is senior lecturer/associate professor in the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics of the Universitat de València (Spain). She holds a licenciatura (former Spanish undergraduate degree) in Business Management and Administration by Universitat de València, a BA (Hons) in European Management by the University of Westminster (United Kingdom) and a PhD in Quantitative Finance by Universitat de València. Her research has been developed in the field of volatility transmission between financial markets, risk management, energy markets and financial ethics. This activity has also been developed as a visiting researcher in different centres such as the Department of Finance of Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and the Department of Economics and Business of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). Her experience as a researcher is supported by several publications in journals such as Financial Analysts Journal, Quantitative Finance, Review of World Economics, Environmental Economics, Revista de Economía Financiera, Journal of Business Ethics, Sustainability, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Risk or Finance Research Letters. She has also research experience from her participation as a collaborating researcher in several projects from public and competitive calls (both regional and national). Finally, her participation in different governing and representative bodies of the university should be highlighted. She was, for instance, vice-dean of the Faculty of Economics of Universitat de València.

Hipolit Torro is currently professor of Financial Economics at the Universitat de València, Spain. He has a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from the Universitat de València, a M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics from the Universities of Edingburgh and Heriot-Watt and a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Universitat de València. He has published a number of referred articles in finance and economics academic journals (Energy Economics, Energy Policy, The Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Quantitative Finance, The Journal of Risk, Journal of Banking and Finance,…) and he has contributed to several books and conference proceedings. He has participated as a lead investigating member in research projects funded by the Generalitat Valenciana, Fundación Caja de Madrid, the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, and the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain. His current areas of interest are Energy Derivatives (electricity, oil, natural gas and renewable energy sources), Asset Pricing and Risk Portfolio Management.