He holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Valencia (1997) and a PhD from the University of Extremadura (2004). He was a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Extremadura from 1999 to 2016, where he held positions as Associate Professor (Full-Time), Collaborating Professor and Contracted Doctoral Professor. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics for Economics and Business at the University of Valencia. His current lines of research are the development of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models and their implementation in R, time series analysis using continuous wavelet transform techniques, mathematical programming and multi-criteria analysis. Other previous lines of research include nonlinear analysis, in particular nonlinear integral equations and chaotic dynamical systems.  He has also taken a keen interest in the mathematical application to various problems in biophysics, geophysics and economics, among others. He is the author of more than 45 publications listed in the JCR, has participated in more than 9 national projects and is the coauthor of 5 R packages: deaR, wavScalogram, afmToolkit, nlstac, SdeaR. He has supervised 3 doctoral theses, 9 master's theses and numerous bachelor's theses. He has also carried out numerous academic management activities, such as serving as Academic Secretary of the Plasencia University Centre (University of Extremadura) from 2008 to 2012 and, since 2024, he has been appointed as Head of the Department of Mathematics for Economics and Business at the University of Valencia.

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.

Amparo Nagore is tenured professor in the Financial and Actuarial Economics Department at the University of Valencia (UV). She holds bachelor's degrees in Business Administration (2000) and Actuarial and Finance Science (2001) from UV, and completed an Interuniversity Research Master in Quantitative Finance (2001-2003) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Her professional experience includes research at the Valencia Institute of Economic Research (IVIE, 2003-2004), financial analyst at Econocom, Barcelona (2005-2006), structured finance analyst at Intermoney Titulización, Madrid (2006-2008), and Finance Analyst at Bank of Valencia (2008-2010). She began teaching at UV in 2008, initially as a part-time instructor in the  Department of Business Finances and Financial and Actuarial Economics Department and later as a teaching assistant in the Applied Economics Department (2010-2015). In 2015, she defended her doctoral thesis at Tilburg University (TU): "Essays on employment and unemployment transitions" in a joint PhD program between TU and UV, receiving an extraordinary PhD award. She subsequently worked as a researcher at LISER in Luxembourg before returning to the UV as an assistant professor in the Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics (2018), and was later promoted to a tenured professor (2020). Her academic achievements include a “Sexenio de Investigación” (research productivity assessment) from ANECA (2023), two "quinquenios" (teaching assessment) and accreditation as Associate Professor (May 2025).

Areas of specialization: applied labor economics, microeconometrics, economics of retirement and pensions, duration analysis, policy evaluation.

Carlos Salvador holds a PhD of Banking and Quantitate finance (with special honors) and a degree in Economics from the faculty of Economics at the University of Valencia, where he is currently Associate Professor of Economic Analysis (Profesor Titular in Spanish Universitary System). He was researcher and Assistant Professor in the department of Economic and History of CUNEF Business School (2013-2018) and a visiting researcher at the College of Business at Bangor University (United Kingdom) in 2012. His fields of specialization are the financial economics, Banking and Macroeconomics. His most outstanding research works have been published in international journals such as Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Financial Research Letters, Research in International Business and Finance, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, The Spanish Review of Financial Economics, Applied Economics letters, Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies. Among others, he has presented at the French Finance Association (AFFI), ACEDE Conference, Foro de Finanzas (AEFIN), Conference on International Finance (INFINITI) and The European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance. He has been researcher in the projects funded by the European Commission, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Madrid and Generalitat Valenciana. In the professional field, he has been technician in risks in Adquiera (Bankia Group), scholarship holder in the investment department of ASEVAL (AVIVA group) and training staff at the insurance department of the Valencia regional government. Furthermore, he has published articles about monetary policy in several newspapers and specialized magazines such as Expansión, Cinco Dias, el Economista and Valencia Plaza, among others.

Dr. María Amparo Urbano is Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia, General Studies (UVEG). A former Fulbright Scholar, she got her Ph. D. in Economics at the University of Illinois, USA in 1989 and won the “Doctoral Prize” in Economics at the University of Valencia in 1990, for a second Doctoral Thesis on Market Games with Bayesian Learning. Professor Urbano has been Member of the Research Commission, Member of the Permanent Committee of Research of the and nowadays Vice-director of the Doctoral School of the UVEG. In the Department of Economic Analysis at the University of Valencia she has been serving as director of PhD studies and as director of “ERI-CES” (a Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Economics at the University of Valencia) since 2000 and 2006, respectively. She has also served to the Spanish Academic Community by being a member of the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective in Economics (ANEP), member of the Council of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, President of the Economic Spanish Association, and jury of the Pascual Madoz National Prize in Economics. Professor Urbano has organized many International Meetings on Game Theory and Applications such as the Summer Meetings en “Game Theory and Economic Applications” (Valencia-Stony Brook (USA)), 34th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2º Meeting on Game Theory in Brazil, etc., and has been Member of many Scientific Committees of the most prestigious Conferences on Game Theory. Professor Urbano research interests include Mathematical Microeconomics, Game Theory, Economics of Information and Industrial Organization. She has published around sixty papers, some of them in the most prestigious journals in the area such as, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Games and Economic Behaviour, International Economic Review, Economic Theory, etc. She has supervised several Doctoral Thesis, has obtained many Research Projects in public Spanish Competition and has been key Speaker in the most prestigious International Conferences and Seminars on Game Theory and Applications such as Stony Brook (USA), Paris, Jerusalem, Barcelona Jocs, Louvain La Neuve, etc.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. “Identification of efficient equilibria in multiproduct trading with indivisibilities and non-monotonicity,” (with I. Arribas) Journal of Mathematical Economics, 79, pp. 83-94, 2018.
2. “Learning in Markets,” Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Vol I, Cap. 17. Pp. 486–519. L. Corchón and M. Marini (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Febrero 2018.
3. “Multiproduct Trading with a common agent under complete information,” (with I. Arribas) Journal of Economic Theory, 167, pp. 14-38, 2017.
4. "Entry and espionage with noisy signals," (with A. Barrachina, Yair Tauman) Games and Economic Behavior, 83, pp. 127-146, 2014.
5. “Computational Complexity and Communication: Coordination in two-player Games," (with Jose Enrique Vila) Econometrica, vol. 70, pp. 1893-1927, (2002).