Education

Agregacao, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. July 2003.

Ph.D. in Management at The European Institute of Business Administration(INSEAD). Major in Finance. Thesis: Empirical Test of American Options. Chairperson:Pierre Hillion. April 1995.

Post-Doc at the Institut fuür Angewandte Mathematik, University of Heidelberg, October 1988-August 1989.

Ph.D. in Physics at Instituto de Física da Universidade de Scao Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Thesis: Fluctuations in Curie-Weiss Models: Classical Disordered and Quantum Systems(in Portuguese). Chairperson: José Fernando Perez. Graduated com louvor e distincao.September 1988.

M.Sc. in Physics, Instituto de Fisica da Universidade de Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. Dissertation:Fluctuations in Quantum Curie-Weiss Models (in Portuguese). Degree obtainedcom distincao. November 1984.

B.Sc. in Business Administration, 1978 to 1983, Escola de Administracao de Empresas de Sao Paulo da Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

B.Sc. in Physics, 1978 to 1982, Instituto de Física da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Academic Appointments

Joint Appointment at Getulio Vargas Business School, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2014-December 2015.

Visiting Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, August-December 2012.

Associate Professor, Faculdade Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, since 2005.

Visiting Fellow at the LSE, London, UK, August-December 2002.

Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dubna, April 1989