Finance
Apresentation
Director: Professor João Pedro Nunes
Introduction
Director: Professor João Pedro Nunes
The Department of Finance was created in 2001. It aims to contribute to the development of the financial field through high quality academic programmes that shape the knowledge and competencies of current and future professionals and by conducting state-of-the-art research that stands to have an impact on scientific and professional developments in the field.
The Department offers a wide range of compulsory and elective courses in the undergraduate programmes, and is responsible for specialized master's and PhD programmes.
Research is carried out in line with the most rigorous international standards. Faculty members regularly publish in the most prestigious journals in their fields such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Mathematical Finance. They are also invited to participate in the most important conferences worldwide and are actively engaged in supervising demanding, breakthrough projects in the master's and PhD programmes.
Most of the Department's 20 faculty members are full-time staff and hold PhDs.
Faculty
The Department has a faculty of approximately 20.
The faculty has widespread international experience. Many faculty members hold a PhD from such prestigious universities as Columbia, Lausanne, London Business School, U. North Carolina, Warwick and U. Wisconsin. They have international teaching experience and are often involved in cross-border research projects.
The Department also has a group of part-time professors who hold top management positions in well-known Portuguese corporations and government institutions. Their expertise and connections help foster closer relations between the School and the business world.
Numerous members of the faculty are authors of critically-acclaimed books in their fields of expertise. Many of these books serve as reference books in Portugal for practitioners and as textbooks for undergraduate and graduate courses.
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