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I am a Professor of Econometrics and Finance (Professeur des Universités) and the Director of the Master CGAO at the University of Lille (France), and I was an Associate Professor at the University of Evry-Paris Saclay from 2010 to 2018, and an Assistant Professor at Amiens School of Management from 2006 to 2010. Currently, I am an Associate Researcher at EconomiX-CNRS (University of Paris Nanterre) and a Deputy Director for CAC (Cliometrics and Complexity Team at IXXI Complex Systems Institute, http://www.ixxi.fr/?p=3219) in France. In addition, I’m an Officer of the Society for Economic Measurement in the U.S. (http://sem.society.cmu.edu/home.html ), and a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Egypt. I am a Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (elected in June 2018) https://sem.society.cmu.edu/SEM_Fellows.asp. I 'm also a Charter Fellow at the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference (INDI) in Russia since 2015. I have been a Visiting Scholar or Professor at the University of Chicago, Emory University, University of Kansas, University of Liverpool, University of Ljubljana, University of Greenwich, and University of Gent since 2009.

My research interests are: Empirical Finance and Applied Econometrics. I’ve over 100 papers published in various International Journals including: Annals of Operational Research, Applied Economics, Computational Economics, Econometric Reviews, Economic Modelling, Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quaterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Revue d'Economie Politique, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, The Energy Journal, etc. I’ve co-authored and co-edited several books and book chapters for Chapman Hall / Francis and Taylor, Emerald Group Publishing, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, World Scientific, etc.

I have also served as an Associate Editor or a Subject Editor to the following Journals: Computational Economics (since 2016), Emerging Market Review (since 2016), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (since 2015), Macroeconomic Dynamics (since 2014), Research in International Business and Finance (since 2014), and Economic Modelling (since 2013). Additionally, I’ve co-edited several special issues for different national and international journals in Economics and Finance.

Lastly, I’m the Co-Organizer of two International Conferences: The first one covers topics on Computational Economics (International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance (www.iscef.com ), while the second one looks at the recent developments in financial and nonlinear econometrics: International Workshop on Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics (www.fmnd.fr).I was also the Co-Chair of the SEM (Society for Economic Measurement) 's Second Conference (Paris, July 22-24, 2015). I was the Co-chair the 25th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics: http://snde2017.essec.edu/home that was organized in Paris on March 30-31, 2017, with ESSEC.

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Paulo Ferrão is a Distinguished Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, President of IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research. He is a board member of the EUREKA Association, and a former President of the COST association. He has been the President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia from 2016 to 2019, and Director of the MIT-Portugal Program from 1996 to 2016. He is a member of the Environmental Advisory Committee of Rolls-Royce.

He has been active in “Sustainable Cities”, where he co-authored a book at MIT-Press on “Sustainable Urban Metabolism”. He is a member of the European Commission Mission Board on “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities”, and he has been engaged with the U.S. National Academies as a member of the Sustainability Roundtable, the Committee on “Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government” and the committee of “Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States”. He has been leading the urban project component in two ADB projects, for which the publication “Urban metabolism of six Asian Cities” emerged.

His scientific career has evolved within the areas of “Laser diagnostics for turbulent combustion”, “Energy Systems” and “Industrial Ecology”. He is very active in the area of Waste management, and he was the coordinator of the National Waste Management Strategy for Portugal and of the Portuguese Municipal Waste Management Strategic Plan (PERSU 2020).

He is author and co-author of nine books and more than hundred peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals and a variety of book chapters and over hundred papers presented in conferences and invited talks in different domains.