WORK EXPERIENCE
Quantitative Research, Schroders, 2016-present
Consultant, Now-Casting Economics, 2015
Researcher and Teaching Assistant, London Business School, 2010-2015
Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Business School, 2014
Researcher and Teaching Assistant, NOVA School of Business and Economics, 2009-10
Strategy Consulting, Capgemini Portugal, Portugal, 2009
Summer Intern, Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe - LCF Rothschild Group, Luxembourg, 2008
EDUCATION
PhD in Finance, London Business School, 2010-2015
MRes in Finance, London Business School, 2010-2012
MSc in Finance & BSc in Economics, NOVA School of Business and Economics, 2004-09
Summer School, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008
Exchange Program, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2006-07
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
London Business School, PhD Programe Financial Award, 2015
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, PhD Grant, 2010-14
Harvard Business School, Visiting Research Fellowship, 2014
Deutsche Bank and Chicago Booth Doctoral Symposium travel grant, 2011
Erasmus Scholarship for Mobility, 2006.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
TA, Prof. Robert Jenkins, Topics in Asset Management (LBS MBA), 2016
TA, Prof. Narayan Naik, Equity Portfolio Management (LBS Executive Education), 2011-14
TA, Prof. Narayan Naik, Equity Portfolio Management (LBS MBA), 2011-14
TA, Prof. Lucie Tepla, Derivatives: Markets and Models (LBS Executive Education), 2012-13
TA, Prof. Stephen Schaefer, Fixed Income Markets and Bond Portfolio Management (LBS Executive Education), 2012
TA, Prof. Alexander Gorbenko, Finance (LBS MiM), 2010
RA, Prof. Peter Feldhutter, 2010
TA, Prof. Pedro Santa-Clara, Investments (NOVA MiF), 2009
TA, Prof. João Amaro de Matos, Derivatives (NOVA MiF), 2009
TA, Prof. Pedro Lameira, Hedge Funds (NOVA MiF), 2009
CONFERENCES AND INVITED SEMINARS (* indicates co-author presentation)
Multinational Firms’ Geographic Segmentation and Exchange-Rate Dynamics
2016: 19th SGF Conference.
2015: LBS and Nomura International.
How Predictable are Returns Out-of-Sample? Evidence from Value and Momentum
2015: Moody's Analytics and Nomura International.
2014: the HBS PhD seminar, the LBS PhD seminar.
Testing Adverse Selection in Life Settlements: The Secondary Market for Life Insurance Policies
** Semifinalist for best paper awards at the 2014 FMA Annual Meeting
2014 (Scheduled): the LBS PhD seminar, the 7th Financial Risks International Forum*, the World Finance, the TADC, the ELSA*, the EFMA, the EEA-ESEM, and the EFA conferences.
2013: the LBS PhD and LBS brown bag* seminars, the 3rd Inquire UK Business School* and the LISA* conferences.
2012: the LBS PhD seminar, the ELSA conference*.
Perils of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Life Insurance and Life Settlements, 2013
2013: the LBS PhD seminar.
MISCELLANEOUS
Passion for food, traveling, sailing, skiing, contemporary art, piano (studied 10 years of classical) and jazz
Applications: Python, SAS, SQL, MATLAB, STATA, LaTeX , familiar with Mathematica.
Databases: CRSP, COMPUSTAT, OptionMetrics, Thomson-Reuters Institutional Holdings, TRACE, IBES, FactSet GeoRev, Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS).
Languages: Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Italian and Spanish (moderate), French (basic).