Gonçalo Faria holds a Ph.D. from the University of Porto (2010). He is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, a Researcher at CEGE (Research Center in Management and Economics) and Associate Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London. Was Associate Dean at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School between 2020 and 2023. His main areas of research are asset pricing and asset management, covering theoretical and empirical topics related with ambiguity, derivatives pricing, derivative trading strategies, forecasting of stock returns, volatility and correlation risks. His past research has been published in peer review journals (Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, European Journal of Finance, Quantitative Finance, Annals of Finance e Review of Derivatives Research) and has been awarded with research grants from the IFSID and the Global Risk Institute, from BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at SMU, from INQUIRE Europe and from Netspar at Tilburg University. Gonçalo consults for Asset Management companies, Multi-Family Offices and Private Equity Funds. In the past, was Managing Partner of a Hedge Fund, equity analyst and proprietary trader at Bank BPI and auditor at Arthur Andersen. For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/goncaloalbfaria/home