She holds a PhD in Economics from IDEA, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest. Her research interests are asset pricing and strategic behaviour in financial markets and her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Financial Management, and Economics Letters. She has belonged to the Scientific Committees of the Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association 2006-2010, the Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association 2007, the European Meeting of the Financial Management Association 2007, and the Annual Meeting of the European Financial Management Association 2006, 2016 among others. In 2016 she led the “Merton H. Miller” Doctorate Seminar organized by the European Financial Management Association.