Helder Miguel Correia Virtuoso Sebastião holds a B.Sc. in Economics (1993), an M.Sc. in Financial Economics (1997) from the University of Coimbra, and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Lancaster (2007). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC), where, since 1994, he has been teaching on Financial and Risk Economics, Derivatives, Monetary Economics and Banking. He is a researcher at CeBER (Centre for Business and Economics Research). His research interests are in International Financial Markets, Derivatives, Market Microstructure, Financial Econometrics, and Cryptocurrencies.