Francisco Jareño (PhD in Finance at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) is full professor and vice-dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences at the UCLM. Francisco carries out his research in Finance, specifically in the study of the term structure of interest rates and volatilities, international financial markets, contagion and spillover effects, risk management and cryptocurrencies, among others financial topics. He has authored over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles such as Energy Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Research in International Business and Finance, International Journal of Finance and Economics, among others.