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EDUCATION

  • 2017-2022. PhD. in Economics, Business, Finance and Computer Sciences (Universidad de Huelva).
    • Thesis title: «Self-employment at the macro-level: Drivers, inhibitors and fluctuations»
    • Supervisors: Máximo Camacho (Universidad de Murcia) and Emilio Congregado (Universidad de Huelva).
    • Defense 30 September 2020. Committee: Javier J. Pérez (BdE), Begoña Cueto (Universidad de Oviedo), André van Stel (Trinity College Dublin)
    • Grade Excellent – Cum Laude. International Mention.
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  • 2016. Master in Economics, Finance and Computer Sciences (Universidad de Huelva and Universidad Internacional de Andalucía). Grade 8.96/10. Award for the best Master Thesis.
  • 2015. Bachelor in Business Administration (Universidad de Huelva). Grade 8.55/10.
  • 2015. Bachelor in Tourism Management (Universidad de Huelva). Grade 8.6/10. Award for the best academic record.

EVALUATION PROGRAMMES / ACREDITATION

  • Accredited by the ANECA (Spanish Agency of Accreditation) as Assistant Professor. February 2023.
  • Accredited by the DEVA (Andalusian Agency of Accreditation) as Associate Professor (Profesora Contratada Doctora) and as Assistant Professor (Profesora Ayudante Doctora). December 2022.  

RESEARCH

  • Lines of Research: Business Cycles and Labour Economics.
  • Published Papers:

– Is employment protection legislation a driver or an inhibitor of entrepreneurship? The interaction between stringency and enforcement (with E. Congregado and C. Roman). International Journal of Manpower, 2024.

– An inquiry into the drivers of an entrepreneurial economy: A Bayesian clustering approach (with M. Camacho and E. Congregado). Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2024.

– Re-Evaluating the Relationship Between Economic Development and Self-Employment, at the Macro-Level: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2022.

– Persistence in Self-Employment Rates before the Great Lockdown: The Case of the UK (with E. López-Pérez and E. Congregado). Sustainability, 2020.

– What has Changed After the Great Recession on the European Cyclical Patterns? Journal of Business Cycle Research, 2019.

  • Research and Educational training fellowships: Scholarship of research and educational training (FPU) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (2017-2021).
  • Research groups: Spanish Entrepreneurship Research Group –SERG– (SEJ487).
  • Guest researcher in the Economics and Research Department, Bank of Portugal. January 2023-May 2023.
  • Guest researcher in the Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business. September 2020-March 2021.

CONFERENCES

  • XVI Jornadas de Economía Laboral, Barcelona. July 2024.
  • 7th Paper Development Seminar, Sevilla. May 2024.
  • 6th ASTRIL Conference, Rome (IT). January 2023.
  • XV Jornadas de Economía Laboral, Albacete. July 2022.
  • 8th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting, Gran Canaria. June 2022.
  • XXIV Applied Economics Meeting, Palma. June 2022.
  • XIV Jornadas de Economía Laboral, online. June 2021.
  • XIII Jornadas de Economía Laboral, Huelva. June 2019.
  • XX Seminario Hispano-Luso de Economía Empresarial, Huelva. November 2018.
  • Global Workshop on Freelancing & Self-Employment Research, London (UK). April 2018.
  • XVIII Conference on International Economics, La Rábida (Huelva). June 2017.

TEACHING

  • Since 2024. PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics (Universidad de Málaga). Subjects: Statistics (Bachelor in Economics, in Finance & in Tourism).
  • 2023-2024. Temporary Substitute Professor in the Department of Applied Economics (Universidad de Sevilla). Subjects: Maths, Statistics.
  • 2022-2024. Professor in the Faculty of Business (UNIR). Subjects: Statistics, World Economics.
  • 2017-2021. FPU practices in the Department of Economics (Universidad de Huelva). Subjects: Introduction to Micro and Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics. 
  • 2015-2016. Temporary Substitute Professor in the Department of Economics (Universdad de Huelva).

PERSONAL SKILLS

  • Languages: Spanish (Native) and fluent English.
  • Computer Skills: Matlab, Gauss, Stata, E-views, R, Gretl.