Sofia Brito Ramos is currently assistant professor of finance at ISCTE-Lisbon Universitario de Lisboa. Her research is broadly on portfolio management, energy finance and international finance and she is interested in the financialization of commodities markets and the financial investments in the energy sector. She has published her work in Energy Economics, Energy, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, European Financial Management, Economic Modelling, European Finance Journal, and International Journal of Finance and Economics. Ramos holds a MSC in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute, University of Lausanne. Helena Veiga is currently associate professor of econometrics at the Statistic Department of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her research is on financial econometrics, time series, panel data, empirical finance, in particular experimental finance, commodities markets and financial investments in the energy sector.

She has published her work in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, European Review of Economics, Energy Economics, Experimental Economics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and Journal of Productivity Analysis. Helena Veiga holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.