Paulo J. Pereira is a Full Professor (Professor Catedrático) of Finance at the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto (FEP.UP) and Associate Researcher at the Research Center in Economics and Finance (CEF-UP). Between 2011 and 2019 he served as Director of the Master in Finance Program. Paulo obtained the title of Agregado in Management from the University of Porto (2018). He has a PhD in Business Administration (field: Finance) from the University of Minho (2006). His research interests regard essentially the theory and practice of Real Options. He has published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Quantitative Finance, European Journal of Finance, Economic Modelling, Economics Letters, Mathematics and Financial Economics, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, among others.