Professional Activities
Associate Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
Senior Co-Editor, Advances in Econometrics, AiE
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Director of of LAMBDA (Liverpool Advanced Methods for Big Data Analytics) Research Centre at the University of Liverpool Management School
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards:
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Elected member of the Econometric Society Regional Standing Committee
Panelist for PASRC Career Development Webinar Series, January 7, 2022:
Thematic Guest Resource Person with AERC, January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024.
Outstanding Referee Award from Journal of Empirical Finance, 2015.
Keynote Speaker, 15th IWH-CIREQ Macroeconometric Workshop, December 2014.
Keynote Speaker, Lille Research Workshop on Statistics and Econometrics, May 19, 2017, Lille.
Keynote Speaker, 2nd conference on Statistical Methods and Econometric Models: Application in Economics and Finance (ICOSMEM 2023), Tetouan Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco, February 24-25, 2023.
Keynote Speaker, University of Malaga Workshop, June 8-9, 2023.
Keynote Speaker, 7th African International Conference (AIC) on Statistic, Advanced Statistics and Data Science in Africa, June 12-16, 2023.
Keynote Speaker at the 2024 FinTech and AI in Finance Conference on October 14, 2024.
Distinguished Speaker, CIBAFI Webinar on Big Data Analytics in Islamic Finance: Catalyst for Growth and Transformation, January 22nd, 2024.
Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, 2010-2013.
Program Chair of 2019 Edition of African Econometric Society Meeting, Rabat, July 11-13, 2019.
Some Research Grants where I am involved:
Interdisciplinary research grants
SDG Education and Global Citizenship in Qatar: Enhancing Qatar’s Nested Power in the Global Arena. Total grant $2.5M in partnership with State University of New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, Strathclyde University, the United Nations as well as two universities in Qatar (QU & HBKU). 2021-2025.
World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Qatar Foundation, 2018-2019.
Other grants
Two ESRC Doctoral Scholarships (two on the same year). Year 2016.
"Forecasting Risk: Realized Quantile Approach", AXA Research Fund, Doctoral Sponshorship: (PhD dissertation Advisor), 2011-2014.
Spanish Secretaria de Investigacion y Desarrollo, Grant ECO2013, 46395, "Econometric Methods for non-linear Economies with Persistence and Volatility", 2014-2017.
Spanish Ministry for Science and Education, Grant #SEJ2007-63098, "Persistence, Asymmetries and Risk in Economic Models: A Type Threshold Economy ", 2007-2010.
Spanish Ministry for Science and Education, Grant #ECO2010-19357, "Persistence and Non-Linearities in Economics: A Threshold Economy ", 2011-2013.