DrAdrian Fernandez-Perez

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Business

BIO

I am from a small island called Gran Canaria (Spain) where I did my PhD in Economics. I am Assistant Professor in Finance at University College of Dublin (Ireland). Before that, I was Director of the Auckland Centre for Financial Research (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand). My research focuses on the pricing of commodities and behavioral finance. My articles are published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, or The Energy Journal, among others. As testimonies of the relevance of my research to the industry, my work is featured in media and practitioners' journals (Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Global Commodities Applied Research Digest, Hedge Funds Review, Investment and Pension Europe, or The Conversation), and was awarded grants from private companies such a United States Oil Fund, L.P., and financial market participants such as INQUIRE UK, BA/Leverhulme or AFAANZ. I am Associate Editor of Journal of Commodity Markets (the leading commodity markets journal), and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Commodity Insights Digest (CID).

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland2024

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director
    Auckland Centre for Financial Research, New Zealand2022 - 2024
  • Senior Research Fellow
    Auckland Centre for Financial Research, New Zealand2020 - 2022
  • Research Fellow
    Auckland Centre for Financial Research, New Zealand2015 - 2020
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    Auckland Centre for Financial Research, New Zealand2014 - 2014

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Ph.D. in Economics
    University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain2005 - 2012
  • M.Sc. in Banking and Finance
    University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain2007 - 2009
  • M.Sc. in Economics: Applications to Finance and Insurance, Sectorial Economy, Environment and Infrastructure and Transport
    University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain2005 - 2007
  • B.Sc. in Economics
    University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain2000 - 2005

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review