Marta Simões

Marta Simões is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra and a researcher affiliated with the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), University of Coimbra. Her research interests include economic growth, human capital, innovation and applied econometrics. She is the author or co-author of over 40 publications in international scientific peer reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She serves as a reviewer for several national and international publications and regularly attends international scientific conferences in her fields of research. She has participated in projects funded by the European Commission and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience mostly in the field of Macroeconomics (BsC, Masters, PhD, MBA levels) and has supervised more than forty Master’s dissertations and one completed PhD thesis. She holds PhD, Masters and bachelor degrees in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. She is currently vice-director of CeBER.