Alberto Lopez

Alberto Lopez is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG) within the University of Lisbon. He currently serves as Diretor-Adjunto do Laboratório de Inovação at Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda. His academic journey includes a Doctorate in Mathematics (2010) from ISEG, a Master in Economy, Monetary and Financial Economics (2022), and a Bachelor in Mathematics from Universitat Zurich.

• Professional Affiliations: ISEG, University of Lisbon; Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda; Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA).
• Research Focus: Algebraic geometry (Brill-Noether theory, moduli spaces), financial economics (central bank policies), and machine learning ethics. His work bridges pure mathematics with applied economics and computational science.

Recent research includes studies on central bank asset purchases' macroeconomic impacts, algorithmic bias in machine learning, and combinatorial structures in algebraic geometry.

• Awards: Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship at IMPA (2015).
• Teaching: Coordinates mathematics courses for economics and management programs at ISEG.

He leads innovation initiatives at Laboratório de Inovação and has held roles such as Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study and Norbert Wiener Assistant Professor at Tufts University.