Dr. NICOLAS MERENER is an Assistant Professor of Finance, School of Business Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. His recent research focuses on Quantitative Finance, Emerging Markets & Commodities, Numerical Methods. He has written numerous scholarly articles, which have appeared in many publications including Quantitative Finance, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, The Journal of Computational Finance, Finance and Stochastics, and Europhysics Letters.