Professor Español got his PhD in Physics in 1992 at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Cambridge as a Marie Curie Fellowship holder during 1993-1994, where he joined the Group of Polymer and Colloids of the Cavendish Laboratory, he was Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2010 at UNED and has been on sabbatical leave during the year 2009 as a Senior Fellow at the FRIAS Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

My research field is Partial Differential Equations (PDE). They constitute the basic language in which most of the laws in physics or engineering can be written and one of the most important mathematical tools for modelling in life and socio-economical sciences. The modelling based on PDEs, their mathematical analysis, the numerical schemes, and their simulation in applications are my general topics of research.

External Scientific Member at BCAM. 

Evidence-based financial mathematics:

The core of contemporary financial mathematics consists of Black-Scholes theory for derivative valuation and of Markowitz method for portfolio selection. In both cases, theoretical assumptions were falsified by empirical analyses.

Peregrina Quintela is BSc Mathematical Sciences by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1982. She has a PhD in Mathematical Sciences by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in 1986 and is Docteur de l'Université de Paris VI in Mathematics (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) since 1988.