Elisabet Ruiz Dotras

Holder of a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and a doctoral degree, also in Economics and Business Studies, from the University of Barcelona. She has been a member of the teaching staff at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) Faculty of Economics and Business since 1999. She directed the Business Administration and Management (2001-2005) and Market Research and Techniques (2006-2014) degree programmes and the master's degree in Financial Instruments and Markets (2000-2015) at the UOC.

Her teaching activity has always been related with financial markets and business finance. She is currently an associate professor at the UOC and a researcher in the DigiBiz Research Group, at the UOC. She was a visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong (2014/2015) at the University of California Los Angeles (2010/11). From 2013 to 2014, she was also a partner at MuntAudit SL, a consulting and forensic economic company. There, she served as a Court Expert Witness in a dispute about the portfolio between a bank and a private banking client.

Her research is focused on three different fields:

1. the study of the interaction between financial literacy and new ventures;
2. the analysis of the interaction between financial literacy and flow in online banking; and
3. the neuroscience analysis of saving decisions and financial literacy. 

She has published several papers and participated in various international conferences and seminars on finance and e-learning. She has also developed a number of teaching materials, designed and created many courses, and collaborated on a number of books and projects related to the financial sector.