Julio Crego received his Ph.D. in Cemfi under the supervision of Dante Amengual and Enrique Sentana. His first job was as an assistant professor in Tilburg. He moved from Tilburg to Nova soon after becoming an associate professor. His research focuses on how public and private information percolates into financial markets. In particular, he is very interested in how to use option prices to provide new insights about the information in the market.