Mihaela Nicolau is Associate Professor of Finance at Danubius University, Romania. She has more than 15 years of teaching experience at “Dunarea de Jos” University, “Danubius” University in Romania, and "Politecnica delle Marche" University Italy, in the field of financial markets, banking, monetary economics, corporate finance and taxation. She holds a Ph.D. in Financial Markets and Insurance from the “Giorgio Fuà” Faculty of Economics,  Italy. Since April 2016 she is the Executive Director of the Center for Research on Socio-Economic Dynamics in Sustainable Development (DiSEDD),

Her main research topics are Financial markets with emphasis on Energy markets , Financial Intermediaries, Social Innovation in Finance, Corporate finance, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Taxation.