Luciano Amaral is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. His research has been mostly dedicated to economic growth in the twentieth century, but also to banking history and the history of business groups in the same period, with particular attention to Portugal.

He has taught general Economic History of the period ranging from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, and Portuguese Economic History of the same period. Currently he teaches the course of Modern and Contemporary History at the undergraduate level.

Current research interests include: modern economic history, economic growth, banking, business groups and crises and stabilizations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries