Maria Angel Ferrero is Assistant Professor in  Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Montpellier, in France.

Her teaching pedagogy is based on active learning approaches and the use of technology and gamification.

She is highly involved with the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and  always in the quest for providing students with better entrepreneurial education and learning experience.

Her cross-disciplinary research brings together behavioral finance, psychology, innovation and entrepreneurship theories and approaches to explore the behavior and thinking of entrepreneurs and innovators. In 2016 she was awarded the prize for ‘Best Ph.D. Thesis’ in Corporate Finance by the French National Association of Finance.

She also runs a blog on Medium where she shares her thoughts on education, science and pedagogical innovation.She is the editor of The Faculty a Medium publication about education, science and everything in between.