Cesario Mateus is a Full Professor of Finance. He has joined Aalborg University in 2019. Prior to joining the Department of Business and Management at Aalborg University, he has worked at different universities in various countries, these include Cass Business School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Melbourne, Catholic University of Lisbon, University of Greenwich, University of Southampton, Aston Business School, Brunel University, among others. He also worked for private and public companies (e.g. Portuguese Securities and Exchange Commission, Banco Comercial Portugues, Ocidental Insurance Company, Aldersgate Investment Managers). He has served as a member of the board of Directors at the Asian Finance Association. He is an active member of professional associations (e.g. American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Royal Economic Society), an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Corporate Governance and Sustainability Review and an editorial board member for journals such as Journal of Banking Regulation and Journal of Industry - University Collaboration.

His research interests include: corporate finance issues (capital structure, cash holdings, taxation, right issues, etc.), corporate governance (regulation, supervisory boards, and banks' risk-taking) and asset management (mutual funds' performance and style investments).

He has published over 40 refereed research papers in high-quality international journals, such as the European Journal of Finance, the International Review of Financial Analysis, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, the Journal of International Economic Law and the International Journal of Finance and Economics, among others. All the papers are available in ResearchGate.

As per GoogleScholar, his research has been cited in over 600 academic papers and corresponds to h-index of 18.