Eduardo Horta is an Adjoint Professor and Early Career Researcher in the Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Economics from the same University (2015), having spent a season as Visitor Graduate Student (Sandwich Doctorate) at Queen Mary University of London (2013). His research interests include functional time series, stochastic processes, financial econometrics, nonparametric methods and quantile regression.