Sérgio Sousa (PhD) is Assistant Professor with Tenure in the Department of Production and Systems, and member of the Industrial Engineering and Management Research Line at Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Portugal. His research interests are Total Quality Management and Performance Measurement Systems. He serves as Associate Editor for Total Quality Management and Business Excellence Journal. He has received many scientific awards (e.g. Best Paper of the 49th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, 2019; the Outstanding Paper (best paper of 2016 in The TQM Journal) of the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence). He is co-author of more than 80 indexed (e.g. WoS, SCOPUS) publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He has more than 1700 Google Scholar citations, and more than 600 Scopus citations (Scopus h-index = 14). He has coordinated the creation of a Master course in Quality Engineering and Management and was the Course Director during the first four editions. He has successfully concluded the supervision of three PhD candidates and more than 50 MSc students, He also participates in research projects. He is a member of scientific committees of several international conferences. Sergio Sousa has presented his research output in 41 international conferences and performed teaching mobilities in 14 universities outside Portugal.