Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and Information Systems. He earned his doctorate from Cranfield University (UK), and holds a degree in engineering and a master in equipment design from Coimbra University. His experience includes an operations engineer position in paper industry, teaching at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, at the Engineering School and both Business Schools of Porto and Lisbon, university management positions, as school senior associate dean, head of school and department, and consultancy experience in project evaluations. He has published several research papers in refereed academic journals, conference proceedings, books, practitioners’ journals and newspapers. His research interests focus on operations management, innovation, and sustainability.