Brief Presentation

Currently I am an Associate Professor at University of Porto and Research Project Manager at Inesc Porto (one of the main research and technology transfer institutes in Portugal). I have been involved in several R&D project contract with European Union and Portuguese public institutions and enterprises and also, I have been reviewer and evaluator of several international R&D Industrial projects and member of several scientific programmes committees.
I did my undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) in Electrical and Computers Engineering, graduating in 1988. I received a PhD in the area of collaborative planning systems in the context of networking enterprises from University of Porto in 2000.
I have been author of many articles in international journals and technical publications and also I have been active in preparing and participating in R&D projects involving industrial companies as well as I have been supervising several PhD and M.Sc research thesis.
My areas of research interest include topics in the domain of Business Process Engineering, Inter-firms Networks (Collaborative Operations Management, Alignment and Collaborative Business Process Management), Digital Manufacturing and industrial and Operations Management.