Joana César Machado is Ph.D. in Management with a specialisation in Marketing from ISCTE‑IUL, Lisbon University Institute, with a dissertation about the Management of the Process of Change in the Name/logo in the Context of Brands’ Merger. She has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Oporto, and a Masters degree in Management of Commercial Operations from Católica Porto Business, with a dissertation about the Development of Corporate Identity. She received the prize for the best Master's student.
Joana is an Associate Professor at Católica Porto Business School, where she teaches and conducts research in marketing, brand management, and consumer behaviour. She is also a researcher at CEGE, an FCT‑funded research centre, and at CEGEA (the applied research centre of Católica Porto Business School).
She is also the chair of the scientific committee of the Academy of Marketing’s Brand, Corporate Identity and Reputation Special Interest Group and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Product & Brand Management.
She has published her research in several international scientific journals and books and participates regularly at international conferences.