Associate Dean at Católica Porto Business School (Research, Innovation, and Sustainability).
Aggregation by the Portuguese Catholic University in 2015, PhD in Management Science at Aston University (UK),in 2004, with doctoral thesis in the field of efficiency analysis using data envelopment analysis (DEA), with an application to bank branches.
MSc in Management Science and Operations Research at University of Warwick (UK), with a thesis on the analysis of efficiency through DEA applied to secondary schools. Degree in Management from Católica Porto Business School.
Researcher in the areas of productivity and efficiency analysis applied to various services (schools, banking, retail, universities, regulation, and health) collaborating with, Engineering Faculty of Porto, Aston University and an English Consulting company in this investigation.
Several articles published in international journals.
Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and former associate editor of Omega between 2015 and 2018.
Researcher in charge of three projects funded by FCT, two of which resulted in the construction of benchmarking websites for schools (BESP) and for Hospitals (HOBE). Full Professor at the Católica Porto Business School (CPBS), UCP since 2019.
President of the Scientific Council of FEG/CPBS from 2018 to 2020, and Associate Dean for Research and CEGE Director from June 2020 to May 2021.