José Carlos Sá - Biography

José Carlos Sá (Professor) works at ISEP - School of Engineering. Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal, since 2016 in the Mechanical Engineering Department. In 2015 he was awarded the title of Specialist in Quality Management by the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. He has worked as a consultant in several companies (2004-2020) in the areas of occupational safety, quality management, lean and industrial engineering. He was Director of Production and Quality in a multinational company. He has supervised more than 30 master's theses of ISEP-IPP students and has more than 90 indexed publications (WOS+SCOPUS) in the fields of quality management, occupational safety, Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement. He presents h-index of 26 in Google Scholar (1966 citations) and 18 in SCOPUS profile (1019 citations). He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Technological Sustainability (Emerald) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering. He is also a member of the Review Board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI). In 2015, he became a Senior Member of the Order of Engineers. He is one of the three founders, of the International Conference on Quality Innovation and Sustainability (ICQIS), which is in its 5th edition.