Academic appointments

• (2025-) Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Catholic University of Portugal.

• (2018-2025) Lecturer
  2024-25: FEUP, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management;
  2022-25: Catholic University of Portugal (CPBS and FFCS);
  2018-25: University of Minho, Dept. of Production and Systems.

Corporate positions

• (2022) Coordinator of the Data Science & Machine Learning Group at DTx CoLAB,, Portugal

• (2020-22) Senior Data Scientist at Central Logistics Division, Bosch Automotive Electronics, Portugal

• (2017-20) Ph.D. Researcher at Dept. of Logistics Innovation, Bosch Car Multimedia, Portugal

Honors & Awards

Academic

• 2024: MDS Best Paper Presentation Award at the 4th INSURE.hub International Conference on Innovation, Sustainability and Regeneration, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal.

• 2022: Logistics Excellence Award (Academy) awarded by the Portuguese Logistics Association (APLOG) to the project Data Intelligence and Analytics for Business Operations (DIABO) - see here.  

• 2021: (3x) Scientific Publication Award, Doctoral Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering (DPISE), University of Minho.
  (award to distinguish publications in Scopus/WoS-Q1 journals within the scope of the doctoral thesis of the Ph.D. program in Industrial and Systems Engineering)

• 2018: Best M.Sc. Dissertation Award in Systems Engineering, University of Minho.

• 2018: Best M.Sc. Student Award in Systems Engineering, University of Minho.

• 2017: EstudIO Award (Best Student Paper), XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Operational Research Association (APDIO), Valença, Portugal.

Pedagogical

• 2022-2024: (3x) Diploma of Recognition for Pedagogical Merit for the academic years 2020/21; 2021/22; 2022/23, by the School of Engineering, University of Minho. Awarded to lecturers with high pedagogical merit in teaching activities (top 10%).

• 2021-2023: (3x) Prize for Recognition of Teaching Merit, by the Industrial Engineering and Management Student Association, University of Minho. Awarded to the best teacher elected by the 1st year students of the M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management (Courses: Supply Chain Management; Stochastic Models in Operational Research).