Gulbenkian Chair Professor for the Impact Economy & Invited Full Professor, Nova School of Business and Economics; Professor MSO at Copenhagen Business School with special responsabilities; Academic Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures at Cornell University; Founder and President of Patient Innovation; Co-founder of PPL Crowdfunding; Principal Investigator of several research initiatives; Member of the Environment and Sustainability Board at EDP - Energias de Portugal.
Previously he was Associate Professor (with Habilitation) at the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics; Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at Católica-Lisbon; Academic Director of the LisbonMBA (a joint-venture in the collaboration with NovaSBE and MIT-Sloan); Director of CUBE - Católica Lisbon Research Unit in Business and Economics; Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship (jointly offered with IST and Carnegie Mellon University). He was also an International Faculty Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Project Leader for Creative Commons PT and Advisor to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
He received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; his M.Sc. in Operations Research and Systems Engineering and his licenciatura in Naval Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. He also completed some advanced training programs at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.