Biography

José Coelho is an Associated Professor at Universidade Aberta, Department of Science and Technology, and is a Visiting Professor at University of Ghent (Belgium). He is a senior researcher at Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC-TEC), and collaborator in Laboratory for Distance Education (LEAD) and in Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC). He earned his PhD in 2004 in Systems Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico / Technical University of Lisbon (IST / UTL). He holds a master"s degree in Operational Research and Systems Engineering from IST / UTL since 2001. In 1995 he graduated in Computer Science and Computer Engineering by IST / UTL.

His main research activity is in the area of project management and scheduling, with interests in metaheuristics, e-learning and art & technology. He has a h-index of 17 in Google Scholar and 14 in Scopus, having three papers with more than 100 citations. He published and is a reviewer in several top journals, like Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research and Expert Systems with Applications.