Biography

Professor of Technologies and Information Systems at School of Hospitality and Tourism of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESHT/P.PORTO), Portugal.
President of Technical-Scientific Council of ESHT/P.PORTO, (July 2017 - July 2023); Head of International Relations of ESHT/P.PORTO and was Director of Department of Informatics and Mathematics of ESHT/P.PORTO (2016-2019).
Was member of coordination team of the Unit of eLearning and Pedagogical Innovation of P.PORTO (EIPP/P.PORTO) (February 2019 - March 2022).
PhD in Information Systems and Technologies by School of Engineering of University of Minho, since July 2015, with the thesis “Knowledge Model for crowdsourcing innovation brokers”.
Master in Industrial Engineering, since June 2006, and a Degree in Computer Science Engineering, since September 2000, all by School of Engineering of University of Minho.
Principal researcher of CiTUR – Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, since January of 2018. Member of the Coordinating Commission of CiTUR Polo - Coimbra since June 2018.
Researcher collaborator in the group of Information Systems and Technologies for the Transformation of Organizations and Society (ISTTOS) of the Algoritmi Centre of the University of Minho, since July of 2015.
Participant in several international mobilities for teaching with ERASMUS+ grants and for research with IACOBUS grants.
Founder and president of AIS Student Chapter of University of Minho (2010-2012), where organized two national competitions of case studies in Information Systems.
Member of AIS (Association for Information Systems) and of AIS Portuguese Chapter. Member the organization committé of several national academic seminars and conferences, reviewer of several international conferences and journals, and has over thirty scientific papers and scientific communications.