Carlos Lopes Cruz is an experienced manager working in FMCG companies, where he developed strong managerial, leadership and strategic thinking capabilities. Holds a Ph. D. in Management - Strategy and Entrepreneurship from ISCTE-IUL. Carlos is an Associate Researcher at BRU-IUL and Guest Lecturer at ISCTE Business School and at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen in Germany. His research topic is Corporate Social Responsibility, with a particular interest in strategy implementation.

  Education       Academic part of Doctorate Program in Corporate Finance       Universidade Complutense de Madrid e Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, Spain       from October 2008 to July 2010. Final Grade Average: 7.5 points in 10       MBA specialized in Finance       UCP - Católica-Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal       from September 1996 to July 1998. Final Grade Average: 15 points in 20       Degree in Management (electives in Finance)       ISCTE-IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal       from October 1986 to July 1991. Final Grade Average: 16 points in 20           Work experience       Since 2001, ISCTE – IUL, Lisbon. Invited Lecturer of Corporate Finance and Markets, in undergraduate, master and post-graduate degrees, namely in courses of Project Evaluation, Capital Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Return and Solvency, Financial Calculation, Capital Markets, Bonds and Shares, Capital Structure and Funding, Finance in Marketing (mostly held in English and with a very strong component of case studying). Co-author in two finance books. Communication, writing and motivating skills and flexibility.       Since 2009, Analyst, as freelancer, of new business projects of Portuguese SMEs in several industries. Capital Budgeting, Project Evaluation. Investment decision maker and financial consultant. Critical thinking skills.       Investor and Manager of own portfolio of financial and real estate assets.       From 2002 to 2009, Founder and managing director of a small business in the tourism and events industry, managing a team of 10 employees. Strong customer relations. Business sold in successful performance momentum. Interpersonal, planning and organizational skills.       From 1991 to 2001, Banco BCP / Banco Mello / Fungest (currently Banco BPI) – Portuguese Investment Banks, Lisbon. Portfolio Manager of Mutual Funds and Pension Funds. Equity analysis, Fixed income analysis, Data analysis, Investment decision, Trading operations, Performance evaluation, Financial Marketing. Analytical, quantitative and forecast skills.          

João Henriques is a Visiting Professor at Iscte-IUL's School of Sociology and Public Policy, and  Sintra School of Social and Business Sciences. He has a PhD in Sociology at Iscte-IUL, funded by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology). His initial academic training is in the area of ​​Civil Engineering (Bachelor and Master), and later in Sociology (Master) and Data Analysis (Post-graduation). His master's and doctoral research topics focused on European identity and social cohesion in the EU. He is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) where he has participated in studies in various thematic areas, such as social inequalities, environment and sustainable development, social cohesion, education, employment, family and work, and communication fo science.

Since 2022, I am teaching at ISCTE Sintra - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, the courses of Graphs and Complex Networks, Calculus (with Python), and Applied Mathematics. In the period 2021 - 2023, I also taught at Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências de Lisboa, courses like Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science. I am an enthusiast of science and knowledge development, and my research goals are to join topics of mathematical modelling and civil protection and society in general.I am passionate about education and my drive is to allow everyone to learn and master any skill they desire, with the right direction and strength, and for some years I have been a volunteer in a social institution teaching Portuguese and mathematics to illiterate people.I have worked in data analysis, data visualisation, data science, problem solving, and research and interpretation of data. My professional drive is to use my analytical skills to find solutions in short amounts of time, whether it requires organisation knowledge, team-working, scheduling, management, programming, or innovation.I have worked as a researcher in a project implementing mathematical and computational techniques into biological data, specifically the evolution of viruses in terms of their mutations and virulence. Unfortunately, it did not help prevent the covid-19 pandemic, but certainly projects like those help improve the knowledge which led to the quick vaccination development.In terms of academics, I have a Ph.D. from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, which followed an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Lisbon in Portugal. The main focus of my doctorate research was to analyse automotive supply chains and develop a synthetic network creation model which could replicate the main features of real-life supply chains. The resulting model was quite accurate, and it permits managers to know with a high degree of certainty the structure of their supply chain, with just a few data points.Regarding my soft skills, Determination and Hard Work are two of the most important in my career. No path is easy and not only “geniuses can do it"... with passion and hard work, anyone can achieve their goals.

José Miguel Sales Dias holds a BSc (1985) in Electrical Engineering, a MSc (1989) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (both from IST-UTL, Portugal) and a PhD (1998) in Information Sciences and Technology, major in Computer Graphics and Multimedia (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), where he is Full Professor, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality, Ambient Assisted Living, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), AI, Data Science, Design Thinking and Operating Systems.. Past Invited Associate Professor at NOVA IMS teaching Human-Computer Interaction in Information Systems degree. Research is centered on natural and multimodal human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, ambient assisted living, and design thinking, targeting the digital inclusion of hearing and vision-impaired citizens and the elderly. Deputy Director of ISTAR, an R&D unit of ISCTE, and member of its Digital Living Spaces group . Appointed (2022) by the Rectory of Iscte, as member of the Board of Directors of AI4PA a Digital Innovation Hub in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for the Public Administration. Nominated (2022) by the Rectory of Iscte as a member of the Installation Commission of the Iscte School of Applied Digital Technologies in Sintra, Portugal. Member of the Provisional Scientific Commission of the same School. Coordinates the Degree in Software and Applications Development of this School. Nominated (2023) by the Rectory of Iscte member of the Steering Committee of the SocioDigital Lab for Pulic Policy, the Associate Lab that gathers 6 research units of Iscte. Has been involved in entrepreneurship initiatives. Regularly commissioned by the EU, Cyprus, and Portuguese Ministry of Economy for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author, or editor of 15 scientific books or journal editions, 23 indexed journal papers, 38 indexed book chapters, 171 other publications, workshops, or keynotes in peer-reviewed international conferences, and 71 in national conferences. Since 1992 participated or participates in 33 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP, H2020, Erasmus+), and 19 Portuguese (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT, SAMA, POAT,  DIH). Principal Investigator of 16 R&D projects. From 1998 to 2020, he raised more than 13.394.483,58 € of R&D funding to ISCTE, Microsoft, and ADENE, giving an average of 446.483/year in 30 years. Obtained 7 scientific prizes. Member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA, IEEE, editorial boards of several journals and of several IPCs of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech, Accessibility, and Ambient Assisted Living. Past member (2017-2020) of the Board of Directors of ADENE, the Portuguese Energy Agency, where he oversaw the Innovation Group, the Information and Communication Technologies Unit, the Quality Control Unit, and the Institutional and International Relations Unit. Past member (2018-2020) of the Board of Directors of MEDENER, the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management, which deals with energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources in the region. Past Director (2005-2016) of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and Natural HCI technologies of Microsoft Corporation, in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC), where he collaborated closely with global Microsoft software product groups (in the USA, China and Europe) and local teams of marketing, finance, human resources, IT, sales and services. Has been involved in entrepreneurship initiatives. Past President of ADETTI and ADETTI-IUL, ISCTE R&D centers. Past Vice-president of the GPCG, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Born on December 1st, 1961,  Happy father of two ladies and one gentleman.  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Dias2/  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-2695 https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=48Zq8ecAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT  

José Miguel Rodrigues is a statutory auditor and partner in Azevedo Rodrigues, Batalha, Costa e Associados, SROC. Activities developed include statutory audit activities in over 50 companies, due diligences and company evaluation. He is also a consultant of Prótotipo, Sistemas de Informação, S.A. where he is responsible for the design team of GERIR® (ERP) e DEFIR® (financial reporting software). Consultant of CBR - Consultoria e Investimentos for projects in the tax and management control systems areas. He was also non-executive administrator of Parpública – Participações Públicas (SGPS), S.A. from 2020 to 2024.    He teaches in several training actions of OROC (Ordem dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas) where he was a jury member of the Order's Admission Exam from 2015 to 2021. Lectures Corporate Accounting Project and Applied Management Control Systems in ISCTE and several other subjects such as financial and managerial accounting in other universities, companies and other entities in Portugal, Angola,Cape Verde and Mozambique. Author of the compilation "Sistema de Normalização Contabiística" and co-author of "As novas demonstrações financeiras - de acordo com as normas internacionais de contabilidade".

Patrícia Costa holds a PhD in Production and Systems Engineering (thesis in the area of statistics/psychometrics) from the University of Minho, a Master's degree in Mathematics - Teaching (thesis in the area of statistics/psychometrics) from the University of Beira Interior and a degree in Mathematics - Educational Training from the University of Coimbra. Her research focuses on Educational Assessment, Applied Statistics, Comparative Education and Psychometrics. She is an integrated member of ISTAR-IUL - Information Sciences and Technologies and Architecture Research Center. She has experience in teaching Statistics and Mathematics in Higher Education, research and providing technical support to policy makers at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission. She is the author/co-author of several scientific articles in international journals, book chapters and technical reports and has experience in organising international scientific events.

PhD in Accounting and MBA in Management, by ISCTE-IUL, Post-Graduate in Finance, by CEMAF-ISCTE and Graduate in Management, by UML. He is coordinator of Courses of Taxation, Business Taxation, Company Tax Management, Principles and Procedures of Tax Litigation and Taxation of Non-Residents. He is Director of the MsC in Management at ISCTE-IUL and Director of Post-Graduation in Tax Management at INDEG-ISCTE.

PhD in Management from the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, with research in information systems for operational risk management, Master in Statistics and Information Management from NOVA Information Management School, with research in Intelligent Agents and a degree in Management from the International University. In the academic area, he is an assistant professor at the Piaget Institute and an invited assistant professor at ISCTE and ESCS. He has carried out research in the area of management, with emphasis on the application of intelligent systems to management, having published dozens of articles in international journals indexed in SCOPUS and WoS. Professionally, he regularly collaborates with different consulting firms in the areas of management consulting and analytical models applied to decision-making. Previously, he coordinated the areas of Business Analytics, Operational Risk, Compliance, Fraud, Auditing and Money Laundering at SAS Portugal.

Diversified professional experience in multinational companies of the pharmaceutical, retail and technology sectors, holding the positions of Sales and Marketing Director. Strong skills in design, implementation and development of businesses and partnerships, in the opening of new sales channels and sales units. Experience in the design and launch of new products and integrated solutions for the business (B2B) and individual (B2C) segments. Doctoral Student in Management