Maria da Conceição de Andrade Silva (D012-79F9-34BC)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria da Conceição de Andrade Silva

Maria Silva is Full Professor at the Catholic University, Porto, Portugal. She has got aMSc degree in Management Science and Operational Research from Warwick University in the U.K and a PhD degree in Management Science from Aston University, UK, and the ‘aggregation’ degree by Portuguese Catholic University. She has co-authored more than 35 refereed academic publications in the efficiency and productivity analysis area, including applications of Data Envelopment Analysis. She has co-authored, various book chapters like in Cooper W. W. et al. (2004) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis and the chapter ‘DEA—The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis’, in The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth (H. Fried, et al. (eds), 2008 Oxford University Press). She has applied the DEA technique in various fields including schools, bank branches, water companies, retail outlets, primary health care General Practice units and hospitals. She has also been the leading researcher of 3 projects financed by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology, who resulted in the development of benchmarking websites for secondary schools and hospitals in Portugal, and is currently involved in a Cost project on the efficiency of justice and other financed projects in the area of education. She has been also involved in consultancy work and acts as Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis and is a former associate editor of Omega. She has been involved in several administrative roles in Católica Porto Business Schools like Management MSc director for 3 years, or president of the scientific council for 2.5 years, and she is currently Associate Dean For Research Innovation and Sustainability

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria da Conceição de Andrade Silva

Citation names

Silva, Maria
Portela, Maria
Silva Portela, Maria
Portela, MCAS

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: D012-79F9-34BC
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3525-2393

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Economics and Business

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/01/20 - 2015/01/21 Concluded	Administração e Gestão de Empresas (Título de Agregado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2004/01/10 Concluded	Investigação Operacional (Doctor of Philosophy) Aston University, United Kingdom "New insights on measuring bank branchesefficiency through DEA: Transactional, Operational and Profit Assessments”. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1997/09/01 Concluded	Investigação Operacional (Master) University of Warwick University House, United Kingdom
1994/07/30 Concluded	Administração e Gestão de Empresas (Licenciatura) Major in Não Aplicável Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/01 - Current	Full Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2013 - 2019	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/12/13 - Current	Organic Unit Sub-director	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

2015/09 - Current	Coordenação da especialização em BA do mestrado em gestão	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

2013 - Current	Conselho científico/técnico-científico ou orgão correspondente	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

2020/06 - 2021/09	Coordenação ou direção de centro de investigação, departamento ou equivalente	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

2018/09 - 2020/05	President of the Scientific Council	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2015 - 2018	Direção mestrado em Gestão	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/10/12 - 2025/10/11	Efficient Justice for All: Improving Court efficiency through EU benchmarking CA20131 Other Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal Maastricht University, Netherlands	Ongoing
2011/03 - 2014/07	Hospital Benchmarking (HOBE) 112232 Provided by PTCRIS: 112232	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2007/12 - 2010/07	DEAvesII - Internet Based Benchmarking of Portuguese Secondary Schools 68213 Provided by PTCRIS: 68213	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2005/06 - 2007/12	Assessment of Portuguese Secundary Schools through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Provided by PTCRIS: 60561 60561 82472 Provided by PTCRIS: 82472	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/02/01 - 2026/01/31	Benchmarking de Sistemas de Educação com Técnicas de Fronteira 2022.08686.PTDC 10.54499/2022.08686.PTDC Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal Argonne National Laboratory, United States	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023 - 2026	UCP4Sucess POCH-02-53I2-FSE-000012 Researcher Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal	Ongoing
2021/05/01 - 2023/04/30	Heritage Art, Creation for Climate Change - Living the City: Catalyzing Spaces for Learning, Creation and Action Towards Climate Change NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000067 Researcher Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal	European Regional Development Fund Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2020/01/01	EDUGest - Gestão escolar e melhoria das escolas EDULOG/EDUGEST/2019 Researcher Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal	EDULOG Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Conceição A. Silva; Helena Correia; José Alhinho; José Maria Gaspar. Métodos quantitativos aplicados à gestão: conceitos de otimização linear. Universidade Católica Editora - Porto. 2022. Published Maria Silva; José M. Gaspar; Maria Helena Gonçalves da Silva Correia. Métodos quantitativos aplicados à gestão. Universidade Cat{\'o. 2018.
Book chapter	Fabio Sartori Piran; Ana S. Camanho; Maria Silva; Daniel Pacheco Lacerda. "Internal benchmarking for efficiency evaluations using data envelopment analysis". In a review of applications and directions for future research, edited by Pedro Macedo; Victor Moutinho; Madaleno, { Mara, 143-162. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-29583-6_9 Antonio Peyrache; Maria Silva. "Efficiency and productivity analysis from a system perspective". In historical overview, edited by Chotikapanich, {Duangkamon, 173-230. Springer Nature, 2022. 10.1007/978-981-19-2023-3_4 Andrade e Silva, Maria C.; Camanho, Ana S.. "Using Data Analytics to Benchmark Schools: The Case of Portugal". In Data Analytics Applications in Education, 129-162. Auerbach Publications, 2017. 10.4324/9781315154145-6 Portela, Maria; Kristof de Witte; Jill Johnes; Geraint Johnes; Giannis Karagiannis; Maria Conceição de Andrade Silva. "Applications of Data envelopment analysis in Education". In Data Envelopment Analysis: A Handbook of Empirical Studies and Applications, 367-438. Springer, 2016. Published • 10.1007/978-1-4899-7684-0_12 Alves, Maria Emília Dias; Portela, Maria C. A. Silva. "Performance Evaluation of Parfois Retailing Stores". In CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences, 1-17. Springer International Publishing, 2015. 10.1007/978-3-319-20328-7_1 Castro, Ricardo A. S.; Portela, Conceição Silva; Camanho, Ana S.. "Benchmarking dos serviços dos hospitais portugueses: uma aplicação de data envelopment analysis". In Investigação operacional em ação: casos de aplicação, 703-740. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014. 10.14195/978-989-26-0738-2_20 Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Portela, Maria C. S.; Despic, Ozren. "Data Envelopment Analysis: The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis". In The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change, 251-420. Oxford University Press, 2008. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183528.003.0003 Maria Silva. "Cálculo do valor acrescentado no programa AVES". edited by Joaquim Azevedo. 2006. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Portela, Maria Conceição; Allen, Rachel. "Incorporating Value Judgments in DEA". In International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 99-138. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 10.1007/1-4020-7798-x_4
Conference paper	Alexandra Leitão; Leonardo Costa; Conceição Silva. "Climate action plans in Porto Atlantic Front municipalities: a comparison with the best municipal international practices". Paper presented in X Conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resources Economics, Barcelona, 2022. Published Maria Silva; Rui Sousa; Ana S. Camanho; Behrouz Arabi. "Testing the theory of performance frontiers in the era of Industry 4.0". 2018. Maria Silva; Ana S. Camanho. "The assessment of performance of educational services". 2016. 10.1007/978-3-319-32689-4_55 Maria Silva; Ana S. Camanho; Ricardo Castro. "Benchmarking dos Serviços dos Hospitais Portugueses: Uma Aplicação de Data Envelopment Analysis". 2013. Maria Silva; Emmanuel Thanassoulis; Mike Graveney. "Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP practices at Medical specialty level". 2012.
Journal article	Miguel Alves Pereira; Luiza Badin; Kristiaan Kerstens; Maria Conceição Silva. "An integrative approach to reviewing the literature on judicial efficiency in Europe". Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 98 (2025): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/47688. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.seps.2024.102137 Antonio Peyrache; Maria C. A. Silva. "The decomposition of efficiency in parallel network production models". Omega 127 (2024): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/45410. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.omega.2024.103084 Nuno Q. M. Lopes; Maria C. A. Silva. "Scale and scope economies in first-instance courts: Portuguese specialized vs non-specialized courts". International Review of Law and Economics 79 (2024): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/45876. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.irle.2024.106216 Rui Sousa; Ana S. Camanho; Maria Conceição Silva; Giovani J. C. da Silveira; Behrouz Arabi. "Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis". Journal of Productivity Analysis 62 1 (2024): 91-110. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44102. Open access • Published • 10.1007/s11123-023-00714-y Marina B. Sena; Leonardo Costa; Alexandra Leitão; Maria C. A. Silva. "The United Nations SDG13 and the EU27 countries performance: a comparative analysis". Environment, Development and Sustainability (2024): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/45579. Open access • Accepted • 10.1007/s10668-024-05057-8 Antonio Peyrache; Maria Silva. "Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies". Journal of Productivity Analysis 60 3 (2023): 273-294. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/4f06f941-cb42-4afd-888f-22bcbf742919. 10.1007/s11123-023-00690-3 Rosário Serrão; Maria Conceição Andrade E. Silva; Luísa Mota Ribeiro; Marisa Carvalho; Maria Luísa Vital. "Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions on Desired and Practised School Mission: Alignments and Misalignments". Leadership and Policy in Schools (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2023.2263785. 10.1080/15700763.2023.2263785 Ana Santos Camanho; Maria Conceicao Silva; Fabio Sartori Piran; Daniel Pacheco Lacerda. "A literature review of economic efficiency assessments using Data Envelopment Analysis". European Journal of Operational Research (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.07.027. 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.07.027 Dimitrios Georgios Sotiros; Vasco Rodrigues; Maria Silva. "Analysing the export potentials of the Portuguese footwear industry by data envelopment analysis". Omega 108 (2022): https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/05737a73-42c9-41d0-9f71-19938e5493af. 10.1016/j.omega.2021.102560 Fabio Sartori Piran; Daniel Pacheco Lacerda; Ana S. Camanho; Maria Silva. "Internal benchmarking to assess the cost efficiency of a broiler production system combining data envelopment analysis and throughput accounting". International Journal of Production Economics 238 (2021): https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/205227d7-cc35-4091-bff0-fd41f0fb7edc. 10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108173 Ribeiro, Luísa Mota; Cunha, Rosário Serrão; Silva, Maria Conceição Andrade e; Carvalho, Marisa; Vital, Maria Luísa; Luísa Mota Ribeiro; Rosário Serrão Cunha; et al. "Parental involvement during pandemic times: challenges and opportunities". Education Sciences (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/34108. 10.3390/educsci11060302 Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Silva, Maria C. A.; Podinovski, Victor V.. "Preface: International conference on data envelopment analysis—DEA40, 16–18 April 2018". Annals of Operations Research (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03564-1. 10.1007/s10479-020-03564-1 Ilídia Cabral; Maria Silva; Rosário Serrão Cunha; José Matias Alves. "School leadership practices of Portuguese principals". International Journal of Management in Education 14 5 (2020): 516-544. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/510a7a86-b66e-44aa-a322-dd977a51a9dc. 10.1504/IJMIE.2020.109696 Silva, Maria C.A.; Camanho, Ana S.; Barbosa, Flávia. "Benchmarking of secondary schools based on Students’ results in higher education". Omega (2019): 102119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2019.102119. 10.1016/j.omega.2019.102119 Arménio Rego; Maria Silva; Miguel Pina e Cunha. "Rankings das escolas". Nova Cidadania 67 (2019): 45-51. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/dd57e9f9-1049-4fb5-a2fb-9344c087d76c. Silva, Maria Conceição A.. "Output-specific inputs in DEA: An application to courts of justice in Portugal". Omega 79 (2018): 43-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2017.07.006. 10.1016/j.omega.2017.07.006 Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Silva, Maria Conceição A.. "Measuring Efficiency Through Data Envelopment Analysis". Impact 2018 1 (2018): 37-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2058802x.2018.1440814. 10.1080/2058802x.2018.1440814 Johnes, Jill; Portela, Maria; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel. "Efficiency in education". Journal of the Operational Research Society 68 4 (2017): 331-338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41274-016-0109-z. 10.1057/s41274-016-0109-z Emmanuel Thanassoulis; Maria Silva Portela; Mike Graveney. "Identifying the scope for savings at inpatient episode level: An illustration applying DEA to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease". European Journal of Operational Research 255 2 (2016): 570-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.028. 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.028 Portela, Maria Conceição A. Silva; Camanho, Ana Santos; Almeida, Diogo Queiroz; Lopes, Luiz; Silva, Sofia Nogueira; Castro, Ricardo. "Benchmarking hospitals through a web based platform". Benchmarking: An International Journal 23 3 (2016): 722-739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bij-07-2014-0067. 10.1108/bij-07-2014-0067 Silva, Maria. "Economic efficiency when prices are not fixed: disentangling quantity and price efficiency". Omega (2014): 10.1016/j.omega.2014.03.005 Silva, Maria. "Value and quantity data in economic and technical efficiency measurement". Economics Letters (2014): 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.04.023 Castro, Ricardo A. S.; Oliveira, Pedro N.; Silva Portela, Conceição; Camanho, Ana S.; Queiroz e Melo, João. "Benchmarking clinical practice in surgery: looking beyond traditional mortality rates". Health Care Management Science 18 4 (2014): 431-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10729-014-9266-2. 10.1007/s10729-014-9266-2 Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Silva Portela, Maria C.A.; Graveney, Mike. "Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP units at medical specialty level". Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 48 1 (2014): 38-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2013.11.001. 10.1016/j.seps.2013.11.001 Portela, M.C.; Camanho, A.S.; Keshvari, A.. "Assessing the evolution of school performance and value-added: Trends over four years". Journal of Productivity Analysis 39 1 (2013): 1-14. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84871967006&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s11123-012-0263-5 Thanassoulis, E.; Silva Portela, M.C.A.; Graveney, M.. "Estimating the scope for savings in referrals and drug prescription costs in the general Practice units of a UK primary care trust". European Journal of Operational Research 221 2 (2012): 432-444. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861097514&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.03.035 Portela, M.C.S.; Camanho, A.S.; Borges, D.. "Performance assessment of secondary schools: The snapshot of a country taken by DEA". Journal of the Operational Research Society 63 8 (2012): 1098-1115. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863468213&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1057/jors.2011.114 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Camanho, A.S.; Borges, D.N.. "BESP - benchmarking of Portuguese secondary schools". Benchmarking 18 2 (2011): 240-260. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955590053&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1108/14635771111121694 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.; Horncastle, A.; Maugg, T.. "Productivity change in the water industry in wngland and wales: Application of the meta-malmquist index". Journal of the Operational Research Society 62 12 (2011): 2173-2188. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80755127261&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1057/jors.2011.17 Khalili, M.; Camanho, A.S.; Portela, M.C.A.S.; Alirezaee, M.R.. "The measurement of relative efficiency using data envelopment analysis with assurance regions that link inputs and outputs". European Journal of Operational Research 203 3 (2010): 761-770. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449563016&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.09.002 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Camanho, A.S.. "Analysis of complementary methodologies for the estimation of school value added". Journal of the Operational Research Society 61 7 (2010): 1122-1132. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77953655513&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1057/jors.2009.85 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Malmquist-type indices in the presence of negative data: An application to bank branches". Journal of Banking and Finance 34 7 (2010): 1472-1483. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952668953&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.01.004 Khalili, M.; Camanho, A.S.; Portela, M.C.A.S.; Alirezaee, M.R.. "An improvement on the Tracy and Chen model a generalized model for weight restrictions in DEA". Journal of the Operational Research Society 61 12 (2010): 1789-1793. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78049233293&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1057/jors.2009.140 Camanho, A.S.; Portela, M.C.; Vaz, C.B.. "Efficiency analysis accounting for internal and external non-discretionary factors". Computers and Operations Research 36 5 (2009): 1591-1601. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-55749102848&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.cor.2008.03.002 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Comparative efficiency analysis of Portuguese bank branches". European Journal of Operational Research 177 2 (2007): 1275-1288. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33751026479&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.01.007 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Developing a decomposable measure of profit efficiency using DEA". Journal of the Operational Research Society 58 4 (2007): 481-490. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33947365110&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602166 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Malmquist indexes using a geometric distance function (GDF). Application to a sample of Portuguese bank branches". Journal of Productivity Analysis 25 1 (2006): 25-41. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-32944463764&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s11123-006-7124-z Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Zero weights and non-zero slacks: Different solutions to the same problem". Annals of Operations Research 145 1 (2006): 129-147. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33747821372&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10479-006-0029-4 Joaquim Azevedo; Maria Silva; Ana Camanho. "Análise do valor acrescentado de escolas portuguesas". Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional (2006): https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/e201ac24-17a8-4b02-b3b1-9eacd3517419. Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Profitability of a sample of Portuguese bank branches and its decomposition into technical and allocative components". European Journal of Operational Research 162 3 (2005): 850-866. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-9544244773&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.10.018 Portela, M.C.A.S.; Thanassoulis, E.; Simpson, G.. "Negative data in DEA: A directional distance approach applied to bank branches". Journal of the Operational Research Society 55 10 (2004): 1111-1121. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-5444254532&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601768 Silva Portela, M.C.A.; Borges, P.C.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Finding Closest Targets in Non-Oriented DEA Models: The Case of Convex and Non-Convex Technologies". Journal of Productivity Analysis 19 2-3 (2003): 251-269. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037242236&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1023/A:1022813702387 Thanassoulis, Emmanuel; Da Conceição, Maria; Silva Portela, A.. "School Outcomes: Sharing the Responsibility Between Pupil and School1". Education Economics 10 2 (2002): 183-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09645290210126913. 10.1080/09645290210126913 Silva Portela, M.C.A.; Thanassoulis, E.. "Decomposing school and school-type efficiency". European Journal of Operational Research 132 2 (2001): 357-373. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0035898987&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00157-0

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/12/06	DEA and other benchmarking methods applied to the public sector in Portugal	Tribunal de Contas
2024/05/21	From facts to Evidence - The need for reserach	Data Science Portuguese Association
2024/02/27	Moderadora do painel em talent Analytics	Fórum Porto de Economia Câmara Municipal do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/09/05	Efficiency Decomposition for Network Production Technologies – application to courts of law	University of Surrey
2023/04/19	Benchmarking international performance on climate change mitigation: an application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)	IAAE Annual Conference 2023 BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway)
2023/02/02	Best practices of Education Performance	European Institute of Public Administration
2022/10/04	he Value of Analysing Data: Data Analytics and Efficiency Analysis	Associação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção
2022/09/08	Teachers and parents: Agreements and dissonances on school mission	8th International Workshop on Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public Services University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)
2021/11/21	Analysing the export potentials of the Portuguese footwear industry with Data envelopment analysis	XXI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
2021/08/27	The value of analysing data: The particular case of efficiency Analysis	Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2021/08/27	The value of analysing data: The particular case of efficiency Analysis	IFORS 2021 (Seul, North Korea)
2021/06/08	Multi-Level Parallel Production Networks	69th Congress of the French Economic Association Université de Lille (France)
2021/06/08	Multi-Level Parallel Production Networks	Association Française de Science Economique Annual Congress 2021 (Lille, France)
2019/06/24	Analysing the export potentials of the Portuguese footwear industry by Data Envelopment Analysis: When the inefficient are the focus	EURO 2019
2019/06/14	Training program on Efficiency tools	Oxera
2019/06/10	The Inefficiency of production systems and its decomposition	EWEPA 2019
2019/06/05	Benchmarking of Secondary Schools based on Students' Results in Higher Education	7th International Workshop on Efficiency in Education, Health and other Public Services. (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/05/17	Benchmarking organizations: Lessons Learned, DEA, and Applications	University of Málaga
2018/06/24	Testing the theory of performance frontiers in the era of Industry 4.0	25th International Annual Conference of the European Operations Management Association (Budapest, Hungary)
2018/06/12	Network DEA models: what is the technology?	NAPW
2018/04/18	journal editors panel discussion	DEA40 (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2018/03/28	Teachers and Principals' perceptions of leadership results and styles: Results from a questionnaire applied to a sample of Portuguese Public schools	4th LEER Conference on Education Economics - Leuven, Belgium
2018/03	Teachers and Principals’ perceptions of leadership results and styles: Results from a questionnaire applied to a sample of Portuguese schools.	4th LEER Conference on Education Economics (Leuven, Belgium)
2018/03	The effects of Principals’ leadership in generating extra effort, efficacy and satisfaction of teachers: Portuguese teachers´ perceptions.	10th World Conference on Educational Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic)
2018	Os efeitos da liderança dos Diretores escolares no esforço-extra, eficácia e satisfação: Perceção de docentes Portugueses [The effect of the principals leadership on extra effort, efficacy and satisfaction: Portuguese teachers perceptions’].	Ciência 2018 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/06/26	Pitfalls in Parallel network DEA models	15th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis (Prague, Czech Republic)
2017/06/12	Output-Specific inputs in DEA: An application to courts of justice in Portugal	XV European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (London, United Kingdom)
2016/10/20	Using students' university scores to benchmark secondary schools: Is less more?	4th Workshop on Efficiency in Education (Milan, Italy)
2016/07/02	Input specific outputs in DEA: the case of Portuguese courts	DEA international conference (Nanjing, China)
2016/07/02	How to Publish in JPA	Hefei technical University
2016/06/15	Pitfalls in Parallel Network DEA models	NAPW (Quebec, Canada)
2015/07/12	A comparative analysis of the treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Episodes	Euro2015 (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2015/06/15	Output-Specific inputs in DEA	14th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (Heksinki, Finland)
2015/06/09	Effectiveness and Value Added in Portuguese Secondary Schools	Direção-Geral de Estatísticas da Educação e Ciência

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01 - Current	Efficiency evaluation of the budget allocation model of a federal institute of education, science and technology. Co-supervisor	Production systems and engineering (PhD) Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
2023/10 - Current	Efficiency analysis in the education context Co-supervisor	doctoral program in industrial engineering and management (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - Current	Business plan for Polyphenols as an ingredient for the Cosmetic industry Supervisor
2019 - Current	Business plan for Polyphenols as an ingredient for the Food industry
2023/07/07 - 2023/07/07	Trabalho remoto e o seu impacto na satisfação com o trabalho Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2023/02/22 - 2023/02/22	Courts performance : the case of Portugal Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2022/12/19 - 2022/12/19	An objective approach on well-being : case of OECD countries Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2021/07/01 - 2021/07/01	Perceções de pais, professores e alunos sobre a utilização de TPC como ferramenta de aprendizagem em Portugal Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2018 - 2021/02	Avaliação da eficiência económica dos sistemas produtivos a partir da utilização integrada da Data Envelopment Analysis e da Throughput accounting Co-supervisor	Production systems and engineering (PhD) Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - Campus de Porto Alegre, Brazil
2021/01/07 - 2021/01/07	Shadow schooling: an international comparative analysis using data from PISA Supervisor	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2019/10 - 2020/06	Market Opportunity Analysis of a Wax Ingredient for Cosmetic Industry Supervisor
2019/07/16 - 2019/07/16	Big Data Analytics como fator potenciador da compra de produtos online : os casos AliExpress e Amazon Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019/07/02 - 2019/07/02	Business analytics at APDL : the determinants of cargo tonnage Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019/07/02 - 2019/07/02	Benchmarking and analysis of store performance in a retail group Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Benchmarking and Analysis of Store Performance in a Retail Group Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Big Data Analytics como fator potenciador da compra de produtos online: os casos AliExpress e Amazon² Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Business Analytics at APDL: The Determinants of Cargo Tonnage Co-supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Market Potential of Yeast Beta-glucans in the Cosmetic Industry within the Alchemy Project Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Market Potential of Yeast Beta-glucans in the Cosmetic Industry within the Alchemy Project Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2018/07/11 - 2018/07/11	Data Analytics applied to Football and Football Players Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2018/07/03 - 2018/07/03	Analysis of the performance of students : the case of UP and UCP Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2018/07/02 - 2018/07/02	Context, enablers and results: a performance measurement framework for service sectors	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Data Analytics applied to Football and Football Players Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Analysis of the Performance of Students - The case of UP and UCP Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Context, Enablers and Results: A Performance Measurement Framework for Service Sectors Co-supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2017/07/17 - 2017/07/17	Measurement of a country brand : the Country Brand Strength Index Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2017/07/04 - 2017/07/04	Modelos DEA na análise da performance macroeconómica : o impacto da performance macroeconómica no IDE Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2017/07/04 - 2017/07/04	Segmentação dos postos de transformação e distribuição	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Segmentação dos Postos de Transformação e Distribuição Co-supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Measurement of a Country Brand. The country brand strength index Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Modelos DEA na Análise da Performance Macroeconómica. O Impacto da Performance Macroeconómica no IDE Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2016/12/06 - 2016/12/06	Global IQP index: ranking innovation, quality and productivity (IQP) performance at global level Supervisor	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2016/09/05 - 2016/09/05	Implementação de melhorias na área dos recursos humanos : avaliação de desempenho na farmácia Gaia Jardim Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2016/07/21 - 2016/07/21	Plano de marketing aplicado à Farmácia Comunitária: o caso da Farmácia Gaia Jardim Supervisor	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Global IQP Index. Ranking Innovation, Quality and Productivity (IQP) Performance at global level Co-supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Plano de Marketing aplicado à Farmácia Comunitária. O Caso da farmácia Gaia Jardim Co-supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Implementação de melhorias na área dos Recursos Humanos: Avaliação de Desempenho na farmácia Gaia Jardim Supervisor	Gestão de Serviços (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2015/11/02 - 2015/11/02	Modelação da Eficiência e Eficácia das Unidades de Saúde em Portugal – uma aplicação ao Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde Entre Douro e Vouga II – Aveiro Norte Supervisor	University of Porto, Portugal
2015/03/16 - 2015/03/16	Contributo para a Avaliação da Eficiência dos Tribunais Supervisor	University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Contributo para a Avaliação da Eficiência dos Tribunais Supervisor	Gestão (Master) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Modelação da eficiência e eficácia das unidades de saúde em Portugal Supervisor	Gestão e Economia de Serviços de Saúde (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2014/12/18 - 2014/12/18	Análise de não conformidades em projectos co-financiados pelo Fundo Social Europeu em escolas públicas portuguesas Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014/07/25 - 2014/07/25	Implementação de um sistema de gestão operacional: estágio numa empresa de seguros: Portugal Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014/01/07 - 2014/01/07	Ferramentas de apoio à avaliação de desempenho na DAT Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Análise de não conformidades em projetos co-financiados pelo fundo social europeu em escolas públicas portuguesas Supervisor	Gestão de Serviços (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Ferramentas de apoio à avaliação de desempenho na DAT Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Implementação de um Sistema de Gestão Operacional. Estágio numa empresa de seguros, Portugal Supervisor	Gestão (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Diagnóstico e desenvolvimento de metodologias de gestão de níveis de serviço de prestadores externos Supervisor	Gestão de Serviços (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Diagnóstico e desenvolvimento de metodologias de gestão de níveis de serviço de prestadores externos Supervisor	Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2012/09/12 - 2012/09/12	Alguns fatores determinantes dos resultados obtidos pelos alunos do 9º e 12º anos nos exames nacionais de português e matemática e o efeito escola	Faculty of Education and Psychology, Portugal
2009 - 2009	Alguns fatores determinantes dos resultados obtidos pelos alunos do 9º e 12º anos nos exames nacionais de português e matemática e op efeito escola Supervisor	Ciências da Educação (PhD) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/06/18 - 2024/06/21	European Workshop on Efficiency and productivity Analysis - EWEPA 2024 (2024/06/18) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/06/27 - 2022/06/29	European Workshop on Efficiency and productivity Analysis - EWEPA2022 (2022/06/27 - 2023/06/29) Conference (Other)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/04/10 - Current	Participation in the Panel of the launch of the Católica Centre for Thriving Futures (CCTF), moderated by Wayne Visser	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2024/05/21 - Current	`From facts to Evidence - The need for research'. Invited presentation at the DSPA Insights 2024.

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/12/12	A Nova Era para a Gestão e Compreensão dos Dados (Thesis) Arguer	Ana Cristina Braga (Aggregation) University of Minho, Portugal
2023/06/06	Do social ao comercial – um roadmap para o estudo da culpa em marketing (Thesis) Arguer	Susana Cristina Lima da Costa e Silva (Aggregation)
2023/04/27	Alocação de Recursos em Gestão de Projetos: Tópicos Avançados de Alocação de Recursos (Thesis) Arguer	Anabela Pereira Tereso (Aggregation) University of Minho, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Making higher education in Portugal more inclusive (Event)	Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Member of the Extended Advisory Group Meeting: Feedback Meeting on the Directions for Policy for the TSI project on Making Higher Education More Inclusive in Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2023 - Current	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (External organisation)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal
2020 - Current	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (External organisation)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal
2020 - 2023	Coordenadora da comissão de avaliação de Bolsas de doutoramente da FCT do grupo de Economia e gestão durante 2020, 2021 e 2023 Coordinator	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021 - 2021	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (External organisation)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal
2017 - 2018	participação como avaliadora de bolsas de doutoramento da FCT painel de economia e gestão em 2017 e 2018 Evaluator	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2025/04/04	(schools' ranking suplement) Profissional vs. cursos científico-humanísticos: não há parente pobre!	Público
2024/12/09	`Da Ignorância à Evidência: A Importância da Ciência'	Jornal Económico
2024/07/12	Article in the Rankings suplement of Público 'Homegeneidade e desigualdade entre disciplinas	Público
2023/06/16	Panorama nacional da equidade. A grande diferença está em frequentar uma escola pública ou privada	Publico
2022/12/19	A missão da escola e a felicidade dos alunos	Jornal Económico
2022/06/20	A produtividade como medida de avaliação de desempenho	Público
2022/06/19	Europeus, ou uma espécie em vias de extinção	Jornal Económico
2021/12/22	Avaliar ou não avaliar: Eis a questão	Diário de Notícias
2021/11/08	Post truth: quando a ficção se torna realidade	Público
2021/06/20	Tempo, dinheiro e felicidade	Público
2021/05/21	Equidade nas escolas: Come medir e como agir?	Público
2021/03/15	Uma perspetiva sistémica para um problema complexo	Jornal Económico
2020/06/27	Sem exames a calibrar notas finais, equidade no acesso ao superior não está garantida	Público
2020/04/18	A escola, os exames e a pandemia	Público
2019/09/02	Data-based opinion making	Jornal Económico
2019/05/24	Shadow schooling: a Escola Sombra ou a Sombra da Escola	Observador

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2009/05/01 - Current	Journal of Productivity Analysis (0895-562X)	Springer Netherlands
2009/05 - Current	Journal of Productivity Analysis
2015/01/01 - 2018/03/01	Omega (0305-0483)	Elsevier B.V.
2015/01 - 2018/03	Omega

Distinctions

Award

2002	Won the prize for the best PhD student presentation at the International DEA Symposium in Moscow, Russia.
2000	prize for the best poster at North American Productivity Workshop in the Union College, Schenectady, New York, US.
1994	prize for having the best final grade on the 5 years course in Management at the Portuguese Catholic University.

Other distinction

2020	The paper `Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: Insights from frontier analysis' by Rui Sousa, Ana Camanho, Conceição Silva, Giovani J.C. da Silveira, Behrouz Arabi was one of the 3 finalists (among 38 papers) for the Best Paper Award at
2013	Certificate of Excellence in reviewing of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
2010	Best Reviewer Award of European Journal of Operational Research