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Elif Göksu Öztürk is an Assistant Researcher (tenure track) at the Centre for Organizational and Social Studies (CEOS.PP) and a Lecturer at Porto Accounting and Business School (ISCAP), part of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. She holds a PhD in Economics (2023) from the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP.UP). During her doctoral studies, she collaborated as a research assistant at INESC TEC, where she gained experience and expertise in the areas of Operations Research, Multi-objective Optimization Methods, Python Programming, and Information Systems. After completing her PhD, she pursued a postdoctoral position at the University of Minho, specializing in Environmental and Ecological Economics. Currently, she continues a master degree on Data Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). She has four years of experience teaching statistics, research methodologies, and semantic web to undergraduate and master’s students, and over eight years of research experience, focusing on the application of various methods and models, including machine learning, data science, optimization, econometric analysis, and multi-criteria decision-making in socio-economic and environmental contexts. She authored one doctoral thesis and 15 peer-reviewed scientific publications including, journal articles, book chapters and proceedings. Her research interests include Development Economics, Applied Economics, Environmental Economics, Multicriteria Decision-Making, Data Analysis, and Operations Research.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Elif Goksu Ozturk

Citation names

  • Ozturk, E. Goksu
  • Ozturk, Elif G.
  • Ozturk, Elif

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E815-014D-61C5
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8407-1871

Email addresses

  • elif@iscap.ipp.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP), Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Jaime Lopes Amorim, s/n, 4465-004, S. Mamede de Infesta, Mathosinhos, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Turkish Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/09/22 - 2027/07/30
Ongoing
 Data Science and Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/03/10
Concluded
 Economics (Doutoramento)
Major in Development Economics, Environmental Economics, GIS, Applied Economics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"New Directions in the Capability Approach: a further view on climate change, technology and poverty" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2016/12/21
Concluded
 Economics (Master)
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi, Turkey
"Health System Performance in OECD Countries: Data Envelopment Analysis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2016
Attended
 Economics (Erasmus +) (Mestrado)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2014/01/21
Concluded
 Economics (Bachelor)
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi, Turkey
 15
2012
Attended
 Economics (Eramus +) (Bachelor)
Uczelnia Techniczno-Handlowa im H Chodkowskiej, Poland
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/07/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais, Portugal
2024/04/15 - 2025/06/30 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2024/04/14 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal
2019/03/27 - 2022/10/31 Research Assistant (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2018/08/31 Research Assistant (Research) Centro de Economia e Finanças, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/16 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/09/18 - 2024/07/09 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/07/01 - 2024/06/30 Trees4Water
2022.06375.PTDC
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal
Concluded
2019/03/26 - 2022/10/31 Sectorization to Simplify and Solve
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031671
Research Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/01/03 - 2018/08/31 Centro de Economia e Finanças da Universidade do Porto
UID/ECO/04105/2019
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Economia e Finanças, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Cristina Lopes; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Ozturk, E. Goksu; José Soeiro Ferreira; Ana Catarina Nunes; Pedro Rocha; Cristina Teles Oliveira. "Parcel Delivery Services: A Sectorization Approach with Simulation". In Operational Research. APDIO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 437. Springer, Cham.. Springer, Cham., 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46439-3_9
  2. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Filipe Soares de Sousa; Maria Margarida Lima; Pedro Filipe Rocha; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Ana Catarina Nunes; Isabel Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira. "Developing a System for Sectorization: An Overview". In Operational Research IO 2021 - Analytics for a Better World, 129-141. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-20788-4_9
  3. Maria Margarida Lima; Filipe Soares de Sousa; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Pedro Filipe Rocha; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Ana Catarina Nunes; Isabel Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira. "A Resectorization of Fire Brigades in the North of Portugal". In Operational Research IO 2021 - Analytics for a Better World, 87-101. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-20788-4_6
  4. Romanciuc, V.; Lopes, C.; Teymourifar, A.; Rodrigues, A.M.; Ferreira, J.S.; Oliveira, C.; Ozturk, E. Goksu. "An Integer Programming Approach to Sectorization with Compactness and Equilibrium Constraints". In Innovations in Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-78170-5_17
  5. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Rocha, Pedro; Sousa, Filipe; Lima, Margarida; Rodrigues, Ana M.; Ferreira, José Soeiro; Nunes, Ana C.; Lopes, Cristina; Oliveira, Cristina. Corresponding author: Ozturk, E. Goksu. "An Application of Preference-Inspired Co-Evolutionary Algorithm to Sectorization". In Innovations in Mechatronics Engineering II, 257-268. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-09385-2_23
  6. de Sousa, Filipe Soares; Lima, Maria Margarida; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Rocha, Pedro Filipe; Rodrigues, Ana Maria; Ferreira, José Soeiro; Nunes, Ana Catarina; Oliveira, Cristina. "Dynamic Sectorization - Conceptualization and Application". In Innovations in Mechanical Engineering II, 293-304. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-09382-1_26
Conference abstract
  1. Zetzsche, Amanda; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Cristina Lopes. "Sustainable Finance in the EU: Macroeconomic Influences on Green Bond Issuance". Paper presented in International Conference on Organisational and Management Studies - ICOMS 2025, 2025.
    Published
  2. Ozturk, E. Goksu. "Tracking Socioeconomic Development: A Dynamic PCA-Based Approach to Country Classification Over Time". Paper presented in nternational Conference on Organisational and Management Studies (ICOMS2025), 2025.
    Published
  3. Rodrigues, Ana Maria; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Cristina Lopes. "A hybrid optimisation method for vehicle routing in a fleet of multi-compartment vehicles with controlled temperature settings". Paper presented in XXIV Congress of Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2025), 2025.
    Published
  4. Rodrigues, Ana Maria; Lopes, Cristina; Romanciuc, V.; Ferreira, José Soeiro; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Oliveira, Cristina. "Modelos Multiobjetivo em Problemas de Setorização (Multi-objective Models in Sectorization Problems)". Paper presented in XXIII Congress of Portuguese Association for Operational Research, Viseu, 2024.
  5. Emanuel Escobar; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Lopes, Ana Faria; Castro, Ana; CARVALHO-SANTOS, CLAUDIA. "SWAT supporting cost-effectiveness of riparian forests for river water quality improvement". Paper presented in International SWAT Conference & Workshops, 2024.
    Published
  6. CARVALHO-SANTOS, CLAUDIA; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Emanuel Escobar; Castro, Ana; Pascoal, Cláudia; Lopes, Ana Faria. "Trees4Water: Cost-effectiveness of Riparian Forest Buffers in Farmlands to Improve Water Purification". Paper presented in 5th Ecosystem Services Partnership Europe Conference - Linking Ecosystem Services and Nature-based Solutions for Transformative Change, 2024.
    Published
  7. Ozturk, E. Goksu; CARVALHO-SANTOS, CLAUDIA; Emanuel Escobar; Castro, Ana; Pascoal, Cláudia; Lopes, Ana Faria. "Trees4Water - custo-efectividade de cenários de floresta ripária para a melhoria da qualidade da água (Trees4Water - Cost-Effectiveness of Riparian Forest Scenarios for Improving Water Quality)". Paper presented in 3rd Encontro Nacional de Ecologia – Investigação ecológica ao serviço da conservação, 2024.
    Published
  8. Margarida Lima; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Pedro Rocha; Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Ferreira, José Soeiro; NUNES, Ana Catarina. "Resectorization Problems". Paper presented in EWGLA XXVI Location Analysis Meeting, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published • 10.48528/H2BK-V229
  9. Cristina Lopes; Lima, Maria Margarida; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Ana Maria Rodrigues; NUNES, Ana Catarina; Teles de Oliveira, Cristina; Ferreira, José Soeiro; Pedro Rocha. "Creating homogeneous sectors: criteria and applications of sectorization". Paper presented in 17th IFSC – Classification and Data Science in Digital Age, Porto, 2022.
    Published
  10. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Pedro Rocha; Lima, Maria Margarida; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira; Ana Catarina Nunes. "Building a Web-system for Sectorization". Paper presented in EWGLA XXVI Location Analysis Meeting, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published • 10.48528/H2BK-V229
  11. Ana Catarina Nunes; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Pedro Rocha; Lima, Maria Margarida; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Cristina Lopes; Teles de Oliveira, Cristina. "Dynamic Sectorization with time changing demand". Paper presented in XXVII EURO Location Analysis Meeting, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published • 10.48528/H2BK-V229
Conference paper
  1. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Zeynep Cansu Ayturan. Corresponding author: Ozturk, E. Goksu. "Life Cycle Impact Assessment and Economic Evaluation of Material Cutting Technologies". Paper presented in 5th International Conference on Energy & Environment: bringing together Economics and Engineering, 2022.
    Published
  2. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira. Corresponding author: Ozturk, E. Goksu. "Using AHP to deal with Sectorization Problems". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Rome, 2021.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Cláudia Carvalho-Santos; Emanuel Escobar; Ozturk, Elif G.; José Pedro Ramião; Ana Francisca Castro; Ana Faria Lopez. "Custo-efetividade da implementação de faixas de floresta ripária nas áreas agrícolas para a melhoria da qualidade da água (Cost-effectiveness of implementing riparian forest buffers in agricultural areas to improve water quality)". Paper presented in Encontro de Ciência 2024, 2024.
  2. Pedro Rocha; Rodrigues, Ana Maria; Cristina Lopes; NUNES, Ana Catarina; Ozturk, E. Goksu; José Soeiro Ferreira; Teles de Oliveira, Cristina. "Improving Pareto-Front convergence of PICEA-g An application to Sectorization Problems". Paper presented in IO2022 - XXII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2022.
  3. Pedro Rocha; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Cristina Lopes; NUNES, Ana Catarina; Ozturk, E. Goksu; José Soeiro Ferreira; Teles de Oliveira, Cristina. "Instance space evaluation for sectorization problems". Paper presented in IO2022 - XXII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2022.
  4. Cristina Lopes; Rodrigues, Ana Maria; NUNES, Ana Catarina; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Pedro Rocha; José Soeiro Ferreira. "Parcel delivery services: a dynamic sectorization approach". Paper presented in IO2022 - XXII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2022.
  5. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Filipe Sousa; Margarida Lima; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Ana Catarina Nunes; Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira. "Web-based Decision Support System for Sectorization". Paper presented in IO2021 - XXI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2021.
  6. Margarida Lima; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Filipe Sousa; Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Ana Catarina Nunes. "A resectorization of fire brigades in the north of Portugal". Paper presented in IO2021 - XXI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2021.
  7. Filipe Sousa; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Margarida Lima; Ana Catarina Nunes; Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira. "Dynamic Sectorization - Conceptualization and Application". Paper presented in IO2021 - XXI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Zetzsche, Amanda; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Cristina Lopes. "Sustainable Finance in the EU: Macroeconomic Influences on Green Bond Issuance". Int. Journal of Marketing, Communication and New Media (2026):
    Accepted
  2. Ozturk, E. Goksu. "A Multi-Dimensional Framework to Assess Sustainable Development: A Cross-country Analysis". Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (2026):
    Under revision
  3. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Silva, S. T.. "Capabilities and Innovation for Poverty Reduction in the Face of Climate Change". European Journal of Development Research (2026):
    Submitted
  4. Öztürk, E. G.; Lopes, A. F.; Escobar, E.; Castro, A.; Carvalho-Santos, C.. "Cost-effectiveness of riparian forest buffers in farmland for water quality improvement". Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2025): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2025.2544321.
    10.1080/09640568.2025.2544321
  5. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Cristina Teles Oliveira. Corresponding author: Ozturk, E. Goksu. "How to know it is ‘the one’? Selecting the most suitable solution from the Pareto optimal set: Application to Sectorization". Operations Research and Decisions (2024):
    Published • DOI: 10.37190/ord240111
  6. Ozturk, Elif G.; Pedro Rocha; Ana Maria Rodrigues; José Soeiro Ferreira; Cristina Lopes; Cristina Teles Oliveira; Ana Catarina Nunes. Corresponding author: Ozturk, Elif G.. "D3S: Decision Support System for Sectorization". Decision Support Systems (2024):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2024.114211
  7. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Paulo Guimarães ; Sandra Maria Tavares da Silva . Corresponding author: Ozturk, E. Goksu. "Building a Composite Index using the Multi-objective Approach: an application to the case of human development". Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (2024):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2023.101756
  8. Ozturk, E. Goksu; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Ferreira, José Soeiro. Corresponding author: Ozturk, E. Goksu. "A New Matrix Form Genetic Encoding to Design Balanced, Compact and Connected Sectorization Through NSGA-II". International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making (2023):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMCDM.2023.134132
  9. Cristina Lopes; Ana Maria Rodrigues; Valeria Romanciuc; José Soeiro Ferreira; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Cristina Teles Oliveira. "Divide and Conquer: A Location-Allocation Approach to Sectorization". Mathematics 11 2553 (2023):
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.3390/math11112553
Preprint
  1. Lopes, Ana Faria; Ozturk, Elif; Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia. "Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Framework for Interdisciplinarity - Assessing the economic viability of Riparian Forest Investments". 2025. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5112782.
    10.2139/ssrn.5112782
  2. Ozturk, Elif G.; Sandra Maria Tavares da Silva. "ICT and human development: an analysis of European Union countries". 2024.
Report
  1. Rodrigues, Ana Maria; José Soeiro Ferreira; Cristina Lopes; Teles de Oliveira, Cristina; NUNES, Ana Catarina; Ozturk, E. Goksu; Pedro Rocha. 2022. D3S - Decision Support System for Sectorization: A Tutorial. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10354.58569.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "New Directions in the Capability Approach: a further view on climate change, technology and poverty". PhD, 2023.
  2. Ozturk, E. Goksu. "Health System Performance in OECD Countries: Data Envelopment Analysis". Master, 2016.

Other

Dataset
  1. Ozturk, E. Goksu. Sectorization instances (created using normal and gamma distributions): The data includes 100 separate cases, each with coordinates, demand, and contiguity maps.. https://drive.inesctec.pt/s/NS47qnZEmYPwEQP.
Software
  1. Lopes, Ana Faria; Ozturk, E. Goksu; CARVALHO-SANTOS, CLAUDIA. "Shiny application for cost benefit analysis of reforestation investments". 1. Universidade do Minho. https://anenvironmentaleconomistsguidetor.shinyapps.io/ShinyApp_Trees4Water. 2025.
  2. Ozturk, E. Goksu. "D3S - Decision Support System for Sectorization". 0.1. Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência. www.sectorization.pt. 2022.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/11/18 Evolutionary algorithms: an introduction Seminar
Porto Accounting and Business School (ISCAP)
2025/11/12 How to Select a Research Methodology Seminar
Porto Accounting and Business School
2025/09/08 A hybrid optimisation method for vehicle routing in a fleet of multi-compartment vehicles with controlled temperature settings XXIV Congress of Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2025)
(Amarante, Portugal)
2025/05/30 Tracking Socioeconomic Development: A Dynamic PCA-Based Approach to Country Classification Over Time International Conference on Organisational and Management Studies (ICOMS2025)
(Porto, Portugal)
2025/05/28 Boosting Visibility and Citations Blended Intensive Programme - "Succeed in your Ph.D.: Without Losing Your Mind or Your Papers"
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais
2025/05/27 How to Publish without Losing your Mind? Blended Intensive Programme - "Succeed in your Ph.D.: Without Losing Your Mind or Your Papers"
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Centro de Estudos Organizacionais e Sociais
2025/05/06 Economic Perspectives on Ecosystem Services: An Introduction Seminar at Advanced Course "Ecosystem services: Tools and Applications"
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2024/11/13 How to Select the Research Methodology? Seminar
Porto Accounting and Business School
2024/11/12 Metaheuristic Methods Seminar
Porto Accounting and Business School
2024/01/10 Ecologic and Economic Perspectives on Ecosystem Services Seminar
Center for Molecular and Environmental Biology
2023/09 The Role of Reinforces Capabilities on the Triangle of Climate Change, Technology and Poverty 2023 Human Development and Capability Association Conference
Sofijski universitet Sv Kliment Ohridski (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2022/09/14 Building a Web-system for Sectorization EWGLA XXVI Location Analysis Meeting
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/06/03 Life Cycle Impact Assessment and Economic Evaluation of Material Cutting Technologies 5th ICEE: Bringing together Economics and Engineering
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/11/07 Web-based Decision Support System for Sectorization XXI Congress of Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2021)
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
2021/08/04 Using AHP to Deal with Sectorization Problems 4th European Int. Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale (Rome, Italy)
2021/07/14 How to know it is the one? A comparative study to select the most suitable solution among the Pareto optimal set of solutions 31st European Conference on Operational Research
Panepistemio Dytikes Attikes (Athens, Greece)
2021/07/02 Building a Composite Index using the Multi-objective Approach: an application to the case of human development 14th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ 2021)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School (Porto, Portugal)
2021/04/13 Building a Composite Index using the Multi-objective Approach: an application to the case of human development WIP Seminar
Centro de Economia e Finanças at Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/10/01 - Current Soft Skills in Recruitment Managers: Which are the Most Critical to Attract and Retain International Talent?
Co-supervisor
 Gestão das Organizações (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/11/01 - 2025/07/30 Evaluating Environmental Efficiency: A DEA-Based Analysis of Sectoral Contributions to GHG Emissions
Supervisor
 Finanças Empresariais (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/05/26 - 2025/05/30 Organization of Blended Intensive Programme, called "Succeed in your PhD: Without Losing Your Mind or Your Papers!" for PhD students. (2025/05/26 - 2025/05/30)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/09/30 - 2024/09/30 Research Open Day - An event designed to engage and support young researchers, featuring short talks on various perspectives of a researcher's career. The program included a poll on research-related topics, followed by a discussion of the results with participants. (2024/09/30 - 2024/09/30)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2022/06/28 - 2022/06/30 Co-organizer in Special Session: (SS10) Sectorization and Clustering. Peer-reviewer for one paper. (2022/06/28 - 2022/06/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/10/10 - Current Participation in the conference 3rd DataPOWWOW 2025
Conference
 3rd DataPOWWOW 2025
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2025/05/14 - 2025/05/16 Participation in the project proposal discussions together with several applied universities throughout Europe. European Consortium on Applied Research and Professional Education (CARPE2025)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/12/05 - 2024/12/06 Participation in the networking event for European funding opportunities European Cooperation Network Event (ECON’24)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2024/07/04 - 2024/07/05 Attendance in the conference
Conference
 23rd Eur. Conf. on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29 Poster presentation of Trees4Water project, together with a representative video and gamified experiments visualizing how trees can filter the soil and keep the water purified. European Researcher's Night
2023/09/11 - 2023/09/13 Paper Presentation; Paper Title: The Role of Reinforces Capabilities on the Triangle of Climate Change, Technology and Poverty
Conference
 2023 Human Development and Capability Association Conference
The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPS-BAS), Bulgaria

Sofijski universitet Sv Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria

Open Society Institute – Sofia (OSIS), Bulgaria
2023/01/23 - 2023/01/26 Attendance in the workshop.
Workshop
 Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/12/19 - 2022/12/20 Attendance in the workshop.
Workshop
 Empirical research with large datasets
Banco de Portugal, Portugal
2022/11/06 - 2022/11/08 Three poster presentations; Poster Titles: 1)Improving Pareto-Front convergence of PICEA-g An application to Sectorization Problems , 2)Instance space evaluation for sectorization problems, 3)Parcel delivery services: a dynamic sectorization approach
Congress
 XXII Congress of Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2022)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022/09/14 - 2022/09/16 Three abstract presentations; Abstract Titles: 1)Building a Web-system for Sectorization, 2)Resectorization Problems, 3)Dynamic Sectorization with Time Changing Demand
Conference
 EWGLA XXVI Location Analysis Meeting
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal

Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal
2022/07/19 - 2022/07/23 Abstract Presentation; Abstract Title: Creating Homogenous Sectors: Criteria and Applications of Sectorization
Conference
 17th IFSC – Classification and Data Science in Digital Age
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/06/28 - 2022/06/30 Paper Presentation in Sectorization and Clustering session; Paper Title: An Application of Preference-Inspired Coevolutionary Algorithm to Sectorization
Conference
 International Conference Innovation in Engineering (ICIE’2022)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/06/02 - 2022/06/03 Paper Presentation in Technology and Economic Challenges session; Paper Title: Life Cycle Impact Assessment and Economic Evaluation of Material Cutting Technologies
Conference
 5th ICEE: Bringing together Economics and Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2021/11/07 - 2021/11/08 Three Poster Presentations; Poster Titles: 1)Dynamic Sectorization - Conceptualization and Application, 2)A resectorization of fire brigades in the north of Portugal, 3)Web-based Decision Support System for Sectorization
Congress
 XXI Congress of Portuguese Association for Operational Research (IO2021)
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Portugal
2021/08/03 - 2021/08/05 Paper presentation and Session Chair in Operational Research and AI session; Paper Title: Using AHP to Deal with Sectorization Problems
Conference
 4th European Int. Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale, Italy
2021/07/11 - 2021/07/14 Paper Presentation in Approaches for Multi-objective Optimization stream; Paper Title: How to know it is the one? A comparative study to select the most suitable solution among the Pareto optimal set of solutions
Conference
 31st European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2021)
Panepistemio Dytikes Attikes, Greece
2021/07/02 - 2021/07/04 Paper Presentation in Applied Economics Session; Paper Title: Building a Composite Index using the Multi-objective Approach: an application to the case of human development
Conference
 14th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ 2021)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Católica Porto Business School, Portugal
2021/06/28 - 2021/06/30 Paper Presentation; Paper title: Integer Programming Approach to Sectorization with Compactness and Equilibrium Constraints
Conference
 International Conference Innovation in Engineering (ICIE'2021)
Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal
2020/07/15 - 2020/07/17 Attendance in the workshop organized by European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH).
Workshop
 A3C – Aging, Climate Change and Citizenship
2019/07/05 - 2019/07/07 Attendance in the conference.
Conference
 13th Annual Meeting of Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ 2019)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019/03/06 - 2019/03/07 Attendance on workshop on Capability Approach theory, and its fundamentals.
Workshop
 The Foundational Issues in the Capability Approach
Associatie KU Leuven, Belgium

Human Development and Capability Association, United States
2018/06/07 - 2018/06/07 Attendance in the workshop on economic growth in modern world.
Workshop
 Public Policies, Output Fluctuations, and Long-Term Growth
Centro de Economia e Finanças, Portugal

World Bank, United States

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/12 - 2026/01/18 Socio-economic Planning Sciences Elsevier

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - 2024 Human Development Capability Association Member
2021 - 2023 APDIO - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Operacional Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/11/12 - 2024/11/13 Member of the Scientific Committee at the 7th International Conference on Sustainability and Innovation, held at Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, Campus Jaboticabal, São Paulo - Brazil (Online) Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Jaboticabal, Brazil
2024/10/03 - 2024/10/05 Member of Programme Committee at 16th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) and the 24th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Information Systems (CAPSI) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2026 Erasmus + Mobility Research Grant (upcoming)
Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2025 Eramus + Mobility Research Grant: Attended Eka University of Applied Sciences (1 week)
Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2016 Eramus + Mobility Student Grant: Attended Católica Porto Business School (9 months)
Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2012 Erasmus + Mobility Student Grant: Attended Helena Chodcowska Uni. of Technology and Economics (5 months)
Erasmus Plus, Belgium