Curriculum Vitae Maria Conceição Andrade Silva Portela October 24, 2012
Chapter 1 General Information 1.1 Biography Full name - Maria da Conceição Andrade Silva Portela Date of birth - 08/12/1970 Nationality - Portuguese Marital status - Married Institutional Address - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rua Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4169-005 Porto Home Address - Av. 25 Abril N. 1, 4520-161, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal Contact numbers: office tel. +351 226196200 (ext. 141), +351 935565567 (mobile), fax. +351 226196291 1.2 Academic Studies 2000 - Ph.D. at the Aston University entitled New insights on measuring bank branches efficiency through DEA: Transactional, Operational and Profit Assessments. Concluded in December 2003. 1996 - MSc in Management Science and Operational Research at the Warwick University, concluded in September 1997 with distinction. 1989-5 years course in Management at the Portuguese Catholic University concluded in July 1994 with final average of sixteen (16). 1
1.3 Additional studies 1999 - Attendance of some courses at a MSc in Management s Quantitative Methods at the ISEE (Instituto Superior de Estudos Empresariais) University of Porto: - Combinatorial Optimisation and Heuristics - with final mark of 19; - Multicriteria techniques - with final mark of 17. 1.4 Prizes for academic achievement 2002 - Won the prize for the best PhD student presentation at the International DEA Symposium in Moscow, Russia. 2000 - Won the prize for the best poster at North American Productivity Workshop in the Union College, Schenectady, New York, US. 1994 - Won a monetary prize for having the best final grade on the 5 years course in Management at the Portuguese Catholic University. 1.5 Professional Status 1.5.1 Teaching 2010 to present - Associate professor at the Portuguese Catholic University. 2004 to 2010 - Assistant professor at the Portuguese Catholic University. 1994 to 2004 - Teaching Assistant 1.5.2 Consulting Collaboration with Fundação Manuel Leão since 2002 in the AVES (Avaliação de Escolas com Secundário) programme. This collaboration consisted in consultancy regarding the assessment of the value added of Portuguese schools. Collaboration with Oxera, a consulting company in the UK, since December 2006 on the analysis of productivity change in the water industry in England and Wales. Collaboration with Prof. Emmanuel Thanssoulis (Aston University, UK) on a project evaluating the efficiency of primary care units of a primary care trust (PCT) in the UK. 2
1.6 Scientific and professional Affiliations Member number 728 of APDIO - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Operacional (Portuguese Operational Research Society), since 1995. Member number 13708 of The Operational Research Society, since January 1998 Member of PARN (Productivity Analysis Research Network) since 2001. Board member of the Euro Working Group (EWG EPA Efficiency and Productivity Analysis) since 2000. 3
Chapter 2 Research The main line of research is the development of performance evaluation models for organizations in different sectors of activity. Performance models have been created, using as a basis the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology, where both cross-sectional and panel data have been analysed. The main fields of application are so far: schools, universities, banks, primary care units, water companies, and retail stores. Within these fields of application substantial theoretical developments have been achieved. In particular models to deal with negative data, models that provide closest targets, models to compute profit efficiency, and developments on the use of Malmquist indices to measure total factor productivity change. 2.1 Scientific Production 2.1.1 Articles published in International Journals Has published articles in a variety of journals, the most important of which being: European Journal of Operational Research Society. ISI Impact Factor 1.627 Journal of Productivity Analysis. ISI Impact Factor: 0.543 Journal of the Operational Research Society. ISI Impact Factor: 0.839 Annals of Operations Research. ISI Impact Factor: 0.619 Computers and Operations Research. ISI Impact Factor: 1.366 Journal of Banking and Finance. ISI Impact Factor: 1.908 The list of the articles published so far is the following: 4
1. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Thanassoulis, E. (2001) Decomposing School and School Type Efficiency. European Journal of Operational Research, 132/2, pp. 114-130. 2. Thanassoulis, E. and Portela, M.C.A.S. (2002) School outcomes: Sharing the responsibility between pupil and school. Education Economics, 10/2, pp. 183-207. 3. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Borges, P.C. and Thanassoulis, E. (2003), Finding Closest targets in non-oriented DEA models: the case of convex and non-convex technologies, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 19/2-3, pp. 251-269. 4. Portela, M.C.A.S., Thanassoulis, E. and Simpson, G.P.M. (2004), Negative data in DEA: A directional distance approach applied to bank branches, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55, pp. 1111-1121. 5. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Thanassoulis, E. (2005), Profitability of a sample of Portuguese bank branches and its decomposition into technical and allocative components, European Journal of Operational Research, 162/3, pp. 850-866. 6. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Thanassoulis, E. (2006), Malmquist indexes using a geometric distance function(gdf). Application to a sample of Portuguese bank branches, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 25, pp.25-41. 7. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Thanassoulis, E. (2006), Zero weights and non-zero slacks: Different solutions to the same problem, Annals of Operations Research 145/1, 129-147. 8. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Thanassoulis, E. (2007), Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Portuguese Bank Branches, European Journal of Operational Research 177, 1275-1288. 9. Portela, M.C.A.S., and Thanassoulis, E. (2007), Developing a Decomposable Measure of Profit Efficiency Using DEA, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58/4, 481-490. 10. Johnes, G., Camanho, A.S, and Portela, M.C.A.S. (2008), Assessing efficiency of Portuguese universities through parametric and non-parametric methods, Portuguese Journal of Management Studies XIII/1, 39-66. 11. Camanho, A., Portela M.C.A.S., and Vaz, C. (2009) Efficiency Analysis Accounting for Non-Discretionary Factors: The Assessment of Retailing Stores Using Data Envelopment Analysis Computers and Operations Research 36, 1591-1601. 12. Portela M.C.A.S., and Camanho, A., (2010) Analysis of complementary Methodologies for the Estimation of School Value-Added Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 1122-1132. 5
13. Khalili, M. Camanho, A. Portela, MCAS, Alirezaee M. R.(2010) The measurement of relative efficiency using data envelopment analysis with assurance regions that link inputs and outputs European Journal of Operational Research 203, 761-770. 14. Khalili, M. Camanho, A. Portela, MCAS, Alirezaee M. R. (2010) An improvement on the Tracy and Chen model A generalized model for weight restrictions in DEA Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 1789-1793. 15. Portela, M.C.A.S., Thanassoulis, E., (2010) Malmquist-type Indexes in the presence of negative data: An application to bank branches Journal of Banking and Finance 34, 1472-1483. 16. Portela, M.C.A.S., Camanho, A.S. and Borges, D. (2011) BESP - Benchmarking of Portuguese Secondary Schools, Benchmarking: and International Journal 18/2, 240-260. 17. Portela, M.C.A.S., Thanassoulis, E., Horncastle, A. and Maugg, T. (2011) Productivity change in the Water Industry in England and Wales: Application of the Meta-Malmquist Index, Journal of the Operational Research Society 62, 2173-2188. 18. Portela, M.C.A.S., Camanho A.S. and Borges, D. (2012), Performance assessment of secondary schools: the snapshot of a country taken by DEA, Journal of the Operational Research Society 63, 1098-1115. 19. Thanassoulis, E., Portela, M.C.A.S., and Graveney, M. (2012), 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, 432-444. 20. Portela, M.C.A.S., Camanho A.S. and Keshvari, A. (forthcoming), Evolution of performance and value-added of Portuguese Schools, Journal of Productivity Analysis. A Summary os the number of citations of the above listed papers is shown in Figure 2.1, which correspond to an h-index of 6. 2.1.2 Articles submitted to International Journals Portela, M.C.A.S., Thanassoulis, E., Economic efficiency when prices are not fixed 2.1.3 Book Chapters Thanassoulis, E, M.C.A.S. Portela, and R. Allen (2004), Incorporating Value Judgments in DEA In Cooper, W.W., Seiford, L.W. and Zhu, J. editors, Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. 6
Figure 2.1: Scopus citations in December 2011 7
Thanassoulis, E, M.C.A.S. Portela, and O. Despic (2008), Data Envelopment Analysis - The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis, In Fried, HO., Lovell, CAK., and Schmidt, SS., The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth, Oxford University Press, 251-420. Portela, M.C.A.S and Gerreiro, S. (2006) Cálculo do valor acrescentado no programa AVES, In Joaquim Azevedo (coord.) Avaliação de Escolas: programa AVES, Fundação Manuel Leão. 2.1.4 Articles published in Conference proceedings 1. Portela, Maria C.A.S. and Borges, P. and Thanassoulis, E. (2002) Efficient and Close Targets in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Proceedings of the International DEA Symposium, held in Moscow, Russia, between 24 and 26 June 2002. 2. Portela, M.C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, E. (2003) Comparative Performance Analysis of Portuguese Bank Branches proceedings of the Business Excellence 03, held in Guimarães, Portugal, between 10 and 13 June 2003. 3. Portela, M.C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, E.(2004) Malmquist Indexes using a Geometric Distance Function (GDF) proceedings of the 4 t h International Symposium of DEA, held in the Aston University, UK, between 05 and 06 September 2004. 4. Portela, M.C.A.S. and Camanho, A. S.(2009), Performance assessment of Portuguese secondary schools: The society and educational authorities perspectives, Proceedings of the Performance Measurement Association (PMA) Conference (University of Otago, April 2009) 5. Portela, M.C.A.S., Camanho, A.S., Fernandes, M., and Borges, D. (2009) BESP - Benchmarking de escolas secundárias Portuguesas, Proceedings of the IO2009-14 Congresso da APDIO ( 7-9 September 2009) 6. Portela, M.C.A.S., Thanassoulis, E., Graveney, M. (2010) Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Referral Costs in GP units, Proceedings of the Euroma 2010 ( 6-9 July 2009) 7. Romão, P., Portela, M.C., and Azevedo, J. (2011). Factores Determinantes dos Resultados Escolares dos Alunos e o Efeito Escola - Resultados nos exames nacionais do 12 ano, na disciplina de Português. XI Congresso Sociedade Portuguesa Ciências da Educação (2011). 8. Romão, P., Portela, M.C., and Azevedo, J. (2011). Factores Determinantes dos Resultados Escolares dos Alunos e o Efeito Escola - Resultados nos exames nacionais do 9 ano, na disciplina de Português. XI Congresso Internacional Galego-Português de Psicopedagoxia (2011). 8
9. Romão,P., Portela, M.C., and Azevedo, J. (2011) Factores Determinantes en los resultados de los alumnus en los examines nacionales de novena clase en la asignatura de Matematicas. Congreso Internacional sobre Mejora Educativa y Ciudadania Critica: recursos, estrategias y experiencias, Castellón de la Plana, Espanha 10. Portela, M.C.A.S. and Thanassoulis, E. (2012) Cost Efficiency when prices are not fixed: Disentangling quantity and price efficiency. Proceedings of the DEA Symposium 2012, Seikei University, Japan. 11. Thanassoulis, E., Portela, M.C.A.S, and Graveney, M. (2012) Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP practices at Medical specialty level. Proceedings of the DEA Symposium 2012, Seikei University, Japan. 12. Portela, M.C.A.S.(2012) O valor acrescentado nas escolas Portuguesas, Seminário Nacional AVES - September 2012 2.1.5 Articles published in National Journals Portela, M.C.A.S.(2000), Avaliação da Eficiência de Escolas Secundárias Inglesas: Abordagem de Decomposição de Eficiências Utilizando DEA, Investigação Operacional, 20, pp.3-20. Portela, M.C.A.S. and Camanho, A. S.(2006), Avaliação de escolas secundárias Portuguesas através de Data Envelopment Analysis, Rede2020, 2/1, p.5 (web journal without refereeing Process) Portela, M.C.A.S. and Camanho, A. S. and Azevedo, J.(2007), Análise do valor acrescentado de escolas secundárias Portuguesas, Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional, N. 5, 107-141 2.1.6 Working papers (not published in any journal) Portela, M.C.A.S. and Borges, Pedro (2001) Non-Radial Efficiency Measurement: A review and new insights for free disposal hull technologies, WP-01-001, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal. Portela, M.C.A.S., Camanho, A.S. (2007), Performance assessment of Portuguese Secondary Schools, Economics Working paper N. 07/2007, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (available on-line at http://ideas.repec.org/p/cap/ wpaper/072007.html). 9
Portela, M.C.A.S., Thanassoulis, Emmanuel (2008), A Circular Malmquist-Type Index for Measuring Productivity, Aston Working Paper RP08-02, Aston University Birmingham B4 7ET, UK. 2.1.7 Articles presented in International conferences The next list contains only presentations done by Portela, M.C.A.S. Presentations done by others are excluded from this list. In many of the conferences attended she acted as chair of one or more sessions. This information is not shown. 27-30/08/2012 - DEA2012, Natal, Brazil. Presentation of Economic efficiency measurement and technical efficiency measurement under non-standard conditions. 20-21/02/2012 - DEA Symposium 2012, Tokyo, Japan. Presentation of Cost efficiency when prices are not fixed: Disentangling quantity and price efficiency. 24-27/08/2011 - DEA2011, Thessaloniki, Greece. Presentation of Comparative analysis of referral and drug costs at the level of specialty: General medicine and geriatrics. 22-24/06/2011 - EWEPA, Verona, Italy. Presentation of Comparative analysis of referral and drug costs at the level of specialty: General medicine and geriatrics. 12-14/07/2010 - Euro, Lisboa, Portugal. Presentation of Performance Assessment of Portuguese Secondary Schools. 06-09/07/2010 - EurOMA, Porto, Portugal. Presentation of Comparative analysis of total referral costs in GP practices. 02-05/06/2010 - NAPW IV, Houston, USA. Presentation of Cost efficiency when prices are endogenous: price and volume efficiency. 22-26/06/2009 - XI EWEPA, Pisa, Italy. value-added os Portuguese schools. Presentation of Evolution of performance and 08-11/09/2008 - OR50, York, UK. Presentation of How to use assurance regions that link inputs to outputs in DEA models, and Productivity change in the water industry in England and Wales: An application of the Meta-Malmquist index. 24-27/06/2008 - Fifth NAPW, New York, US. Presentation on A Circular Malmquist-Type Index for Measuring Productivity. 10
08-11/07/2007 - Euro XXII, Prague, Check Republic. Presentation on DEAves - Evaluating the performance of Portuguese Secondary Schools through DEA. 27-30/06/2007 - X EWEPA, Lille, France. Presentation on DEAves - Evaluating the performance of Portuguese Secondary Schools through DEA, and The impact of Ofwat incentives on company performance. 25/09/2006-2nd Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, UCP, Porto. Presentation on DEAves - Evaluating the performance of Portuguese Secondary Schools through DEA. 27-30/06/2006 - North American Productivity and Efficiency Workshop - NAPEW Conference, New York, US. Presentation on Geometric Distance Function Profitability Index and its Components. 18/02/2006 - UK Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Network - UKEPAN Conference, Leicester, UK. Presentation on Geometric Distance Function Profitability Index and its Components. 11/07-15/07/2005 - IFORS in Honolulu, Hawaii. Presentation on Zero weights and non-zero slacks. Different views to the same problem?. 29/06-02/07/2005 - IX European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, in Brussels, Belgium. Presentation on Malmquist Indexes using a Geometric Distance Function (GDF). Discussant of the paper Does foreign presence boost the efficiency of domestic firms? by Victoria Kravtsova and Pierre Mohnen on the post conference workshop. 05-06/09/2004-4 t h International Symposium of DEA, at the Aston University, UK. Presentation on Malmquist Indexes using a Geometric Distance Function (GDF). 04-07/07/2004 - EURO XX 20th European conference on Operational research, in Rhodes, Greece. Presentation on Comparative Efficiency analysis of Bank Branches through Data Envelopment Analysis. 24-27/09/2003 - Eighth European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, in Oviedo, Spain. Presentation on Negative Data in DEA, a Directional Distance Approach Applied to Bank Branches. 06-10/07/2003 - EURO/INFORMS 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey. Presentation on Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Portuguese Bank Branches. 11
10-13/06/2003 - Business Excellence 03 in Guimarães, Portugal. Presentation on Comparative Performance Analysis of Portuguese Bank Branches. 08-12/07/2002 - IFORS 2002 in Edinburgh, UK. Presentation on A Decomposable Measure of Profit Efficiency - Application to Portuguese Bank Branches. 24-26/06/2002 - International DEA Symposium 2002 in Moscow, Russia. Presentation on Finding closest targets in non-oriented DEA models: the case of convex and non-convex technologies. 27/04/2002 - Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, at the University of Leicester, UK. Presentation on Developing a Decomposable Measure of profit Efficiency Using DEA. 25-29/09/2001 - Seventh European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Presentation on Developing a Decomposable Measure of Profit Efficiency Using DEA. 04-06/09/2001 - OR43 held at the Bath University, UK. Presentation on Comparative efficiency analysis of two bank branch networks of a Portuguese financial group: Some preliminary results. 27-29/03/2001 - Young OR12 held at the University of Nottingham, UK. Presentation on Comparative efficiency analysis of two bank branch networks of a Portuguese financial group. 15-17/06/2000 - North American Productivity Workshop and post conference workshop held at the Union College, Schenectady, New York, US. Presented a Poster An Approach to Non-Radial Efficiency Measurement in Free Disposal Hull Technologies. 28-31/10/1999 - Sixth European Workshop for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, held at the KVL in Copenhagen, Denmark. presented the paper Efficiency Analysis by Means of a Non-Radial FDH Approach. 16-26/08/1998 - ESI - Euro Summer Institute - DEA 20 years on, held at the Warwick University, UK. Presented the paper Decomposition of School and School Type Efficiency. 2.1.8 Articles presented in National conferences 17-19/03/2008 - IO 2008, Vila Real, Portugal. Presentation on Malmquist Indices in the presence of negative data: an application to bank branches. 12
09-11/10/2006 - IO2006, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal. Presentation on DEAves - Evaluating the performance of Portuguese Secondary Schools through DEA. 25-27/03/2002 - IO2002 held at the Minho University, Guimarães, Portugal. Presentation on Developing a Decomposable Measure of Profit Efficiency Using DEA. 16-19/04/2000 - IO2000 held at the Politechnical Institute of Setúbal, Portugal. Presented paper Efficiency Analysis by Means of a Non-Radial Free Disposal Hull (FDH) Approach. 29/11-02/12/1998 - IO1998 held at the Algarve University, Portugal. Presented the paper Avaliação da Eficiência de Escolas Secundárias Inglesas: Abordagem de Decomposição de Eficiências Utilizando DEA. 2.1.9 Coordination and participation in Public Financed Projects January 2011Coordinator of a three years project financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) on developing a benchmarking system for Portuguese Hospitals based on the internet (PTDC/EGE-GES/112232/2009). Research grant of 81024.00 Euros. IDMEC - Faculty of Engineering of Porto, also participates in this project. December 2007 - July 2010 Coordinator of a two years projected financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) on developing a benchmarking system for Portuguese secondary schools based on the internet (PTDC/GES/ 68213/2006). Research grant of 60000.00 Euros. Engineering of Porto. This project was done in association with IDMEC - Faculty of June 2005 - December 2007 Coordinator of a project financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) on assessing the efficiency of Portuguese secondary schools (POCI/EGE/60561/2004). Research grant of 42825.00 Euros. This project was done in association with IDMEC - Faculty of Engineering of Porto. 2.1.10 Private Financed Projects Participates in a project financed by an UK Trust on assessing the efficiency of General Practice units in the UK. This project is coordinated by prof. Emmanuel Thanassoulis at the Aston University in the UK. 13
2.2 Constitution of Scientific Teams 2.2.1 Supervision of PhD Thesis October 2011 - Supervision of the PhD thesis of Ricardo Castro (Phd program on Industrial Engineering and Management of Faculty of Engineering University of Porto), on benchmarking and performance evaluation of hospitals (Under Course). October 2010 - Supervision of the PhD thesis of Clara Mesquita (Phd program on Education Sciences of Faculty of Education and Psychology of Catholic University in Porto), on the evolution of Value added of Portuguese Schools over time (Under Course). October 2009 - Supervision of the PhD thesis of Paula Romão (Phd program on Education Sciences of Faculty of Education and Psychology of Catholic University in Porto), on the determinants of students achievements and the effect of schools on those achievements (Under Course). 2.2.2 Supervision of Visiting students Joint supervision with Professor Ana Camanho of Abolfazl Keshvari - a visiting PhD student at Faculty of Engineering of Porto (from November 2008 to August 2009). Joint supervision with Professor Ana Camanho of Masoud Khalili - a visiting PhD student at Faculty of Engineering of Porto (started in March 2008 and ended in August 2008). 2.2.3 Supervision of MSc Thesis Supervision of the MSc thesis of Joana Gradim for completion of the MSc in Services of Faculty of Economics and Management of Catholic University of Porto. (Under Course) Supervision of the MSc thesis of Tiago Marques for completion of the MSc in Management of Faculty of Economics and Management of Catholic University of Porto. (Under Course) Supervision of the MSc thesis of Maria Emilia Alves for completion of the MSc in Management of Faculty of Economics and Management of Catholic University of Porto. (Under Course) Supervision of the MSc thesis of Marcela Monteiro for completion of the MSc in Statistics of Sciences School of University of Minho. (Under Course) Supervision of the MSc thesis of Jorge Felix for completion of the MSc in Services of Faculty of Economics and Management of Catholic University of Porto. This thesis had a final grade of 17 out of 20 (completed in October 2012) 14
Joint supervision with Professor Ana Camanho of the MSc thesis of Ricardo Alves Castro Benchmarking de Hospitais Portugueses for completion of the integrated master s of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. This thesis had a final grade of 19 out of 20 (completed in July 2011). Joint supervision with Professor Ana Camanho of the MSc thesis of Diogo Nóvoa de Faria Martins Borges Schools Benchmarking Platform: Integrating performance evaluation models based on data envelopment Analysis for completion of the integrated master s of Computing and Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. This thesis had a final grade of 18 out of 20 (completed in July 2009). Supervision of the MSc thesis of André Jorge Ritta Branco de Sampaio The school effect, the student effect and the socio-economic effect within the context of performance analysis of the Portuguese secondary schools (in Portuguese) for the Master in economics of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Catholic University of Porto. This thesis had a final grade of 18 out of 20 (completed in March 2009). Joint supervision with Professor Ana Camanho of the MSc thesis of Joana Filipa de Magalhães Pinto Ribeiro Internet Benchmarking system for Portuguese secondary Schools (in Portuguese) for completion of the integrated master s of Computing and Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. This thesis had a final grade of 18 out of 20 (completed in July 2008). 2.3 Integration in the national and international scientific community 2.3.1 Editorship Associate editor of Journal o Productivity Analysis since May 2009. Editor of Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis since August 2012 Guest editor of a special issue for the Portuguese Journal of Management Studies on the theme of the 2nd Workshop for efficiency and productivity analysis - challenges for performance improvement in Education held in Portuguese Catholic University in Porto on 25th September 2006. 15
2.3.2 Invited presentations 21-09 -2012 - Seminário AVES - Qual o Valor acrecentado das escolas? - invited to present some results from the value added analysis performed under AVES. 02-05/09/2012 - Sustainability in Health and Education - SHE 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Invited for a workshop on Regulation in Education: Contribution of performance measurement to evidence-based research where the investigation carried out on the performance evaluation of Portuguese schools was presented. 27-30/08/2012 - DEA 2012, Natal, Brazil. Challenges and Opportunities. Invited to be a discussant on a panel about 20-21/02/2012 - DEA Symposium 2012, Tokyo, Japan. Co-author of invited keynote speech by Prof. Emmanuel Thanassoulis on Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP practices at medical Specialty level. 27/08/2011 - invited for discussant in a panel on Applying DEA in Practice: Opportunities for reaching users, does and don ts in selling DEA at DEA2011 that took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. 28-04-2011 - Invited talk on a seminar on management and innovation at schools, organised by SinAse, that took place in Torres Novas. Presentation of BESP- Benchmarking web site of Portuguese Schools. 06-01-2011 - Invited to be a commentator on the talk by Eric Hanushek on the Value added of schools and teachers, organised by FLE - Fórum para a Liberdade da Educação, that took place at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. 05-03-2010 - Invited to give a talk on Benchmarking e eficiência de escolas secundárias Portuguesas, Ciclo de seminários de Investigação CEFAGE, Universidade de Évora. 27-30/06/2007 - X EWEPA, Lille, France. Co-author of invited keynote speech by Prof. Emmanuel Thanassoulis on DEA - an approach to efficiency and productivity analysis. 03/11-04/11/2005 - Invited to give a talk on Some Recent Research issues on Data Envelopment Analysis. IV Seminario Multicriterio: Analisis de la eficiencia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. 16
2.3.3 Referee activity Refereed articles in several journals such as Investigação Operacional (Portuguese journal of Operational Research), Pesquisa Operacional (Brazilian journal of Operational Research), Notas Económicas - Of the Economics Faculty of Coimbra, Journal of The Operational Research Society, Telecommunications Policy, Annals of Operations Research, OMEGA, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Economics of Education Review, Computers and Operations Research, ITOR, Applied Economics, Decision Support Systems, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Operational Research: An International Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, International Transactions in Operational Research, emphoperations Research and Management Science. Other referee related information 2010 - Best Reviewer Award of European Journal of Operational Research. 2011 - Reviewer of a project for Academy of Finland 17
Chapter 3 Teaching 3.1 Courses Taught to the undergraduate Management course 1994-1995 Financial Mathematics 1995-1996 Operational Research and Production Management 1998-2000 Operational Research and Production Management since 2004 Quantitative Methods Applied to Management (course taught in English) since 2011 Operations Management (course taught in English) 3.2 Courses Taught to the undergraduate Psychology course since 2005 statistics applied to psychology 3.3 Courses Taught to the MSc in Service Management since 2009 Optimization and decision models in services (course taught in English) since 2009 Applied quantitative data analysis (course taught in English) 3.4 Pedagogical Publications Portela, M.C.and Correia, M.H., Métodos quantitativos Aplicados à Gestão. Manual de Apoio ao Aluno (about 200 pages). Portela, M.C.and Correia, M.H., Application exercices for MQAG. Document with 34 pages. 18
Portela, M.C.and Correia, M.H., Optimization and decision models in services, slides used in classes (about 100 pages) Portela, M.C.A.S, Statistics applied to Psychology, slides used in classes (about 100 pages) 19
Chapter 4 Knowledge Transfer 4.1 Intellectual property over software, methods and models Intellectual property exists on every method, model, and software developed within the published research outlined in 2.1.2. In addition, within the project DEAVesII (PTDC/GES/68213/2006) a internet platform (BESP - http://besp.mercatura.pt) was developed and is available online. This platform is described in detail in Portela et al. (2011) (see section 2.1.2). This platform is currently under the management of Catholic University in Porto and is detained by UCP in 50%, by IDMEC in 25% and by Mercatura in 25%. 4.2 Science and Technology Spreading 4.2.1 Organization of conferences and Workshops 2013 - Member of the Scientific Committee of XIII EWEPA 2013 - Helsinki. 2013 - Member of the Scientific Committee of DEA2013 - Samsun, Turkey. 2012 - Member of the organizing committee of the 4th Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Portuguese Catholic University, Porto, Portugal 2012 - Member of the Scientific committee of the DEA2012 - Natal, Brazil. 2012 - Member of the Scientific committee of the Sustainability, health and Education SHE2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2011 - Member of the Scientific committee of the XII EWEPA - The European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Verona, Italy. 20
2010 - member of the organizing committee of the EurOMA conference, to be held in Catholic University at Porto in June of 2010. 2009 - Joint organisation (with Professor Ana Camanho) of the 3 rd Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, that took place at the Portuguese Catholic University on the 25th September 2009. 2009 - Member of the Scientific committee of the XI EWEPA - The European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Pisa, Italy. 2006 - Member of the scientific committee of the IO 2006 - The bi annual conference organised by the Portuguese operational research society. 2006 - Joint organisation (with Professor Ana Camanho) of the 2 nd Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis: Challenges for performance improvement in Education, that took place at the Portuguese Catholic University on the 25th September 2006. 2004 - Joint organisation of the 4 t h International DEA Symposium that took place at the Aston University in the 5 t h and 6 t h of September 2004. 2003 - Organisation of a one day workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis that took place at the Portuguese Catholic University on the 22nd September 2003. 2003 - Joint organisation (with Professor Emmanuel Thanassoulis and Professor Barbara Casu) of the DEA cluster for the EURO/INFORMS that took place in Istanbul from the 06 July to the 10th July 2003. 4.3 Visibility of Research in the Media 13 October 2011 - Joint article (with Joaquim Azevedo) in the Público newspaper on page 4 of the school rankings supplement. This supplement on the rankings of Portuguese schools was done within a cooperative work between Público and Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where I was involved in proposing a methodology for contextualising schools. 19 October 2009 - Diário de Notícias Newspaper an article is dedicated to BESP - the schools benchmarking web site, and includes parts of a telephonic interview with me. 14 October 2009 - Cienciapt.net - an article is dedicated to BESP - the schools benchmarking web site. (details in http://www.cienciapt.net/pt/index.php?option=com c ontenttask = viewid = 100216Itemid = 357) 21
Chapter 5 University Life 5.1 Management and Administrative Tasks Responsible for the management of the web platform BESP since 2010, which involves contacts with schools and managing the interface between the university and Mercatura. Annual collaboration with Erasmus team on the task of ranking students applying to study abroad, since 2008. Elaboration of a proposal os a Doctor of Business Administration to be offered by FEG (October 2011) Member of the Scientific Board of FEG 5.2 Participation in Academic Defenses 5.2.1 PhD Defenses October 2012 - Examiner of the PhD thesis of Maria do Castelo Batista Gouveia entitled Efficiency evaluation with a DEA-MCDA method with incorporation of preferences and data undertainty, at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra.. September 2012 - Member of the CAT (Comissão Acompanhamento de Tese) of Thelma Ohira Rodini Luiz of Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL. July 2012 - Examiner of the PhD thesis of Jorge Alves Pereira Cerdeira e Sousa entitled Efficiency measurement in discrete choice models with and without strategic interaction, at Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto. 22
December 2010 - Examiner of the first year PhD Viva of Andreia Zanella on Environmental performance assessment to guide cities and countries towards sustainable development at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. October 2010- Examiner of the first year PhD viva of Vera Migueis on Improvement of service companies using data mining and data envelopment analysis models at Faculdade de Engenharia of Universidade do Porto; July 2010 - Examiner of the PhD thesis of Abdel Latef Anouze, on Banking efficiency in Gulf countries, at the Aston University, Birmingham, UK. September 2007 - External examiner of the PhD thesis of Mr Gurcharan Singh, from Malaya University, entitled Benchmarking the efficiency of Malaysian commercial banks: an empirical investigation (Comments sent by post). March 2007 - Examiner of the PhD thesis of Clara Vaz entitled Desenvolvimento de um sistema de avaliação e melhoria de desempenho no sector do retalho, at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. 5.2.2 MSc Defenses July 2012 -Examiner of two MSc thesis of the Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Industrial e Gestão of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, entitled: Análise e melhoria do processo de negócio de uma cadeia de retalho moda (Maria Inês C. Gomes) and Melhoria de processos na direcção de construção (Daniela Patricia A. Fontes). September 2011 - Examiner of the MSc thesis of the Service Management MSc of Faculdade de Economia e Gestão of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, entitled: Analise de Padrões de utilização de canais directos em serviços multi-canal of Ana Rita Meireles da Cunha Magalhães. July 2011 -Examiner of a MSc thesis of the Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Industrial e Gestão of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, entitled: Industry Survey in the Medical Technology Industry (Bruno Botelho). February 2011 -Examiner of two MSc thesis of the Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, entitled: Introdução ao Balanced Scorecard (André Ricardo Faria Machado); Parametrização de um ERP para implementação Lean na Produção (Carlos Manuel de A. Abreu da Fonseca). 23
November 2010 - Juri of the MSc thesis of the Mestrado em Gestão de Serviços of Roberto Filipe Dias Bessa e Meneses entitled O papel desempenhado por diferentes canais no suporte de processos de serviço multi-canal: O caso Optimus, at Faculdade de Economia e Gestão of Universidade Católica, Porto. November 2010 - Examiner of the MSc thesis of the Mestrado em Economia e Gestão Industrial of Nuno Monterroso entitled Análise internacional da eficiência productiva nos portos da peninsula ibérica utilizando a metodologia de DEA at Faculdade de Economia of Universidade do Porto. July 2009 - Examiner of four MSc thesis of the Mestrado Integrado em Gestão e Engenharia Industrial of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, entitled: The lean laboratory (Philippe de Oliveira Figueiredo); Total Flow na Industria no Kaizen Institute (Manuel Valentim Miranda de Loureiro); Desenho de um sistema de produção (Joel Fernando Monteiro Queirós); and Kaizen na Unidades Hospitalares (André Diogo Felisberto). March 2008 - Examiner of four MSc thesis of the Mestrado Integrado em Gestão e Engenharia Industrial of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, entitled: Análise de eficiência nos processos operacionais e melhoria no desempenho (Pedro Nuno barbosa Oliveira); Suply Chain enhancement na Quimonda AG (Pedro Azevedo menezes); Eficiência do sistema de produção na Faurecia (Josão António Gonccalves Luzia); and Projecto Lean Manufacturing aplicado á Injecção de Resinas na EFACEC AMT (João Borlido de Matos). 2005 - Examiner of the MSc thesis of Catarina Rodrigues entitled A avaliação do desempenho e a gestão estratégica: concepçãode uma balanced scorecard numa escola pública Portuguesa from Universidade de Aveiro. 5.3 Presentations in internal seminars at FEG 1999 - Joint presentation (with Professor Pedro Borges) of Introduction to DEA at the Portuguese Catholic University. 07/06/2002 - Presentation of Efficiency Analysis of Portuguese Bank Branches at the Portuguese Catholic University. 29/04/2003 - Joint presentation (with Professor Leonardo Costa) of Introduction to GAMS at the Portuguese Catholic University. 24