Paulo Sampaio
Professor of Quality and Organizational Excellence, University of Minho, Portugal
Born in Braga, Portugal, in 1978, he graduated in Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Minho in 2002 (5-year degree). He completed his PhD in Industrial Engineering in 2008 at the University of Minho. He began his career at the University of Minho in September 2000, as Junior Lecturer in the Department of Production and Systems of the School of Engineering. In the academic field, he had been lecturing courses in the fields of Quality and Organizational Excellence.
His research activities are developed under the Industrial Engineering and Management Research Line of the ALGORITMI Research Centre, within the Supply-chain, Logistics and Transportation Systems (SLOTS) Research Group.
Always privileging research and development for industrial applications, he has been participating in several R&D projects supported by Portuguese Institutions and under European funding programs, namely, INNOVCAR, 12 754 548,62 €; iFACTORY, 9 246 492,55 €; HMIExcel, 5 110 000,00€.
