A policy and strategic management passionate with academic & professional expertise rooted in strategic planning, requirements engineering, designing & integration of user-oriented Product & service systems (PSS) as well as their life-cycle management. Keen on exploring Social Policy Entrepreneurship initiatives with an aim to deliver sustainable and circular solutions that may be well received by all of the societies’ stakeholders, including consumers, producers, and policy makers. Avid about employing my technical liaison and strategic management skills to complement the technological knowledge towards achieving optimum progression of projects, policy design/analysis, and subsequent life cycles of such solutions.
João Cortes is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Engineering and Public Policy.. Cortes has worked for 5 years in Data Science and AI Engineering for the European Central Bank, Deloitte Technology and the Portuguese Foreign Trade and Investment Agency. He has also worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Public Policy – Lisbon; at Nova SBE’s Economics For Policy Knowledge Centre and at the Office for Strategy and Studies of the Portuguese Ministry of Economics. In his part time, Cortes has also been invited to lecture on Econometrics for Financial Markets at ISCTE. João holds a Master’s Degree in Economics with a Major in Data Science from Nova School of Business and Economics, where he was part of the Nova SBE Fellowship for Excellence program.
Reyhaneh is an experienced socioeconomic, data statistics analyzer, and market analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the fields of industry, economics, education, and international commercial sectors since 2011. She received her Master’s degree in economic and social statistics from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. Her main research interests are technology, management, sustainability, industry, business data engineering, and healthcare. Reyhaneh has been collaborating on various R&D projects in industry and besides, she has experience as a lecturer at the Science & Art University in the field of statistics, computers, foreign Trade, and probabilities.
Maximilian Vieweg is currently pursuing a graduate degree in the Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on Artificial Intelligence Policy. He previously obtained a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST through the Erasmus Mundus master’s program Marine and Maritime Intelligent Robotics. Prior to that, he graduated from the Technical University of Vienna with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Brissa Acevedo holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Her undergraduate research focused on the adverse effects of shampoo, wastewater treatment, and renewable energy. Currently, Brissa researches community perceptions and impacts on regional decarbonization investments.
Diana Vieira Fernandes is a PhD student in Engineering and Public Policy at Instituto Superior Técnico and Carnegie Mellon University under the CMU Portugal Program. She holds a Law Degree and a Master’s in Law and Management (NOVA Law School and NOVA SBE). Her research focuses on secure, distributed electricity markets in low-voltage networks.
Afonso Amaral leads international alliances research at the Critical Technology Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on technology and manufacturing policy and regulation. His research specializes in advanced manufactured products, trade, innovation, and industrial mobilization strategies to address product shortages and crises. He co-develops an early warning mechanism for monitoring supply chain disruptions with the Chief Economist team at the European Commission’s DG GROW.
Rudolph Santarromana’s research focuses on the social, political, and regulatory challenges to deploying low-carbon technologies. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois, M.S from Instituto Superior Técnico, and finished his PhD in 2024 in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico, receiving an award for “Outstanding Dissertation”. Prior to starting his PhD, he worked on projects with several organizations including EDP Renewables, the United Nations, and grassroots advocacy organizations.
