Patricia Machado is a PhD student in Management. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. She is particularly interested in understanding how entrepreneurs secure funding for early-stage ventures through crowdfunding. Her teaching experience includes being a teaching assistant in the Introduction to Management and Strategy courses and supervising students’ master thesis in Strategy, at Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics.

2007 - MBA, Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics

2001 - Degree in Chemical Engineering - Biotechnology, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Problem-solving, Crowdfunding

Benoit Decreton (Ph.D.), Ilídio Barreto - Católica Lisbon SBE (Ph.D.)