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Our Team

The research team is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of scholars from innovation management, entrepreneurship, data science, healthcare, platforms, and bioengineering, including:

Nova SBE

Pedro Oliveira
Scientific Director of the Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Chair, Professor in Impact Economy at Nova SBE and at theCopenhagen Business School
Leid Zejnilovic
Deputy Scientific Director of the Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center, Assistant Professor at Nova SBE, and member of the Nova SBE Open User Innovation Knowledge Center
Maria João Jacinto
Executive Director of the Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center, Post-doc Fellow, and Executive Director of Patient Innovation
Anne Laure Fayard
Professor, Nova SBE
Benoit Decreton
Assistant Professor, Nova SBE
Miguel Pina e Cunha
Professor, Nova SBE
Rui Coutinho
Executive Director of the Nova SBE Innovation Ecosystem
Ricardo Silva
PhD Student, Nova SBE
Paolo Leone
Assistant Professor of Social Innovation, Nova SBE
Emanuel Gomes
Associate Professor with "Agregação"
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Carlota de Macedo Santos
 
Euclides Major
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Gemma Tria
Research Assistant
Miguel Alves Martins
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Gonçalo Cordeiro de Sousa
PhD Student
Alisson Avila
Nova SBE Innovation Ecosystem
  • Helena Canhão, Dean and Full professor, NOVA Medical School
  • António Camara, Entrepreneur and Full Professor, FCT-UNL, and Nova SBE
  • Ana Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, NOVA Medical School
  • Maria João Gregório, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Oporto University
  • Rute Dinis de Sousa, MSc, MBA, Epidoc, Nova SBE
  • Salomé Azevedo, PhD Student, Head of Digital Health at VOH.CoLAB
  • Margarida Oliveira, Research Assistant, Patient Innovation
  • Filipa Machado Vaz, Manager at Deloitte

 

The Nova SBE Open & User Innovation Knowledge Center will also benefit from the Advisory Board of the Patient Innovation Association, which includes two Nobel Prize laureates and well-known researchers, namely:

  • Aaron Ciechanover, Professor, Technion, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
  • Eric von Hippel, Professor, MIT
  • Katherine Strandburg, Professor, New York University
  • Lee Fleming, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  • Keld Laursen, Professor, Copenhagen Business School
  • Richard Roberts, New England Biolabs, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
  • Robert Langer, Professor, MIT; co-founder, Moderna
  • NOVA Medical School
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • EIT Health
  • Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
  • Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
  • Norwegian Research Council Research