Paulo Rupino da Cunha, PhD

Paulo Rupino da Cunha is Assistant Professor of Information Systems and  head of the Information Systems Group at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, as well as a visiting associate with Brunel University, UK. He holds a PhD (2001) and a MSc (1997) in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra.

He has been the Vice-President of the Board of Instituto Pedro Nunes, a non-profit association for Innovation and Technology Transfer, and of IPN-Incubadora, a Business Incubator. For three years, he was the elected coordinator of the Informatics Engineering Chapter for the centre region of Portugal of the Portuguese Engineering Association, and for a two year term he was a member of the executive committee of the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra.

His current projects look into the migration to service-oriented architectures, on methods to assist the design and evaluation of business models and supporting information systems, on approaches for the joint design of quality management systems and information systems to get more than the sum of the parts, and on the impact of service-oriented architectures on information systems governance.

Paulo is author of several papers presented at national and international conferences. He has integrated several organizing and science committees of national and international conferences. He is a member of the editorial review board of the International Journal of e-Collaboration and of the Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations.