Joana Resende is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management of U.Porto and, since 2018, Pro-Rector for Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer at the same University. She is a member of the Board of Directors of U.Porto Science and Technology Park (UPTEC), the responsible for U.Porto Technology Transfer Office (U.Porto Inovação) and a member of the General Council of INESC-TEC (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science). From 2017-2020, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Cef-up (Center for Economics and Finance at University of Porto).
She holds a PhD in Economics and Management Science from Université Catholique de Louvain (joint degree with U.Porto). Her main research areas are industrial organization and digital economics. She is particularly interested in investigating business models and competitive dynamics allowed by new generation digital technologies. She has taken part in multiple national and international scientific projects. At the present moment she is the local Coordinator of the EUGLOH Alliance (funded by Erasmus + within the European Universities Initiave) and the EUGLOHRIA project (funded by H2020 Swafs). She is also the Principal Investigator of the project New Business Models in the Digital Age: Theory and Applications (funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation).
Her research has been published in leading international journals in economics, including The Rand Journal of Economics, Marketing Science, Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Information, Economics & Policy, Journal of Public Economic Theory. Over time, she has acted as consultant for both private and public entities, in the areas of competition policy, regulation and energy markets.
