João Miranda is Adjunct Professor (Nomination) at College of Technology and Management (Portalegre Polytechnics Institute, Portugal) and researcher in Optimization methods and Process Systems Engineering (PSE) at CERENA (IST/UL). He is teaching for about two decades in the Mathematics group (mainly: Calculus, Operations Research, Numerical Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Multivariate Analysis) and he is author of several papers in Optimization, PSE, and Education subjects in Engineering and OR/MS contexts. He is also interested to strength the referred subjects through proposals of international cooperation in multidisciplinary frameworks.