Joana Resende
Senior expert · Vice-Rector

Joana Resende

Professor of Economics · U. Porto
Vice-Rector · U. Porto · PhD Economics & Management Science (UCLouvain / U. Porto)
Vice-Rector · U. Porto President · UPTEC Full Professor · FEP Member · EUGLOH Exec Board Integrated Researcher · CEFUP
Areas of expertise
Industrial organisation Digital economics Competition policy Behavioural economics Two-sided markets Energy regulation

Industrial organisation
for the digital era .

Vice-Rector at Universidade do Porto and full professor at the School of Economics and Management, working at the frontier of competition policy and digital markets.

Vice-Rector for Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Valorization at Universidade do Porto, and President of UPTEC — the U. Porto Science and Technology Park. Full professor at the School of Economics and Management (FEP), where she graduated top of cohort (18/20).

Research focus on digital economy business models, competition policy in big-data contexts, two-sided markets, and economic regulation in energy sectors. Recent papers on product personalisation and consumer profiling published in Management Science, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Consultancy work spans market analysis and regulatory parameter assessments for electricity, natural gas, transportation, and forest sectors across Portuguese and EU contexts.

Agregação
Economics, 2018
PhD
Economics & Management Science, joint UCLouvain / U. Porto (2009)
BA
Economics, U. Porto (1999–2004) — top graduate (18/20)
Now
Vice-Rector · U. Porto; full professor at FEP.

Academic governance and
digital-markets research .

Concurrent leadership at U. Porto and at the European Alliance for Global Health, alongside a focused research programme on competition in digital markets.

Universidade do Porto
Vice-Rector — Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Valorization.
Current
UPTEC
President — Board of Directors of the U. Porto Science and Technology Park.
Current
School of Economics and Management · FEP
Full Professor.
Current
CEFUP — Centre for Economics and Finance
Integrated Researcher.
Current
EUGLOH — European Alliance for Global Health
Member, Executive Board.
Current

What we are writing about .

Recent work on digital markets, personalisation, and competition in big-data contexts.

Recent
Product personalisation, profit-enhancing dynamics
Management Science
Recent
Consumer profiling in monopolistic contexts
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Recent
Two-sided markets and platform competition
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

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