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About Us

Mission

CEGIST, the Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico, is a multidisciplinary research unit integrated in an engineering school that aims to explore and reinforce the links between management science and engineering approaches to stimulate creativity in problem-solving. CEGIST core research is focused on five main areas: DECISion science and management engineerING (DECISING), Systems modelling and Methods of Operations reSearch And analytICs (MOSAIC), Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI), Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (OpLog) and SUSTainable solutions and Assessment for cIrcular ecoNomy Systems (SUSTAINS). 

Goals

CEGIST’s overall objective is to promote research opportunities associated with the development of knowledge, processes, tools, and methods required to make decisions and to shape public policies, to configure organizational structures and normative systems, to design engineering systems in sustainable patterns, and to solve problems associated with the information-intensive technology-based economy. Combining its different strengths, CEGIST manages and develops multi-diverse projects that aim to provide solutions and solve problems.

Direction Board
Advisory Board

Elena Fernández

Full Professor
University of Cádiz

Gregory Parnell

Professor of Practice
University of Arkansas

Heriberto Cabezas

Research Professor
University of Miskolc

Nilay Shah

Professor and Head of Department
Imperial College London

Roy Thurik

Professor
Erasmus University Rotterdam

News

Join the first edition of Start to Spark - the entrepreneurship challenge at Técnico that

As part of CEGIST's seminar series, we are proud to announce that Ali Abdelshafy (RWTH Aachen University) will present the work "Industrial Transformation and Climate-Neutral System: An Overview of…

Events & Seminars

Seminar
Alameda Campus, DEG Meeting Room and Online | to
As part of CEGIST's seminar series, we are proud to announce that Nicoleta Serban (Georgia Tech)…
Seminar
Alameda Campus, DEG Meeting Room and Online | to
As part of CEGIST's seminar series, we are proud to announce that Carolina Santos (Nova Health…