Rafael Pires Miranda is an associate member at CEGIST and an invited teaching assistant at the Department of Engineering and Management (DEG) of IST. He earned his PhD degree in Engineering and Management at IST, with a final classification of “Pass with Distinction and Honour”. His PhD research, in a corporate environment within a collaboration between CEGIST and Siemens Healthineers, focused on "Developing Approaches for Continuously Monitoring and Evaluating Integrated Remote Care Interventions". He also holds an MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from IST. Rafael also gained professional experience as a Business Intelligence (BI) Developer at CUF Hospital Group (2018-2020) and at the Enterprise Services department of Siemens Healthineers Portugal (2021-2025).

Rafael's research interests encompass multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), value-based BI, and group work facilitation, with applications to health technology assessment and health policymaking. He authored 4 scientific publications in top “Health Policy & Services” journals and delivered oral presentations at several national and international scientific conferences. Additionally, he has supervised/guided 6 MSc students and teaches “Engineering, Decision, and Public Policies”, “Fundamentals of Operations Research” and “Introduction of Biomedical Engineering”, receiving the Excellence Pedagogical Award for two consecutive years. He won the ULisboa – redeSAÚDE 2024 Prize for Best Doctoral Work in the field of Health Systems / Entrepreneurship / Digital Transition and is one of the 12 finalists of the 2025 Três Minutos de Tese na Universidade de Lisboa competition.