Miguel Falcão is a researcher at the Centre for Management Studies at Instituto Superior Técnico (CEGIST). He earned his MSc in Biomedical Engineering from FCT (UNL) in March 2014. For his master's thesis, he collaborated with Centro de Investigação de Materiais (CENIMAT-FCT) to elaborate a business strategy to commercialize an electrochemical test strip for quantitative analysis of glucose concentration in blood and designed for the diagnosis and monitoring of diabetes mellitus. In February 2016, he enrolled in the postgraduate program in information management and business intelligence in health at Nova Information Management School in order to deepen his data science skills and expand his opportunities to work in the healthcare sector.

From 2014 to 2017, Miguel gained professional experience as a consultant in the financial sector. He started his professional activity as an analyst consultant at Capgemini focused on the conception, development, and implementation of Oracle business intelligence solutions for international financial groups. Between June 2014 and February 2016, he worked as an actuary at Mercer doing actuarial valuations of pension plans and post-retirement benefits for both multinational and large public firms in Europe. From March 2016 until September 2017, he worked in EY as an advisory consultant and part of the IT Risk and Assurance team. In December 2017, Miguel joined the Strategy Marketing Department of CUF Hospital group where he was responsible for developing marketing intelligence research and customer experience projects. From September 2022 to February 2023, Miguel worked as a consultant in IQVIA dedicated to marketing research analysis in the pharmaceutical industry.

In February 2023, he began pursuing a PhD in Engineering and Management at IST. His current research focuses on “Healthcare 4.0: Developing management science and analytics models and tools to support the design and implementation of genomic-related policies and services in Portugal”, under the supervision of Professor Mónica Oliveira and Professor Astrid Vicente. Additionally, he is mentoring one master's student and supervised one project from the curricular unit ”Introduction of Biomedical Engineering”.