Paula Tavares de Carvalho
Professora Auxiliar Convidada
Office D4.06
CV Summary

Invited Professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods Applied to Management and Economics (ISCTE Business School - IBS) and ISCAL (Management and Finance). Professor at IADE-Universidade Europeia. She coordinated the Master’s and Bachelor’s programs in Hospitality Management and served on the scientific council of ISEC Lisboa. Teaching in the fields of Management, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, and Data Analysis. Executive with senior management experience in multinational companies, having served as CEO, CFO, and HR Director, and participated in multicultural projects across European, Asian, and African markets with senior-level experience in the Hospitality and Tourism, Automotive, and Insurance/Reinsurance sectors, focusing on management, business strategy, continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, people development, talent retention, the circular economy, well-being, and active ageing.

PhD in Management, certified trainer, researcher at the BRU (Business Research Unit) at ISCTE, and visiting scholar at the University of Oxford; currently pursuing a postdoctoral research in Psychology/Management and Active Ageing.

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Psicologia - Portugal - Lisboa
Post-Doc Psychology/ Management and Active Ageing: emotions and wellbeing. 2026 - 2028
Harvard Medical School
Health - United States of America
Other type of qualification Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching Certificate 2026 - 2026
The population Ageing Institute - Oxford University
United Kingdom - Oxford
Post-Doc Academic Visitor 2023 - 2025
UNISF
Social Sciences and Ageing - Spain - Santiago de Compostela
PhD Certificate - USC do Programa de Doutoramento en Ciencias Sociais e Envellecemento, Envellecemento e Sociedade. 2024 - 2025
Learning Innov@tion Studio - ISEC Lisboa: Lisbon, PT
Portugal - Lisbon
Training Session Ative Methodologies (Online Teaching Methodologies) 2024
ENID-Teach: European Netwok in D-Flexible Teaching. Universidade Aberta.
Portugal - Lisbon
Technical Specialization Course Certified Professor for online studies at the university level. 2024
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
PhD Management 2022
Ed-Rom
Portugal - Lisbon
Other type of qualification e-Professor / e-Trainer (Moodle) certificate 2022
Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territorio
Turismo - Portugal - Lisboa
Post-graduation Tourism 2017
ISCTE Business School
Management - Portugal - Lisboa
Post-graduation Top Management in Hospitality and Tourism 2016
Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Economia
Portugal - Porto
Licenciate Economics 2005
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Advanced Program for Executives - Portugal - Lisboa
Post-graduation Marketing 2003
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Advanced Program for Executives - Portugal - Lisboa
Post-graduation Human Resources 2002
Research Interests
Finance Management and Human Resources Management, Strategy, Customer Satisfaction, Sustainability, Well being, Active Ageing and Ikigai, Circular Economy, Hospitality and Tourism, Agritourism.