Paulo Sampaio, Vice-Dean of the EEUM and professor at the Department of Production and Systems (DPS), is included for the second time in the “40 New World Voices of Quality” group.
The list “Fresh faces: a new generation of Quality Leaders” was published in the November edition of the Quality Progress journal of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). In 2016, the group included 46 worldwide individualities, aged under 40 years old, who already have a remarkable contribution to quality area. According to the publication, the highlighted individuals “lead the way in developing best practices and mentoring coworkers and students to adopt and promote quality processes and enhance value, with the goal of establishing quality as an essential element permeating decision making”.
To Paulo Sampaio, this nomination represents “a peer acknowledgment, for the second time, by the most significant worldwide entity in Quality, which is ASQ. It is also a sign of the EEUM’s international affirmation in this area, which makes me very proud”.
In November 2011, the EEUM’s researcher had already been nominated as one of the 40 New World Voices of Quality.
Paulo Sampaio completed his bachelor degree in Industrial Management and Engineering in 2002 and his PhD in Production and Systems Engineering in 2008, both at the University of Minho. He is a researcher at the Supply-chain, Logistics and Transportation Systems Group from the ALGORITMI Research Centre, developing his activity as professor and researcher in the areas of Quality and Organisational Excellence. He coordinates the ALGORITMI Working Group on Business Excellence and is also Country Counsellor at the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for Portugal. He is also a member of several organisations in the Quality research area, such as the Technical Standardisation Committee 80 – Quality Management and Quality Assurance, the Portuguese Institute for Quality, representing UMinho, the ASQ Influential Voices Group, the ASQ’s Feigenbaum Medal Committee, the ASQ’s Global Advisory Board and the Certification Forum of the Portuguese Institute for Quality. He has received several international awards for his work in his focus R&D area.
