Luiz Brandão has been a professor at PUC-Rio since 2005 and at the Department of Industrial Engineering since 2016. He is a member of the concentration area of Operations and Business in Engineering, working in the research line of Business Management and operating in the area of Decision Analysis, Risk, Business Analytics, and Energy Economics. He holds a Post doctorate in Decision Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin (2003-2004), a Ph.D. in Production Engineering from PUC-Rio (2002), an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (1979), a Master’s in Civil Engineering from Stanford University (1977), and a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from PUC-Rio (1973).He is the leader of the CNPq research group NUPEI at PUC-Rio which conducts research and projects in the areas of Energy, Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnerships, Blockchain Economics, and Project Analysis under Risk, Uncertainty, and Flexibility. He was Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the Department of Administration from 2015 to 2021 and supervised the doctoral thesis that won the CAPES best thesis award of 2011.He holds a Level 2 Productivity Scholarship from CNPq, and a Scientist of Our State Scholarship from FAPERJ. He is an Associate Editor of the Decision Analysis journal, and a member of the editorial board of the Construction Management and Economics journal. He is currently an Associate Visiting Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, member of INFORMS, of the Real Options Group, and the Scientific Committee on Finance of ANPAD for 2024-2027.
History:
Visiting Associate Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin (2022-2024)
Visiting Professor at Katholische Universitat Eichstatt, K.U.E., Ingolstadt, Germany (2007 and 2009)
Post doctorate at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin (2003-2004)
Ph.D. in Production Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2002)
MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1979)
Master’s in Civil Engineering from Stanford University (1977)
Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from PUC-Rio (1973).