0000-0002-0750-8187 About
Álvaro Rocha holds the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa, Honorary Professor and Habilitation in Information Science. He earned a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, an M.Sc. in Information Management, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science.
He is a Full Professor (Professor Catedrático) at Lusófona University (Portugal), Honorary Professor at Amity University (India) and Private University of Fez (Morocco), and a Visiting Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (China), Rushford Business School (Switzerland), Brawijaya University (Indonesia), and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan). Additionally, he is an Invited Professor at the University of Calabria (Italy) and Israel Technological University (Ecuador).
He is also a Core Researcher at ISEG, University of Lisbon, and a Collaborating Researcher at RISE-Health | Research and Development. His main research interests include maturity models, management information systems, information systems quality, intelligent information systems, cybersecurity, e-government, e-health, and information technology in education.
He is Chairman of AMARITS Consulting and Chair of ITMA (Information and Technology Management Association). He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two journals: the World Journal of Information Systems and the Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (RISTI), both published by ITMA. In addition, he is the Scientific Manager of the Information Systems Engineering and Management book series at Springer Nature.
He has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme and as an Expert for several international research funding bodies, including the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme, COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research, the Latvian Ministry of Finance, the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico, the Polish National Science Centre, the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation, the Slovak Research Agency, and the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Innovation.
Álvaro Rocha is recognized among the world’s top 1% scientists by Stanford University, Elsevier and ScholarGPS. He has published nearly 150 papers indexed in JCR/SCI/SSCI/Scopus/SCImago journals, most of them in the first quartile, with more than 400 documents indexed in the Scopus database and almost 250 indexed in Web of Science. He is General Chair of WorldCIST – World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, and General Chair of CISTI – Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies.
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Researcher ID: http://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/O-3273-2013
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ResearchGate ID: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro-Rocha-3
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