2011 – Organizing Committee do 4º Encontro do IJUP - Investigação Jovem na U.Porto, Universidade do Porto, 17-19 February 2010 (http://ijup.up.pt/)

2010 – Program-Chair of 36th EIBA Annual Conference, FEP, Universidade do Porto, 9-11 December 2010 (http://www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/eiba2010/)

2010 - Co-Chair of "Recent debates on poverty and inequality” - II Conferência em Memória de Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira, FEP, Universidade do Porto, 11 September  2010 (http://www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/lvf/)

2010 – Organizing Committee 3º Encontro do IJUP - Investigação Jovem na U.Porto, Universidade do Porto, 17-19 February 2010 (http://ijup.up.pt/2010/)

2009 - Co-Chair of "O que sabemos sobre a pobreza em Portugal” - Conferência em Memória de Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira , FEP, Universidade do Porto, 19 September 2009 (http://www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/lvf/) 

2009 - Co-Chair of iDEMi 09 – International Conference on integration of Design, Engineering and Management for innovation, Organized by FEUP, Universidade do Porto, 14-15 September 2009 (www.idemi09.com/)  

2009 - Local Organizing Committee of ICTPI09 - 12^nd Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Science, Technology and Knowledge Networks:  Long term strategies to face the financial crisis, Universidade do Porto, 13-14 July 2009 (http://www.ictpi09.org.pt/?pag=home)  

2009 - Chair of the ‘Hands-on’ Workshop on Social Network Analysis, FEP, Universidade do Porto, 20-21 February 2009 (http://www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/sna/index.html)

2008 - Organizer of the Short Course on Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation (11 February 2008, INESC Porto), speaker/lecturer: Marko Torkkeli (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland) 

2007 - Chair of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) 2007 Conference - 19th international conference, "Economic Growth, Development and Institutions - lessons for policy and the need for an evolutionary framework of analysis",1st - 3rd November, www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/eaepe2007

2007 - Organizing Committee of the 1st International Seminar on "Regional Innovation Policies", organized by CEDRES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto and co-organized by Napier University and Salzburg University, 22nd - 24th February, www.fep.up.pt/conferencias/regional2007

2007 - Co-Chair of the 14th International Product Development Management Conference, Jointly organized by FEUP and FEP, University of Porto, 10th - 12th June.

2005 - Organizing Committee of the 1st Iberian International Business Conference, Porto, 30 September 2005-Saturday 1 October 2005.

2005 - Organizing Committee of the "Plataforma para a inovação, exportação e competitividade na Universidade do Porto" , Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, 29 September 2005.

2005 - Organizing Committee of the International Workshop 'Multinationals, Clusters and Innovation: Does Public Policy Matter?' , Amarante, 29 April-1May 2005.

2004 - Local Organizing Committee of the 44th European Congress of the European Regional Science Association: Regions and Fiscal Federalism , Faculdade de Economia do Porto, 25 - 29 August 2004.

2004 - Organizing Committee of the II Jornadas de Economia do Ambiente, Mostra da Universidade do Porto, Pavilhão Rosa Mota, 18 - 21 March 2004.

2003 - Local Organizing Committee of the EUNIP (European Network on Industrial Policy) Conference, Faculdade de Economia do Porto, 18-20 September 2003.

2003 - 2006 - Coordinator of FEP Seminars.