José Rui Figueira

José Rui Figueira

Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
President Elect, The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making

José Rui Figueira is Associate Professor with Habilitation at IST (ULisboa) and researcher at CEG-IST. He also taught at Universities of Évora and Coimbra, and the Nancy’s School of Mines (where he got a Full Professor position in 2010). He is a former member of LAMSADE, INESC-Coimbra, LORIA and DIMACS research centers. Professor Figueira is the co-editor of the book, "Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys, Springer, 2016 (2nd Edition). He currently serves as a coordinator of the European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding. He is Associate Editor of JMCDA, member of editorials of EJOR and belongs to the advisory board of other scientific international journals. In 2017 he was awarded with the Gold Medal of the society