Abílio Pereira Pacheco is a research assistant at INESC Porto in the Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit where he works in FIRE-ENGINE – the only Engineering Systems project approved in MIT Portugal Program calls. He is a student of the Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management at FEUP with Professor João Claro as advisor, and he is “Assistente Convidado (Docente)” at FEUP (Universidade do Porto) where he teaches Economics and Management and Operations Management since 2012.In 2012, during the fall, he was a visiting student with the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. There, he worked with Professor Richard de Neufville, Ross Collins and Hèctor Fornés, and also took the courses “Science, Technology and Public Policy”, “System Dynamics”, “Engineering Systems Analysis for Design” and “Risk and Decision Analysis” with Professors Kenneth A. Oye, Anjali Sastry, John Sterman, Richard de Neufville and Mort Webster.He won two awards in recent years, a FEUP Merit Scholarship (2010) and an University of Porto Merit Scholarship (2012).He has an MSc in Services Engineering and Management (FEUP) completed in 2011, and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics (2009). Prior to returning to the University, he was a project manager and later a manager and director at Seara.com (2000-2006) of which he was a founding partner, and director of the Chip7 S.A. Corporate Business Division (2006-2008).