Graduated and post-graduated in Psychology at the University of Porto, her PhD in Educational Sciences (FPCE-UP) integrated her experience and fieldwork (FEUP), as a teacher (FPCE-UP), and as a researcher in Higher Education (CIPES – Center for Research on Higher Education Policies).
With two Habilitations: in 2017 at the University of Minho in Psychology and in 2022, at the Univ. Europeia in Management.
She chaired the Executive Committee of 2 PhD, one in Management and another in Psychology. She was Dean of ESAI – Higher School of Real State Studies, and also President of the Board for Quality Assurance. She was Vice-Rector for Research, Quality and Academic Innovation at the Univ. Europeia.
Full professor at Univ. Lusófona, she is currently Pro-Rector for Research and Director of FCESE – Faculty of Economic, Social and Business Sciences (Porto) and Strategic Director of the School of Economic Sciences and Organizations (Lisbon).
She has extensive scientific work published in indexed scientific journals and is the author of several books in the areas of Management, Psychology and Education. Consultant on Higher Education policies, she has been working with POCH, DGEEC, A3ES, CNE, EUA, UNESCO and OECD.

Main Publications:

Candeias, T., & Dias, D. (2023). Wine Companies’ Profitability in the Old World: Working Capital’s Impact. Administrative Sciences, 13(8), 171. MDPI AG.

DIAS, D. (2022) Students strategies to survive the academic transition: recycling skills, reshaping minds, European Journal of Engineering Education, DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2022.2113368

DIAS, D., Soares, D., Carvalho, R. (2020). Designing learning outcomes in design higher education curriculum. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, online first

DIAS, D., Soares, D., (2018). Civic learning outcomes: a step towards an inclusive higher education. International Journal of Inclusive Education 22 (4): 360-374.

Sá, E.; DIAS, D.; Sá, M.J. (2018). Towards the university entrepreneurial mission: Portuguese academics’ self-perspective of their role in knowledge transfer. Journal of Further and Higher Education 42 (6): 784-796.

Main Projects:

S4F – Competências de Futuro? O valor e a eficácia de um Ensino Superior baseado em competências
2019 to 2021-08-31 | Contract Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER: PTDC/CED-EDG/29726/2017
Organization identifiers FUNDREF: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001871
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia: PT
Total funding amount EUR 237,301
Description S4F – Competências de Futuro? O valor e a eficácia de um Ensino Superior baseado em competências [S4F – Skills for the Future? The Value and Effectiveness of Competency-Based Higher Education] PTDC/CED-EDG/29726/2017  

GPS4Success: Identificação Precoce de Alunos em Risco de (IN)Sucesso no 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico
2018-01 to 2021-01 | Grant EDULOG (Porto, Porto, PT)
URL: https://www.edulog.pt/investigacao_projeto/5
GRANT_NUMBER: 5
Total funding amount EUR 237,151.13  

Learning Outcomes Da implementação à avaliação numa visão tripartida dos resultados das aprendizagens: IES, Estudantes e Empregadores
2016-01 to 2018-05 |
Grant A3ES – Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior (Lisboa, PT)
URL: https://www.cipes.pt/?q=node/2873
Total funding amount EUR 40,410

ACESSO, SUCESSO E INSUCESSO PERcursos estudantis no ensino superior público  
2014-11 to 2018-04 | Grant
A3ES _ Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superio (Lisboa, Lisboa, PT)
URL: https://www.fpce.up.pt/ciie/?q=content/acesso-sucesso-e-insucesso-percursos-estudantis-no-ensino-superior-p%C3%BAblico