Prof. Lucas Borges Leal da Silva

Prof Lucas Borges Leal da Silva, PhD

Assistant Professor

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Management Engineering Department

E-mail: lucas.borgesleal@ufpe.br

Short Bio

Lucas Borges Leal da Silva is assistant professor in Management Engineering at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Lucas holds his BSc in Civil Engineering (2017) at UFPE. There, he also holds his MSc (2019) and PhD (2022) in Management Engineering. He is research member at REASON Research Group and INSID – National Institute of Information and Decision Systems (insid.org.br). He is a member of the Risk Assessment, Uncertainty Analysis, and Natural Hazards Technical Committees from ESRA (European Safety and Reliability Association). He has been working on some strategic topics, focusing on multicriteria decision-making/aiding, project portfolio, and risk management related to natural hazards and climate change

Professional Address

UFPE, Center for Technology and Geosciences, Building of the Management Engineering Department

Av. da Arquitetura, s/n – Cidade Universitária | ZIP 50740-550

Recife (PE) – Brazil

Research Interest

Risk Management in Industrial and Natural Systems
Flood Risk, Climate Change and Emergency Management
Multi-Criteria Decision Making/Aiding (MCDM/A)
Quality Management & Productivity
Operations Research

1. University Degrees

BSc Civil Engineering (2017), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Master in Management Engineering (2019), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Ph.D. in Management Engineering (2022), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Post Doctoral Scolarship in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Unites States of America
- Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Gardoni, PhD.

2. Academic Positions

Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) (2024 to present).
Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) (2022 – 2024).
Adjunct Professor, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP) (2021 to 2022).
Researcher of the INCT-INSID, National Institute of Information and Decision Systems (2022 – present).
Researcher of the REASON UFPE, Research group on Risk Assessment and Modelling in Environment, Assets, Safety, Operations, and Nature (2019 – present).
Researcher of the CDSID UFPE, Center for Decision Systems and Information Development (2014 – 2015; 2017 – 2019).

– Courses taught: Maintenance and Reliability Engineering; Exploratory Data Analysis; Multicriteria Decision Support; Operations Management; Negotiation Processes; Health and Safety Engineering; Risk Management; Quality Management; Quality Engineering.

3. Publications

Main publications in scientific journals include: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Cities and Society, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety.
Books: Chapter books in Springer series of LNCS and LNBIP.

– Main Publications in international scientific journals may be seen in links to ORCID ; ResearcherID (Publons); and Scopus.

– Conference papers, technological products, and others may be seen in: Brazilian CV system

4. Conferences Communications & Meetings

Main Conference Communications in:

Annual INFORMS meeting
SRA annual meeting (Society for Risk Analysis)
ESREL conferences from ESRA (European Safety and Reliability Association)
Annual Conferences of the Brazilian Operational Research Society

5. Awards

2023 – Best Technological Product Award presented in VIII EPPGEP, ANPEPRO.
2022 – PhD Student Best Paper Award in VII EPPGEP, ANPEPRO.
2021 – Special Mention as finalist of PhD Student Best Paper Award in VI EPPGEP, ANPEPRO.
2021 – Honor Mention for the paper presented at PhD plenary section in VI EPPGEP, ANPEPRO.
2020 – Special Mention for the Decision Support System “MCDM Portfolio Analysis with c-optimal PROMETHEE via web” in V EPPGEP, ANPEPRO.
2019 – 6th Jean-Pierre Brans Award, for the best paper presented at PROMETHEE Days 2019, PROMETHEE Days Workshop.
2019 – Special Mention for the paper presented at PhD Section “Decision Models” in IV EPPGEP, ANPEPRO.
2017 – Academy’s Student Laureate Award in Civil Engineering, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

6. Other Professional Links:

Linkedin

Brazilian CV system

7. Contact

Phone: +55-81-99278-8322
E-Mail: lucas.borgesleal@ufpe.br