
Lia Patrício
Member of the Board of Directors
Lia Patrício is a Member of the Board of INESC TEC, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, she, and she is scientific director of the Engineering and Public Policy area of the CMU-Portugal Program. Her research focuses on Engagement and Service Design and Innovation for Service System Transformation. She coordinated the project with the Portuguese Ministry of Health for the design of the Portuguese Electronic Health Record and she was Principal Investigator of the Service Design for Innovation Marie Curie - Innovative Training Network, and us currently leader of the WPs on citizen engagement and service design of the European projects POCITYF and DECODIT. She has also conducted research projects on the design of technology enabled services with the industry, from Energy, Healthcare, Banking, Transportation or Retailing. Lia Patrício is associate editor of the Journal of Service Research. She is Global Faculty Member of the Center for Services Leadership, Arizona State University and Academic Scholar at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. Her research has been published in the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Service Management, Design Studies, Energy Policy among others.
Publications
It's the moment of truth: a longitudinal study of touchpoint influence on business-to-business relationships
Cambra Fierro, J;Patrício, L;Polo Redondo, Y;Trifu, A;
2025
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN INTERACTIVE MARKETING
Incorporating the customer experience along different iterative cycles of service design
Sarmento, Teresa;Patrício, Lia;
2014
ServDes.2014 - Fourth Service Design and Innovation Conference
Improving Health Information Systems by employing a Service Design perspective
Jorge Teixeira;Lia Patrício;Raymond P. Fisk;Leonel Nóbrega;Larry Constantine;
2014
Integrating Management and Interaction Design perspectives for Service Design: The MINDS framework
Jorge Teixeira;Lia Patrício;Ko-Hsun Huang;Raymond P. Fisk;Leonel Nóbrega;Larry Constantine;
2015
Supervised Theses
Understanding the customer engagement and the value co-creation with Smart Energy Services
Luisa de Souza Gonçalves
D - 2019
UP-FEUP
Integration of the multidisciplinary contributions on Service Design for Innovation
Maíra Prestes Joly
D - 2019
UP-FEUP
Understanding and Mapping the Retailing Employee Experience: A Qualitative Study
Benedita de Castro Girão Sanches de Sá
M - 2019
UP-FEUP
Electric Mobility Services for Commercial Buildings
Bárbara Ramos Sobreiro
M - 2019
UP-FEUP


