Who
Pedro Arezes, whose full name is Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes, is an industrial engineer and holds a doctorate from the Universidade do Minho, where he works as a full professor at the School of Engineering.
Current position
Rector of the University of Minho for the term 2025-2029. He was elected on October 31, 2025 and took office on December 3 of the same year, according to the note published by the services of the university itself.
His exercise of office is recorded in the Diário da República: the Dispatch n.º 798/2026, published in the 2nd series, n.º 16, of January 23, 2026, he signs it as Reitor on January 15, 2026.
He retains his position as a full professor at the School of Engineering.
Career
He was dean of the School of Engineering at the Universidade do Minho, a position to which he was appointed in 2019.
Work areas
Ergonomics and human factors, industrial and systems engineering.
Academic production
His academic output is registered in Ciência Vitae, the Portuguese research curriculum platform, which is a self-declaration repository and not an audited registry.
What has not been verified
This profile does not list him as the director of any international program as his current position: the specific page that listed this information returns an error, and it is unclear whether he retained this position after his election as rector. It also does not include details of his research, which are only available from non-institutional sources.
