Maria João Carneiro is Associate Professor in Tourism at the University of Aveiro (UA), where she works since 1993. At UA she is also member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism, as well as member of the Committee and Vice-Director of the Undergraduate Degree (Licenciatura) in Tourism Management and Planning. She has held various positions at the UA, in the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism – member of the Board (2010-2016) and of the Commission for the Subsystem for Quality Assurance of Course Units (2011-2014) –, related to PhDs – Vice-director of the PhD in Marketing and Strategy (2020-2022) –, to masters – Vice-Director and member of the Scientific Committee of the Master in Tourism Management and Planning (2007-2011) –, and undergraduate degrees – Director of the Degree (Licenciatura) in Tourism (2008-2014), Vice-Director of the Degree (Licenciatura) in Tourism Management and Planning / Tourism (2003-2008 and 2014 until now).

She is co-coordinator of edition of 9 books (including books of abstracts) and of 2 international journal issues, co-author of more than 260 publications, including 90 journal papers, more than 50 book chapters and 35 conference papers, mostly international and about 97 indexed in Scopus or Web of Science (having an h-index of 25 in Scopus, or 22 if excluding self-citations of authors). She is also member of the editorial board of the international journal Management Letters.

Across the years she participated in about 15 projects, including 5 funded by the FCT, 1 ERASMUS+ project and some funded by other organisations. In 4 of them, funded by the INATEL Foundation, she was principal researcher conjointly with another professor. In another, funded by the FCT – TWINE (Co-creating sustainable Tourism & WINe Experiences in rural areas) (2018-2022) (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032259), she was Co-PI.

She is also member of External Evaluation of study cycles appointed by A3ES.