Tomás Ponce Dentinho has a Degree in Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1975-1980); Three years of the Agronomy course and two years of the Course in Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Lisbon (1976-1979); Master in Economics, specializing in Regional Economics, from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon (1985-1987), PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1990-1994). Postgraduate studies in Environmental Economics from the Harvard Institute for International Development (1999). He is a Professor at the University of the Azores since 1987.
He is a member of the Center of Applied Economic Studies of the Atlantic (CEEAplA), the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR), the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Portuguese Association for the Development of Operational Research (APDIO). He was President of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (2008-2015), Member of the Council of the Regional Science Association International and Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International (2011-2018). He is Chief Editor of the International Scientific Journal Regional Science Police and Practice since 2017. He also was the Director of the Regional Cooperation Research Program at SADF’s (2016-2022).
He has several scientific articles published in national and international journals with arbitration, in themes of regional economics, urbanism, operational research, environment, and agriculture. He made several communications at national and international scientific congresses, and he participated in more than a dozen conferences in Universities in Portugal, Spain, France, Netherlands, Colombia, China, Angola, Cape Verde, Egypt, and Timor.