Besides his academic life Paulo Bárcia worked, in several occasions, as a consultant for REN (Rede Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.) developing and maintaining software for Optimization and Design of Power Systems Networks.

From 1975 to 1985 he worked fulltime for EDP (the Portuguese national power utility) as a systems engineer developing software for power systems management

1991- “Agregação”  in Mathematics and Operations Research - NovaSchool of Business and Economics 

1986- PhD in Systems Engineering - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Technical University.

1972- Master in Statistics and Operations Research - Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI).

1969- Bachelor in Mathematics, University of Lisbon.

Combinatorial Optimization and Discrete Mathematics. Optimization of Power Systems Networks.