Eugénio Ferreira has been, since December 2019, vice-rector of the University of Minho with the responsibility of research and innovation and chairman of the board of TECMINHO – Associação Universidade Empresa para o Desenvolvimento. He was a member of the General Council of the University of Minho (2017-2019). He held the positions of vice-president of the School of Engineering in charge of research, director of the Center for Biological Engineering, deputy director of DEB and director of the PhD courses in Bioengineering within the scope of the MIT Portugal Program.