Miguel received both a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Policy and Management and a M.Sc. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Associate Professor of Information Systems and Management at Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics. He is also a visiting research scientist at the Heinz College from Carnegie Mellon University.

Miguel's work has been accepted for publication in top journals such as Marketing Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and the Journal of Management Information Systems. Miguel is also a regular presenter in top peer-reviewed research conferences such as the International Conference of Information Systems, the Economics of Digitization Seminar Series of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Conference on Digital Experiments at MIT.