Short CV

Education

Habilitation (Agregação) in Information Systems and Technologies, University of Minho, 2012.

Ph.D. degree (Doutoramento) in Information Systems and Technologies, University of Minho, 2001.

M.Sc. degree (Mestrado) in Informatics, University of Minho, 1996.

D.Eng. degree (Licenciatura em Engenharia) in Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of Minho, 1991.

Position

Full Professor (Professora Catedrática), Information Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho.

Institutional Responsibilities

Dean of the Pedagogical Council, School of Engineering Scientific Council, University of Minho, October 2019 - September 2022.

Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering Scientific Council, University of Minho, October 2019 - September 2022.

Secretary of the School of Engineering Scientific Council, University of Minho, February 2016 - September 2019.

Secretary-General of AGILE (Association for Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe), May 2013 - June 2015.

Member of the AGILE (Association for Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe) Council, April 2011 - June 2015.

Associate-Director, Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, May 2010 - July 2014.

Member of the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Lung Foundation (Fundação Portuguesa do Pulmão), since June 2014.

Supervisor of 11 PhD students (5 PhD student already concluded), 49 MSc students (41 MSc students already concluded), and 34 DEng students (already concluded).

Research Topics

Business Intelligence and Analytics, Big Data Analytics, (Big) Data Warehousing.

Spatial Databases, Geo-Spatial Big Data Analytics, Spatial Reasoning.