received her Habilitation in Information Systems and Technologies (Agregação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação) from the University of Minho, 2012, and her Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, University of Minho, 2001. She received the M.Sc. degree in Informatics (1996) and a degree in Informatics and Systems Engineering (1991) also from the University of Minho. She was the Associate Director of the Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, Portugal, from May 2010 to July 2014, and member of the AGILE council (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe, http://www.agile-onlie.org), from April 2011 to June 2015. She was the Secretary-General of AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe, http://www.agile-onlie.org) from May 2013 to June 2015. Her research interests include business intelligence and analytics, with particular focus on data warehousing and analytical techniques and tools, such as on-line analytical processing or data mining. In the decision-making process, particular attention is given to the spatio-temporal componente of the data, reason why many works address spatial data warehousing, spatial data mining, spatial on-line analytical processing, spatio-temporal data models and spatial reasoning. She is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijdmmm). She is author or co-author of more than 110 international publications, including books, book chapters and papers in scientific journals and international conferences. She integrated the scientific or organizing committee of more than 80 international conferences and is co-inventor of two patents, one national (Portuguese) and one international (US). She is member of the Association of Information Systems .