Maria Anastasiadou is a PhD student at Nova Information Management School, University Nova in Lisbon in Information Systems Management with a specialization in Information Technologies, more specifically in the area of Data science. She has been working as an IT consultant for the past 7 years in governmental related IT projects, and she holds a first class with honours B.Sc. in Computer Sciences by the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK and a master’s degree in information management, with a specialization in Information Systems and Technologies Management from the University of Nova IMS in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently she has a Phd scholarship from NOVA IMS supported by project POCI-05-5762-FSE 000223, “A Ciência de Dados da Energia” and by ADENE, Agência para a Energia, Portugal.