BSc in Mathematics, Universidade dos Açores, 1992. MSc in Statistics and Management of Information, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1997. PhD in Mathematics in the speciality of Probability and Statistics, Universidade dos Açores, 2006. Professor at Universidade dos Açores since 1992 and researcher at Center of Applied Economics Studies of the Atlantic since 2011. Her primary research interests are in the areas of multivariate data analysis, probability and statistics, Symbolic Data Analysis (SDA), and computational statistics. In these areas, she has presented national and international communications and has published several research papers in international peer-reviewed journals. She has also co-authored a few books and is Editor-in-chief of e3-Revista de Economia, Empresas e Empreendedores at CPLP (Ponte Editora).