Margarita Matias Robaina, who was born in Venezuela in 1979, holds a PhD in Economics, a Master's in Business Economics, and a degree in Economics from the University of Aveiro. She is a member of the Governance, Competitiveness, and Public Policy Research Unit (GOVCOOP), in the Competitiveness, Innovation, and Sustainability group. Its areas of interest are energy economics, environmental and natural resource economics, energy and environmental policy, and general equilibrium models. She has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism (DEGEIT) at the University of Aveiro since 2011. Additionally, she was an Assistant between 2009 and 2011, and a Guest Assistant from 2006 to 2009. She taught the curricular units of Economics, Theory of Economic Growth, Environmental Economics, Economics of Coastal and Marine Resources, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics, International Economics, Portuguese Economics, Economic History, Environmental and Energy Economics, and Energy Economics and Climate Policies. She held the positions of Vice-Director of the Master in Management and Planning in Tourism and Tutor of the Course of Economics in the Program of Mentoring at the University of Aveiro. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Department. Margarita has several publications in books and international journals with scientific arbitration and has participated in several conferences.