Elizabeth de Sousa Vieira holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. She then completed a Ph.D. in Engineering and Industrial Management and the first year of a Master’s course in Studies in Modelling, Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems, both from the Universidade do Porto. Moreover, she received additional training through the European Summer School for Scientometrics and Research Infrastructure for Research and Innovation Policy Studies. Her main research interests focus on the use of bibliometric techniques to describe the scientific performance of a country, a research unit, and scientists, and to support peer decisions in competitive funding; the dynamics of scientific knowledge creation mainly through research collaboration; and the means used by the government to steer higher education towards the desired research policy goals.