Isabel Cristina Lopes has a degree in Mathematics, PhD in Industrial Engineering and a post-graduation in Statistics. She has a position at ISCAP - Polytechnic of Porto, as Associate Professor, lecturing Econometrics for Corporate Finance students, Statistical data analysis for Business and Management students, and Optimization methods for Logistics and Business Intelligence students, and has supervised more than 30 master theses in Logistics, Engineering, Management and Finance. She is vice-director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Studies of P. Porto (CEOS.PP), and has been an integrated researcher of CEOS.PP since 2017, developing research in the fields of Operational Research and Statistics for Decision support, Logistics, Sustainability, Finance and Business Management. She also collaborates with LEMA-Mathematical Engineering Lab, doing research and working as a consultant on Industrial Mathematics problems.