M. Ivette Gomes was elected as an Efective Member of ‘Academia das Ciências de Lisboa’ in 2018, has been an Emeritus Professor at ‘Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa’ (FCUL) since 2017, a Researcher at ‘Centro de Estatística e Aplicações’, UL (CEAUL) since 1975, and CEAUL’s Leader (1999–2006). She was Head of ‘Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional’ (DEIO), FCUL (1995–1997). She obtained a Degree at Pure Mathematics (FCUL, 1970), a PhD in Statistics (Sheffield, UK, 1978) and a Habilitation Degree in Applied Mathematics (FCUL, 1982). She was a Founding Member of ‘Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística’ (SPE) and its President (1990–1994), and is now an Honorary Member of SPE. She was Vice President of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (2015–2017). She has been involved in the organization of several conferences. Among other editorial duties, she was Editor-in-Chief of Revstat—Statistical Journal (2003–2018), and she has been Associate Editor of Extremes since 2007. She supervised several students, and lectured several courses at first and post-graduate levels. She has co-authored 6 books, 11 book/journal editions, more than 200 book chapters/articles in international periodicals and several articles in national periodicals and proceedings. Among other prizes, she was selected as one of the Science Women to be part of the book edited by Ciência Viva in 2019. Her main areas of research are extreme value theory and statistics of extremes.