Isabel Proença graduated in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1985 and received a masters degree in Applied Mathematics in 1990 from the same institution. In 1995, she completed her doctoral degree in Economics (with a thesis in econometrics) from the Université Catholique de Louvain, and in 2014 she attained the “Agregação” degree (similar to Habilitation) in Applied Mathematics from University of Lisbon. Isabel Proença is an Associate Professor of Econometrics at University of Lisbon, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, and researcher of CEMAPRE (the Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics of ISEG), which is part of REM (Research in Economics and Mathematics). Isabel’s research interests are in microeconometrics, panel data, semiparametric methods, and spatial econometrics, with a strong focus on applications to economics and management problems. She has published in Applied Economics, Computational Statistics, Empirical Economics, Environmental Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Papers in Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Statistics, Sustainability, among others.