Ana Paula Rocha, PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1993, is currently associate professor at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, integrated member of Research Centre for Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP), member of the Associate Laboratory on Intelligent Systems, and leading the Cardiovascular Research at CMUP. Her main interests are in interdisciplinary fundamental and applied research in multivariate time series analysis, information theory, and biomedical statistical signal processing and data analysis, with emphasis in the characterization of cardiovascular variability and risk stress in critical illness and critical care. She is Member of the Portuguese and Royal Statistical Societies (SPE and RSS), the Portuguese and European Societies of Mathematics (SPM and EMS), Senior Member of the IEEE integrating the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing, and an Associate Editor of the open access journal Frontiers in Network Physiology, section on Information Theory.