Tatiana Tchemisova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and researcher of CIDMA, Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She graduated from the Belarusian State University and received her PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in 1996. In more than 20 years of teaching at the University of Aveiro, she has lectured more than 20 different curricular units including subjects on linear, nonlinear, and network optimization, operations research for students at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and supervised research seminars on convex, semi-infinite, and semidefinite programming. Her expertise includes different aspects of mathematical optimization, mostly in continuous and convex optimization, semi-infinite and semidefinite optimization, and optimization over convex cones. Another area of her research is related to mass transfer and minimal resistance problems, shape optimization, and applications of optimization methods in Data Mining and Decision Support. Tatiana Tchemisova is the author and co-author of more than 40 scientific articles and several didactic textbooks. She is a member of the editorial boards of six international journals, and has served as Editor of several Proceedings Books at international conferences and as a Guest Editor of Special Issues in International Journals.