Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the School of Science and Technology, University of Évora (Portugal), and a Researcher at the Center of Mathematics and Applications, Institute for Research and Advanced Training at the same institution. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Lígia is currently an Elected Member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Statistical Society (2024–2026). She has collaborated as a Referee for several international peer-reviewed journals. Her main research interests are statistics of extremes, nonparametric statistics, and computational statistical methods, with applications in life sciences, environment, risk, insurance, and finance. She is a member of the Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE) and the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE). She was awarded the best scientific paper by SPE in 2007.