Bráulio Alexandre Barreira Alturas was born in Lisbon in 1964, but has always lived in Queluz. He has a PhD in Business Management with a specialization in Marketing (2005), a Master's Degree in Business Sciences with a specialization in Management Information Systems (1995), and a Degree in Business Organisation and Management (1989), from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is currently an Associate Professor at the ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Information Science and Technology Department and a researcher at ISTAR-Iscte (Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center). He is the coordinator of several curricular units of Informatics Applied to Management and Social Sciences and is a Professor in Master's and Postgraduates, as well as a trainer in the area of Organizational Information Systems.