Dr. Fernanda Cristina Barbosa Pereira Queiroz completed a postdoctoral program in Information Science, Management, and Technology at the Federal University of Paraná (2015). She holds a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1997) and a Master's and PhD in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1999 and 2003). At the University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNESC, 2000-2009), she served as Institutional Planning Advisor, Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Economics, Coordinator of Market Research, and Coordinator of Research and Graduate Studies. She consulted on establishing a university in Angola (Africa). Since 2009, she has been a professor in the Department of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), where she coordinated the undergraduate program in Production Engineering, chaired the Department of Production Engineering, and founded the Tutorial Education Program (PET) for the Production Engineering program. She is a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Information Management at the Federal University of Paraná. She has experience in Quantitative Methods, Organizational Management, and Information Management, with a focus on innovation and knowledge management, open education, MOOCs, and higher education.