Ana Madureira was born in Mozambique in 1969. She received the B.S. in Computer Science Engineering, M.S. degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering, and Ph.D. in Production and Systems degrees in 1993, 1996, and 2003, respectively. She is Coordinator Professor with Habilitation in Informatics Engineering Department at the Institute of Engineering (ISEP/P.PORTO), and has a significant experience in Computer Science undergraduate/ graduate courses and in master and PhD thesis supervision. She has been involved in more than 25 R&D projects from which she coordinated 3 national and 1 Horizon funding in the area of Artificial Intelligence. She has published 7 books, 1 patent and over 150 papers in scientific conference proceedings, journals and books.

The main research interests are related to the application of Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to the design of approaches based on Nature Inspired Computation for scheduling, including, MAS, Autonomic Computing, Machine Learning techniques, User modelling, Decision-Support Systems, Bioinformatics, Big Data, Data Science/Data Engineering, and Research on Engineering Education.