Ana Maria de Almeida, an Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon, has a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal, in 2004. She is a researcher at the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is also an expert consultant for EACI.
Her current research interests include problem modelling, combinatorial optimisation, pattern recognition and signal processing. She is an IEEE and an ACM member.