Ana Respício (female) is an Associate Professor at the Informatics Department of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, where she lectures in the three cycles and where she has had several coordination positions. She is an integrated researcher in the LASIGE research lab. Since 2021, she has been an elected member of the ULisboa Senate. She holds a PhD in Statistics and Operations Research (U. Lisbon, 2003). Her research interests include decision support (theory and technologies), optimisation, cybersecurity risk management, information security, IoT, AAL, and simulation. She has participated in several R&D projects funded by the European Commission, National scientific agencies and cooperation with industry projects. She participates in the XIVT project (xivt.org) in automated software test generation. She has been the IFIP Working Group 8.3: Decision Support vice-chair since 2014. In 2021, she received an IFIP Service Award. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Decision Systems and a member of the editorial board of IDT Journal and IJIDS. She collaborates with different research organisations. She is a founding member of the initiative Girls in ICT@ Ciências.ULisboa. She is a member of the Portuguese Technical Commission for Standardization under the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 - Information Security, cybersecurity and privacy protection (CT163).

Apoio à decisão; Gestão de risco em segurança informática; otimização; processos de negócio dependentes de IoT

Decision Support, Cibersecurity Risk Management, Optimization, Multi-objective Optimization, Simulation, IoT-aware Business Processes

2021-09-30 - Outstanding Service Award (IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing)