Patrícia Gomes is Coordinator Professor with aggregation of Public Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Taxation at the Management School of the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) and integrates its Scientific Council. She concluded the PhD in Accounting in 2011 at the University of Minho and obtained the Aggregated Title in Management at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) on September 13, 2023. She is the Director of the Research Centre on Accounting and Taxation at IPCA (CICF) since February 2022, and was the President of its Scientific Council since 2017 and January 2022. She also collaborates with the Research Center on Political Science at the University of Minho. She is the author and co-author of several papers published in high-quality journals (e.g. FAM, JPBAFM, PMM, Abacus ...) in the area of public accounting, accountability, and performance, indexed at Socupus or Web of Science (more than 30). She integrates the Scientific Committee of international conferences (e.g. bi-annual CIGAR and EIASM International Conferences, GRUDIS Conference) and integrates, since 2023, the organization committee of the Young Scholar Programme of the EIAMS public sector conference. Since February, 2023, she is member of the Editorial Member of the Accounting and Management Review (owned by the Chartered of Certified Accountants- OCC) and is a member of the History Accounting Commission of the OCC where she collaborates in the organization of events and activities promoting the debate among academics and practitioners. She is reviewer in high-quality journals in their research interest fields (e.g. JPBAFM, IJPA, PMM and Accounting Education). She collaborates with the University of Aveiro teaching in the Ph.D. Program of Accounting where she is responsible by the curricular unit of Advanced Studies in Management Accounting. She supervises Ph.D. theses in the areas of public accounting, accountability, and performance management (7 theses ongoing and 1 concluded). She is the coordinator of the postgraduate in the new Public Sector Accounting system based on IPSAS and collaborates with INA (Instituto Nacional de Administração) in the design and teaching of the postgraduate in Public Sector Accounting and Financial Management. She is the principal researcher of the project funded by FEDER/FCT (POCI-01-0143-FEDER-106908), between 2016-2019, which studied the public sector accounting changes toward IPSAS adoption in the Iberian Peninsula. She coordinated several applied-research projects developed in articulation with the institutions of the region (namely municipalities) helping them solve specific problems and implement innovations in the accounting and management system. She organized the Accounting and Finance Summer School developed by the CICF in 2023 which integrates 9 research fellowships and an international research week with more than 20 students from different countries. She was Vice-President at IPCA from 2011 until 2021. In this function, she was responsible for the Quality Assurance Policy at IPCA and assumed the Presidency of the Council for Quality and Evaluation. She was responsible for Research and Innovation and for Pedagogical Management Affairs. During this period she coordinated the IPCA policy and strategy to promote academic success and to reduce students' dropout. Since 2014 she integrated the IPCA Management Board. She was the main coordinator of different strategic projects for digitalization, modernization, innovation, and IoT application in higher education systems (SAMA projects). Her main research interests are on public accounting and accountability, management accounting and performance, sustainable reporting, and digitalization and popular reporting in public sector.