Academic Appointments and Management Duties: I served 2 terms as associate dean, at NOVA IMS, and held the positions of President of the Pedagogical Council, Director of the MagIC (Information Management Research Center) and Director of the Doctoral Program in Information Management, Member of the Committee of the Nova Doctoral School, among other. Research: My research interests are essentially related to the areas of spatial data science, decision support systems, machine learning, and information systems. A significant part of my research work has been dedicated to the development of new machine learning algorithms. I have developed substantial work in Neural Networks, more specifically Self-Organizing Maps, Genetic Algorithms, and Oversampling Methods. A substantial part of this work has been developed in the context of geo-spatial applications, such as Remote Sensing, with the objective of adapting the generic machine learning methods to the specific needs and complexities of geo-spatial phenomena. Another stream of my research work has been dedicated to information systems and information management problems, such as the Digital Divide and e-Learning success. The work in the context of the Digital Divide has been focused on trying to rigorously assess and understand how it impacts the development and the wealth of nations. In e-Learning the central aim has been to understand what are the main drivers of success, and testing the impact of recently proposed concepts such as grit and gamification in e-Learning success. I have supervised 5 PhD students (to completion) and 59 master students, and my research has been awarded distinctions such as: 1. “Top 5% most cited recent articles in International Journal of Wildland Fire” - Catry, F. X., Rego, F. C., Bação, F., Moreira, F. (2009) “Modeling and mapping wildfire ignition risk in Portugal”. International Journal of Wildland Fire, Volume: 18, Issue: 8, Pages: 921-931. 2. "Top-50 most cited articles" published in Computers & Geosciences 2005-2010 – “The self-organizing map, the Geo-SOM, and relevant variants for geosciences” Computers & Geosciences, Elsevier, Oxford, UK. 3. Best Paper Award (Top Paper) – The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services - GEOWS 2009, Cancun, Mexico, 2009. Science Dissemination: I organized the “Data Science and Big Data in Digital Transformation Forum” a professional conference, a partnership with IDC, that is on its third edition and that connects more than 500 professionals from the area of data science, machine learning and data mining. I’ve also been involved in a similar effort but related with the Public Administration in the context of APDSI. I’m a member of the Portugal Digital Awards Jury since 2016, a joint initiative from IDC and Axians, a competition to reward the best business digital projects, which every year evaluates more than 100 IT projects from companies and Public Administration.