Sónia Catarina Lopes Estrela holds a PhD in Archival and Library Information Science (2014) from the University of Coimbra, a Master's degree in Archives, Libraries, and Information Science (2008) from the University of Évora, and a License in History (1999) awarded by the University of Coimbra. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Management of Business Information Systems (2017) from the Accounting and Administration Institute of Porto-Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and a postgraduate degree in Documentary Sciences - Archives (2003) and Documentation and Library (2004) from the University of Coimbra. She started her professional teaching career in 1999 and performed support activities in the field of scientific research in History, associated with the Center for the History of Society and Culture at the University of Coimbra. Until 2003, she was a paleographer and certified trainer (Certificate of Pedagogical Skills) in Didactics and Pedagogical Resources. Finally, in 2003 she started her activity as a documentalist at Cena Lusófona - Association for Theater Exchange, at the Cena Lusófona Documentation and Information Center (CDI), in Coimbra, where she collaborated in the management of the CDI collection and the Association's edition, inventorying, developing, and classifying the information produced/received by the Association. In 2004, she began working at the Águeda School of Technology and Management - University of Aveiro (ESTGA), where she is currently an assistant professor. Over the years, she has held various management positions at ESTGA: currently, she is a Member of the School Board, with functions related to cooperation with society, including internship coordination, relations with external entities, and departmental coordination of the ERASMUS program. Before that, until October 2021, she was a member of the ESTGA Employment Office and of the Internships and Jobs and, also, a member of the Subsystem Analysis Committee for the Quality Assurance of ESTGA Curricular Units. Since 2019, she has served as vice-director of the Retail Management Course Committee. Between 2015 and 2019 she was a teaching member of the Higher Professional Training Courses (CTeSP) for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Management (SME). From 2007 to 2009 she was a member of the Internship Monitoring Committee and vice-director of the Documentation and Archival Degree. She coordinated the Project for the restructuring of the Archive of Social Action Services at the University of Aveiro, from 2009 to 2011, and has also been developing other cooperation activities within society. The activities developed as a teacher and the management functions over the years have promoted her connection to the business area based on permanent contact with companies, namely in placing students in curricular internships and monitoring those students throughout their internships, as well as project supervision, in collaboration with external entities, in which students start from concrete and close to reality problems, materialized in projects, aiming for the development of all acquired knowledge around the efforts to solve these problems. Her research areas are Information Management, especially in SMEs and its impact on the decision-making process, corporate and digital communication; and, more recently, due to the performed activities and management positions, her research interests also fall within the field of internships and their impact on students. Between 2022 and 2023, she was the co-responsible researcher of the project "Information Management in Small and medium-sized industrial companies in Portugal: Behavior, Memory, and Innovation".