Ana Catarina Vieira Rodrigues da Silva (born in 1980) holds a PhD in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms (2014) from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Porto and the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro. Her thesis was titled “The Design of the Technical Book in a Hybrid Publishing Context: From Printed to Electronic.” She also has a master’s degree in Aesthetic Communication from the Coimbra University School of Arts (2008), with a dissertation titled “Perspectives on the Book: Contributions to the Definition of the Book Object as a Design Project and Its Importance in Regulating Reading.” She finished her bachelor's degree in Communication Design – Graphic Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto in 2003. Since 2007, she has been a full-time lecturer in public higher education and became an assistant professor in 2016. She was a visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto from 2009 to 2010 and has participated in various international teaching and project management mobilities, particularly within Erasmus Programs and RUN-EU projects. She has been teaching at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) since 2007, specifically at the School of Design (ESD). She is responsible for the courses Graphic Design Project I and Editorial Design, as well as Editorial Graphics and Digital Typography in the Digital Design master's program. Currently, she is the coordinator for the Communication Design Subject Area and the Coordinator of mobility programs for ESD at IPCA’s International Relations Office. She is also the sub-director of the Graphic Design degree course. From 2016 to 2019, she directed the Higher Professional Technical Course in Design for Digital Media. Since 2017, she has been a member of the ID+ research centre. She regularly participates in seminars, workshops, and conferences, presenting her research in the fields of Communication; Communication Design; Editorial Design; Typography; Publishing on Digital Platforms; and Illustration within a publishing context. In 2021, she co-edited the book “Post-Digital Letterpress Printing: Research, Education, Practice” published by Routledge Focus. Between 2018 and 2021, she was part of the Design OBS. project team, which serves as a Portuguese Design Observatory. From 2020 to 2022, she led the merchandising development team for the project “European Digital Treasures and the Development of Innovative Merchandising for the National Archives,” working for DGLAB/Torre do Tombo. In 2014, she chaired the 5th Typography Meeting, an international conference held in Barcelos in November. In 2020, she co-chaired the Post-Digital Letterpress Printing conference in Porto. She is currently supervising several master’s projects focused on typography, hybrid publishing, independent publishing, digital design, and illustration.