Vanessa Alexandra Freitas da Silva is an Researcher at INESC TEC - CRACS, and an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. She obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Porto in 2023, and a M.Sc. in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering from the University of Porto in 2018. During her Ph.D., Vanessa had an Advanced Form Grant at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and has published five articles in specialized journals and three publications in conference proceedings and book of abstracts. She is currently the Principal Investigator of an exploratory research project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her main research interests are in the areas of network science and time series analysis. Specifically, she is interested in analyzing time series data using complex network analysis methodologies. Her current lines of research are graph mining, time series mining, multilayer network analysis, feature extraction, clustering and classification problems, and also problems related to time series data privacy. In addition to these, she also has interests in the areas of algorithms and data structures, programming languages, data mining, and machine learning. She is currently working on developing new methods for analyzing multivariate time series data through multilayer network structures as well as on their exploration and analysis. She has supervised two master’s dissertations in these areas and is currently supervising a third.