Ana Maria A. C. Rocha is an Associate Professor at the Department of Production and Systems (DPS), School of Engineering, University of Minho. She has a PhD in Production and Systems Engineering from the University of Minho in 2005, a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Minho in 1997 and a degree in Systems and Computer Engineering from the University of Minho in 1993. She entered the academic career in 1998 as a teaching assistant in the Systems Engineering and Industrial Processes Group of DPS department, where she joined the Numerical Methods and Statistics subgroup. She has been teaching various courses in numerical methods, statistics and nonlinear optimization areas to undergraduate, integrated master's, master's, and the Doctoral Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minho. She is a researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Centre, University of Minho, and also the coordinator of the "Systems Engineering and Operational Research (SEOR)" research group. She has been developing his scientific activity in the areas of Systems Engineering, Optimization, and Operational Research. In particular, her research interests are in the Global optimization, Nonlinear optimization and mixed-integer programming areas. She is the Managing Editor of "Journal of Global Optimization", Springer, since 2019. She was guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue "GOW 16" in the "Journal of Global Optimization", Springer (2018). She was Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue "Nature-Inspired Intelligence Methods and Applications" in the "Mathematical Problems in Engineering", Hindawi, 2022. She was Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue "Development and Optimization of Mathematical Models for Operations Research'' in the "Mathematics", MDPI, 2022. She is Editorial Board member of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, since 2018. She is Editorial Board member of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer) in the context of the International conference on Computational science and its applications (2012, 2014-2023). She was the Chair of the Organizing Committee of two International conferences: ICCSA 2014 and Global Optimization Workshop 2016. She was member of the Organizing Committee of two international conferences: FGP22 and EMO2015. Se is now co-Chair of the organization of the Wildfire and Operational Research international conference. She has more than 120 (indexed) publications in journals, book chapters, books, and proceedings of international conferences. She received national prizes, the Honorable Mention for the Isabel Themido Prize (2015), and Isabel Themido Prize (2017). She supervised or co-supervised 4 doctoral thesis and has 2 supervisions in progress. She is supervising 1 post-doctoral student. She has supervised master's students in the areas of data analysis and optimization. She participates or has participated as a researcher in 6 projects, one of which as co-principal investigator (Co-PI). She also supervised several grants in research projects. In her professional activities, she has interacted with more than 200 collaborators in co-authoring scientific articles and other scientific activities, some of them international researchers.