Maria Cristina Vieira de Freitas holds a doctorate and a master's degree in Information Science from the University of Salamanca and the Federal University of Minas Gerais, respectively. She also has a post-graduate degree in Preservation of Works on Paper and a degree in Documentation and Archival Studies and another in History (Teaching). She is an integrated member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies - CEIS20 (University of Coimbra), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, where she lectures in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Information Science. She is the coordinator of the master in Information Science at the University of Coimbra (2019 - ), where she has been supervised several M.Sc. dissertations, PhD theses and curricular and extracurricular internships. Currently, she is the Director of the Archive of the University of Coimbra (2019 - ) and of the 25 of April Documentation Centre of the University of Coimbra (2023 - ). She has been invited to join various scientific committees of national and international events and publications, and has published almost a hundred peer-reviewed works, including prefaces, introductions, book, book chapters and articles in journals and scientific proceedings. She has also participated in over a hundred scientific events, either as an assistant or as a presenter and session chairperson. Her main research interests are archival theories and methods, participative archives, archival information management, and qualitative research (with emphasis on software for data collection and analysis).