Francisco J. Duarte (DEng, MSc, PhD) is a Professor (Professor Auxiliar) of Information Systems Engineering at the University of Minho. He is a member of SEMAG (Software-based Information Systems Engineering and Management) R&I group of the ALGORITMI Research and an Affiliated Researcher at EQPM group of CCG/ZGDV Institute. Before his appointment as Professor in September 2022, he was an Invited Professor for more than 18 years together with a professional career in the software industry, mainly at Bosch (among many others, developing, maintaining and managing teams in the shop-floor, SCADA, MES, ERP, Business Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence Systems; managing international initiatives on Industry 4.0 in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Malaysia, and China, managing initiatives on data collection, preparation, and analysis for product quality targeting defect tracking, failure prediction, and root cause analysis (6 Sigma)), Altran (managing the Portuguese software development and the life sciences data divisions) and Capgemini (managing Assets and Technologies for data and software products, and as R&D Director for Portugal, including activities on the Automotive, Quantum Communications, and 5G domains). He was also an advisor of the Portuguese Government on the creation of Industry 4.0 national initiative. He was a member of the Portuguese Council of Industry, at AEP (Association of the Portuguese Business Companies). He was a vice-president of DTx (Collaborative Laboratory for Digital Transformation). He founded two companies targeting data and software operations on the library, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and smart cities domains. His current primary research interests are software requirements, software architectures, software development processes, project management, and artificial intelligence (mainly ontologies and knowledge representation). He also has interests on the use of data to design reactive software architectures and to design reactive software development processes.