Senhorinha de Fátima Capela Fortunas Teixeira is Associate Professor at the University of Minho, Researcher at the Centro ALGORITMI/LASI, University of Minho and Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Degree Program Bachelar in Industrial and Management Engineering (LEGI) in University of Minho. From 2011 to 2015, she was Department Director, and from 2016 to 2021, Erasmus Academic Coordinator in Production and Systems Area at the University of Minho. She completed the Bachelor in Systems Engineering and Informatics in 1984 by University of Minho and Doctor in Chemical Engineering in 1989 by University of Birmingham, School of Chemical Engineering. More recently, she completed the Integrated Master in Industrial and Management Engineering in 2016, by University of Minho. She published 95 articles in journals, 30 book chapters and 3 books. She organized 12 events, namely, she was a conference chair of ECOS 2018 - the 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, Guimarães, Portugal. She supervised 15 PhD theses and 85 MSc dissertations. She was Principal Investigator in one project, Co PI in one project and Researcher in 20. She supervised 27 grant projects. She works in the area of Engineering and Technology. In her professional activities, she interacted with almost 650 collaborators in co-authorship of scientific papers. In these works, and projects, her main contribution has been on the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in the numerical solution of engineering problems, such as, Heat transfer, Thermal comfort, PCB modelling, Two-phase flows, OoC modelling, Forest fire simulation, Thermal-economic optimization of a CHP system and Biomass combustion. She has also interest in PBL and Active and Student-centered learning methodologies, applied in the context of Industrial Engineering and Management area.