Maria Isabel da Silva Araújo holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto (FEP), completed in 2019 with a dissertation entitled “Skill Mismatches and Labor Market Outcomes”, supervised by Professor Anabela de Jesus Moreira Carneiro. She obtained an MSc in Monetary, Banking and Financial Economics from the University of Minho in 2014, where she defended the dissertation “Gold as a Safe Haven” under the supervision of Professors Cristina Amado and Fernando Alexandre. She earned her undergraduate degree in International Relations from the same institution in 2002, having received two merit scholarships for academic excellence during her studies. Her professional experience combines both management and teaching roles. From 2002 to 2009, she worked as a controller and purchasing manager in a textile company, and in 2013 she served as Financial Manager at ITIM Group – Profimetrics Software Solutions SA. Her academic career began in 2010 as an Economics teacher at Escola Secundária de Barcelos. In 2011, she joined the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) as a lecturer, where she taught until 2019. That same year, she taught Microeconomics at the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto, and became an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusíada do Porto (Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences) until august 2025. Since 2016, she has been affiliated with the Polytechnic of Porto – ISCAP as Adjunct Invited Professor, and as of September 2025, she assume the position of Adjunct Professor at ISCAP. Her research interests lie primarily in Labor Economics, with a particular focus on skill mismatches and labor market outcomes. Her work emphasizes empirical analysis and applied approaches to public policy, labor market dynamics, and the evolving relationship between education and employment.