Liliana Catarina Rosa Ferreira completed her undergraduate studies in Applied Mathematics for Economics and Management at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon, in 2003. She subsequently obtained a postgraduate degree in Operational Research in 2006 and a PhD in Statistics and Operational Research in 2011, with a thesis focused on optimization models for forest management under fire risk. Since 2004, she has been a faculty member at the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic of Leiria, where she teaches courses in Mathematical Analysis, Statistics, Applied Statistics, and Operations Research across engineering and management programmes. She has been actively involved in research, initially as a collaborator of the Operational Research Center (CIO) and, since 2015, as a member of the Centre for Mathematical Studies (formerly CMAFcIO). Her research focuses on optimization in forest management, particularly in the context of wildfire risk. She has participated in several scientific projects in this area and has also been engaged in science outreach activities. She has been involved in the CiênciaLIZar project since 2007, promoting scientific culture through initiatives that connect higher education with schools and the broader community, and since 2018 has contributed to cultural and scientific dissemination activities in partnership with local institutions such as the Leiria Museum.