Ana Nunes Alonso is an Assistant Researcher at INESC TEC and an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Informatics (University of Minho, 2017), with a thesis focused on database replication for enterprise applications. Her research interests focus on distributed systems, fault-tolerant protocols, and dependable data management. Ana has over 15 years of experience in designing and evaluating robust distributed protocols across both academic and industrial contexts. She is a co-developer of TADA, a toolkit for approximate distributed agreement, which generalizes this type of protocols, as proposed in literature, to a skeleton that easies implementation and testing. This work has been published in Science of Computer Programming (2024) and presented at key venues such as IFIP DAIS. Other works include an exploration of the effect of message patterns in BFT consensus protocols and tackling fully-distributed BFT machine learning. Recent contributions in dependable data management include challenges in transactional support, polystores and heterogeneous database replication. She has contributed to European and nationally funded projects including CloudDBAppliance, AIDA, and PeT (Privacy and Transparency), focusing on resilience, data consistency, and security in distributed environments. Her involvement has led to systems that tackle challenges such as Byzantine fault tolerance, replication under network asynchrony, and data access control in blockchain-based platforms. She has a strong publication track record in peer-reviewed venues such as VLDB, DAIS, LADC, and EDCC, and has served as a reviewer and TPC member for conferences in distributed systems and dependable computing.