Adelaide Figueiredo is Assistant Professor in the group of Mathematics and Information Systems at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto since 2000 and was teaching Assistant in this faculty during 1987-2000. She is PhD and MSc. in Probability and Statistics by Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon and BSc. in Applied Mathematics by Faculty of Science of the University of Porto. Her research interests are in Data Analysis, Multivariate Data Statistics, Computational Statistics, Directional Data Statistics, Statistical Quality Control, Sampling and Applications of Statistics.