Personal Presentation

Mariana Curado Malta (born in Porto, 1969) is a professor in the field of information systems at the Department of Computer Engineering at FEUP and a researcher at INESC TEC.

She graduated from FEUP in Electrical Engineering and Computers in 1992, and in 1996 she completed her Master's degree in Génie Logiciel et Informatique Industrielle at the School of Engineering in Brest (France). She obtained her PhD in Information Technologies and Systems from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho in 2014. Her doctoral work focused on the methodological contribution to the development of application profiles in the context of the Semantic Web.

She has participated in projects focused on creating semantic interoperability contexts, especially for publishing Linked Open Data. More recently, she has been involved in a project on the development of a digital tool to facilitate short supply chain processes in the context of family farming, and in a project to develop virtual representations of the sea that integrate Earth observation, modelling, and digital infrastructures to provide forecasts of future developments "at sea".

She has been a researcher at INESC TEC in the “Human-Centred Computing and Information Science” (Humanise) group since January 2024. She has been a member of the Order of Engineers since graduating in 1992.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Humanities > Information science > Information management
2. Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering