Apresentação Pessoal

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 2014 in Information Technologies and Systems at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho. Her doctoral work focused on the methodological contribution to the development of application profiles in the context of the Semantic Web.

In her research career, she has participated in projects related to the creation of semantic interoperability contexts, especially for the publication of Linked Open Data. More recently, she has been involved in a PRR-funded project on the development of a digital tool to facilitate short supply chain processes in the context of family farming (AGROVILA), 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" (ILIAD).

She began her career at the School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University (1993-2003), then moved to the Higher Institute of Accounting of Porto of the Polytechnic University of Porto (1998-2023), having also accumulated functions in both places in the early years, and recently (January 2024) joined FEUP as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering in the area of Information Systems.

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