Maribel Yasmina Campos Alves Santos serves as a Full Professor in Information Systems in Organisations and Society at the Department of Information Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal. She is a Senior Researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Centre and the CCG/ZGDV ICT Innovation Institute, where she leads the data engineering and analytics group. Previously, she led the Software-based Information Systems Engineering and Management Group (2017-2022) and currently coordinates the 'Organisational and Analytical Data-intensive Systems' research track since 2009. Her research focuses on Business Intelligence and Analytics, with particular emphasis on Big Data Analytics including data architectures, processing, analysis, and visualization. She contributes to international classifications through the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Topics in Decision Support and Analytics, Geographic Information Systems, and Big Data Application Processes, as well as IFIP Technical Committee on Information Systems. Dr. Santos has held significant administrative roles including Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering (2019-2022), Dean of the Pedagogical Council (2019-2022), and Associate Director of the Department of Information Systems (2010-2014). Since February 2024, she has served as Director of the Doctoral Program in Information Systems and Technologies. She was actively involved with AGILE as Secretary-General (2013-2015) and remains a member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS). Her recent publication portfolio demonstrates strong focus on emerging technologies, with 15 most recent works spanning large language models for conceptual modeling, storytelling dashboards for Industry 4.0, data mesh adoption, and model-to-model transformations. These publications reveal consistent themes in data architecture innovation, visualization techniques, and the integration of AI in information systems. Associate Editor, Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal (Q1, since January 2022) Scientific/Program/Organizing Committee member for over 140 international conferences Co-inventor of two patents (one national, one international) Dr. Santos has supervised 7 PhDs, 60 MSc, and 2 post-doc students, and currently mentors 4 PhD students, 4 MSc students, and 1 post-doc. She has supervised over 45 research grants and participated in more than 30 funded research projects. Her leadership extends to coordinating the Doctoral Program in Information Systems and Technologies and contributing to European research initiatives including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Joint Doctorate Program in Geoinformatics.



