Former Member of  the Board of  Trustees 2018-2020

Lígia Ribeiro has been Principal Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) since 2002. At the University of Porto (U.Porto) she was Pro-rector for ICT between 2006 and 2014, after being Vice-president of the Institute for Common Resources and Initiatives and director of the Computer Centre of FEUP. She was responsible for several ICT projects at U.Porto, namely for the campus-wide information system SIGARRA, the institutional repository, the grid project and the e-learning cafés project.

Lígia Ribeiro is member of the Board of Directors of the European University Information Systems Organization (EUNIS). She was President of EUNIS between 2004 and 2006, after being vice-president for two years. She is also the chair of the European CASRAI Chapter, launched in April 2017. Since 2014 she is a member of the Task Group Best Practice/DRIS of the European Organization for International Research Information (euroCRIS). Between 2008 and 2011 she was member of the Technical Committee of TERENA, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association.

Lígia Ribeiro received her degree in Applied Mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto and holds a PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Minho. Her main research areas of interest are Computer Simulation, High Performance Computing, Information Systems, Electronic Administration and Informal Learning Spaces.