Ana Teresa Freitas

Biography

Ana Teresa (PhD) is co-founder/shareholder of Heart Genetics. She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering and a Master degree in Electronics Engineering. She attended the Advanced Management Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Católica Lisbon – BES, School of Business and Economics (2013). Her main expertise is on the areas of Computational Biology, Human genetics, Algorithms and Data Mining. For the last 15 years she has co-authored about 90 papers in journals and international conferences in the areas of computational biology and bioinformatics, 2 book chapters, supervised 6 PhDs and more than 14 master students. As a researcher at INESC-ID, she was the head (2009-2014) of the Knowledge Discovery and Bioinformatics research group (KDBIO http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt. She also coordinated international projects under FP7 and many Portuguese National projects. As a Full Professor at Técnico Lisboa, University of Lisbon, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, she created the Computational Biology course; she is presently the coordinator of the Scientific Area of Programming Methodology and Technology at Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Research Interest

 computer science and engineering, electronics engineering, business, economics, computational biology, programming