Prior to joining the TU/e, she was an assistant professor at the Informatics Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (UPorto), Portugal, where she was the PI for UPorto for the ENSURE FP7 project. She holds a PhD and a MSc in Computers and Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, and two licentiate degrees she pursued simultaneously at two different universities: in computer science and engineering (from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) and in economics -being specialized in finances, insurances, banks and stock exchange (from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania).