Oradoras da WiDS Portugal 2021

Susana Brás is a mentor at Geek Girls Portugal, a non-governmental organization that focuses on engaging, inspiring, and empowering women through meetings and workshops, awareness sessions in schools to inspire young women, and mentoring to support the development and career advancement of women in technology. She is also a researcher at IEETA/ DETI, University of Aveiro. Her research has focused on Affective Computing, where she has studied the emotional response of individuals through the processing of physiological signals. Her focus of interest is on biometric identification of emotions and emotional states, emotion modeled environments and information extraction from biomedical databases. Susana Brás graduated in Mathematics Applied to Technology, from FCUP, in 2005. She started her professional career in the same year, in the actuarial area. In 2010 she finished her PhD in Biomedical Sciences where she studied ways to automate the assessment of unconsciousness in patients under intravenous anesthesia. Always with a great curiosity to understand the process itself and find quantifiable justifications, led to an interest and dedication to Data Science.