Ana J. Mendes is the Professor Assistant of the Information Systems Department at the Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais (ESCE) of the Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS) and has been a lecturer at this institute since 1997. In 2012 obtained a PhD in Management (pre-Bologna PhD in Information Systems) in the Information Systems area from the Universidade de Évora. Completed her Master's in Information Systems Management at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa in 2000. Graduated in Statistics and Information Management from the Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1995. She is currently a co-responsible researcher for the Sines Nexus project, within the scope of the Digital and Green Transition Agenda, PRR. Has participated as a researcher in 2 research projects, funded by FCT, related to the digitalisation of urban water infrastructure. Co-authored 5 books, 2 book chapters and 2 articles in international journals and 1 in a national journal. The main research areas are Information Systems, Information Systems Architecture. Digitalisation, Business Intelligence, Data Mining and Big Data. Has supervised several Master's dissertations. At ESCE/IPS is a Course Director of the Master's programme in Data Science for Business. She is a member of the IPS Conselho Geral and the ESCE Technical-Scientific Council. She was Chair of the Information Systems Department (2010-2012) (2020-2022) and is Vice-Chair of the Department (2022-2024), having also been a member of the Pedagogical Council, Scientific Council and Assembleia de Representantes of ESCE/IPS.