Celina Pinto Leão, PhD in Engineering Science from Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, presently at School of Engineering of University of Minho, Portugal, as an Assistant Professor.
The research work in the R&D Centro Algoritmi focuses her main scientific interests in numerical and statistical methods in engineering and in the application of new methodologies in the learning process of numerical methods and statistics in engineering.
Member and/or PI of international and national competitive funded research projects across several domains, with a special emphasis to the domain of Policies of Higher Education and Science. Recently, new areas of interest namely the use of statistics for decision making and gender studies in engineering.
Currently she supervises PhD and MSc projects in these areas, being co-author of several scientific papers published in international journals and conferences.