Professor Maria Teresa Correia de Barros has a long academic career at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the Engineering School of the University of Lisbon. Together with teaching and research, she fulfilled different management positions, namely as Vice President of the Scientific Council of IST and Pro-Rector of the university. From 2001 to 2009 she was working in Industry, at EDP -Energias de Portugal, namely as Member of the Executive Board of Labelec, the company in charge of Studies, Development and Testing.
Her main research interests are in the fields of High Voltage Engineering, Electromagnetic Transients and Electrical Power Quality. Currently she is Vice-President of the Power Systems Computation Conference and Chair of International Conference on Power Systems.