Elsa Cardoso is an associate professor at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), in the Department of Information Science and Technology of the School of Technology and Architecture, and director of the Master's Degree in Integrated Business Intelligence Systems. She is a researcher at the Information Science, Technology and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-Iscte) and the Information Systems and Decision Support Group at INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal. She has a PhD (European Doctorate) in Information Sciences and Technologies from ISCTE-IUL, specializing in Business Intelligence. She is co-coordinator of the data visualization area at the DAViD Lab-Iscte (Advanced Data Digitization and Visualization Laboratory) created in February 2025, in collaboration with the Portuguese Mobility and Transportation Institute (IMT). She is a member of the executive committee of the Artificial Intelligence Competence Center for Public Administration (IA>>AP) of the ISCTE CI-CVTT Association.

His research interests include Business Intelligence & Analytics, data visualization, Data Warehouse, and strategic information systems (Balanced Scorecard) applied to Higher Education, Science and Public Administration.

She is a member of the Business Intelligence Special Interest Group of EUNIS (European University Information Systems organization). She was the leader of this SIG from 2013 until 2019. Since 2022, she is also a member of the Enterprise Architecture SIG of EUNIS, working on capability maturity models for Higher Education. She has participated in several national and international research projects.

She is currently working on the following projects:

• xSHARE: Expanding the European EHRxF to share and effectively use health data within the EHDS (101136734 - Horizon-HLTH-2023-IND-06) [2023-2026]

• National Programme for Open Science and Open Research Data (PRR). [2024-2026]

Projects already finalized:

• Study for the knowledge of fraud in the structural funds in Portugal (POAT-01-6177-FEDER- 000126). Principal Investigator. [2022-2023]
• Digital Transformation in Research: Science Management and Open Science (POCI-05-5762-FSE-000438). [2021-2023]
• MAIPro – Project Non-compliance Monitoring and Alert (06/POAT/2021). [2022-2023]
• IRIS – Summarizing and Informing Decisions: Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques at the Supreme Court of Justice. Researcher, integrating the INESC ID team. [2021-2022]
• Healthcare Insight – Units Performance Management (HI-UPM/2014/38567; FEDER-QREN). Principal Investigator from Iscte. [2014-2015]
• GRADUA – Graduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania (Erasmus+ project No. 585961-EPP-1-2017-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (2017 -2926/001 -001). [2019-2021]
• iLU – Integrative Learning from Urban Data (DSAIPA/DS/0111/2018). Researcher, integrating the INESC ID team. [2018-2022]
• IA-Incentivos – Artificial Intelligence in Incentive Management (POCI-05-5762-FSE-000231). [2020-2021]

https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/elsa-cardoso/cv