Patrícia A. Filipe is an Associate Professor at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where she teaches courses in the area of Probability and Statistics. Her main research area is statistical modeling, in particular, it focuses on the study of dynamic models of individual growth, statistical models applied to health data and, more recently, analytical methods in Big Data. She has participated in research projects, and in the dissemination of the work developed in national and international scientific meetings, with the publication of several scientific papers.