Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha is currently a Professor of IT and Project Management in the School of Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal. She holds a Dipl. Eng. in the field of Systems and Informatics Engineering, an M.Sci. in Computer Integrated Manufacturing, a Dr. Sci in Production and Systems Engineering and Habilitation in Informatics. She teaches subjects related with Information Systems, Information Technologies, Project Management and Organizational Models to undergraduated and post-graduated studies. She supervises several PhD projects in the domain of Virtual Enterprises and Information Systems and Technologies. She regularly publishes in international peer-reviewed journals and participates on international scientific conferences. She serves as a member of Editorial Board and Associate Editor for several International Journals and for several Scientific Committees of International Conferences. She has authored and edited several books and her work appears in more than 150 papers published in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She is the co-founder and co-chair of CENTERIS - Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems.