Ana Vieira

Ana Vieira holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in energy, from the University of Coimbra, where she also earned her Electrical Engineering diploma in 1996 and her MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004. Her doctoral research focused on the domain of Asset and Maintenance Management.
Since September 2021, she has been serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC), part of the Polytechnic University of Coimbra, where she currently holds the position of Course Director of the Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. Her academic career spans over two decades at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, where she worked as an Adjunct Professor and was also a member of the Department of Engineering. Earlier in her career, from 1996 to 1999, she was a lecturer at the University of Algarve. Across these institutions, she has taught and developed curricula in areas such as electronics, databases, air quality, energy performance in buildings, energy efficiency, power quality, production systems, maintenance and asset management, with a strong focus on applied engineering and sustainability.
Ana Vieira has expanded her pedagogical approach through international collaboration and training. Since 2021, she has completed her Co-Creation Facilitator training and participated in Demola International Project Studies. She has also taken part in two Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programs (BIPs) addressing sustainability and climate change and has participated in Erasmus+ staff mobility programmes for teaching and training.
She has been a member of the Portuguese Engineers’ Order since 2008 and of the Portuguese Association for Maintenance and Asset Management since 2000, having served as Secretary of its Supervisory Board until 2022. Alongside her academic roles, she has collaborated on several consulting and technical projects, particularly for municipal councils, in the fields of energy management, maintenance management, power quality and definition of technical specifications for lighting systems.
Her research activity is currently integrated into RCM2+ (Research Centre for Asset Management and Systems Engineering), where she has been a PhD Researcher since 2023. Between 2015 and 2023, she was a PhD Researcher at CISE (Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre), where she continues as a collaborating researcher. She has also been affiliated with the Smart Cities Research Center (Ci2) since 2017 (Research Line of Sustainable Resources Management since 2020) and was previously involved with the Energy Systems Group at IT between 1999 and 2014.
Her research interests include indoor air quality, production, energy and maintenance management, maintenance audits, maintenance strategies in asset management and sustainability. She has supervised numerous undergraduate projects as well as MSc theses and has authored several national and international publications on these topics.