Invited speakers

Teresa Albuquerque  is a Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, and a senior researcher at CERNAS (IPCB), Portugal. Her research interests encompass the use of spatial analysis, multivariate geostatistics, and compositional data analysis in the study of Earth and Environmental processes and modeling. Under these subjects, she has been coordinating several theses in master's and Ph.D. programs and participating in several collaborative projects with international partners. She is the coordinator of the topic “Sustainability of Productive Systems and Natural Engineering Solutions” in the Ph.D program in Sustainability and Environment, lecturing “Environmental Systems Modelling”. In 2019, at the invitation of the organizing committee of the Eco-Festival Salva a Terra, she contributed to the debate on the topic of Lithium Mines! And now? with the lecture on “Unsustainable Sustainability”. 

Maribel Ortego hold a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), with a Licenciatura in Mathematics (BA+MSc) and a Diplomatura in Statistics (BA) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I appreciate the duality of being both a mathematician and a statistician, as it has shaped my perspective and approach to research. Currently, I am an Associate Professor at UPC, working in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Section of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Civil Engineering School (ETSECCPB-UPC). Over the years, I have collaborated with multidisciplinary teams, applying mathematical and statistical techniques to solve problems in different engineering areas. My work focuses on three main areas: (1) compositional data analysis, (2) modeling extremal phenomena and dependence structures (particularly using copulas), and (3) applying Bayesian methods for parameter estimation in these models. I have actively contributed to several research projects involving research on Compositional Data methodologies. 

Christine Thomas-Agnan , a former student of the École Normale Supérieure, earned her PhD in mathematics from UCLA (Los Angeles, USA). Now an emeritus professor, she has been affiliated with Université Toulouse Capitole (France) since 1989 and was appointed professor of mathematics in 1994. Throughout her career, she has held several key roles within the Toulouse School of Economics, including serving as director of the master's program in Econometrics and Statistics for eighteen years and leading the mathematics department for two years. Her research interests span reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, nonparametric statistics, spatial statistics, and compositional data analysis.