User:Raquel Castro Madureira/sandbox

Raquel Castro Madureira is a tecno-evangelist, mother, engineer, polititian. She was born in Aveiro in 1972, is married and has three children. She received the degree of Doctor in Electrotechnics at the University of Aveiro in 2015, where she had already completed her bachelor's and master's studies (pre Bologna) in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in 1995 and 1998 respectively. She is a visiting assistant professor at Dpt Economia Gestão Eng Industrial and Tourism (DEGEIT) - University of Aveiro (UA) in Portugal and a researcher at GovCOPP-The Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies.

PhD Raquel Castro Madureira is currently an invited assistant professor at the University of Aveiro in the area of information systems management, a master adviser and researcher at GOVCOPP within Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability Research Group (CIS). This group analysis the factors underlying the economic efficiency of the production systems, subject to constraints related to a sustainable use of resources and conservation of the environment, including problems and needs of firms and regions.

Her currently interests are focus on smart city issues, the digitalization menaces, and challenges in both professionals and public and the impact of technology in society. She is involved in several Erasmus+ projects.

She started his professional activity in 1995 as a scientific research fellow at the Instituto de Telecomunicações de Aveiro. She had a brief stint at the beginning of 1998 at Philips Portuguesa, Industrial Section of Ovar as a Product Engineer and Project Leader. In May 1998, she joined Mainroad Telecomunicações, which would later be renamed OPTIMUS and later SONAE.COM She was a radio planning, dimensioning and optimization engineer, becoming the coordinator of the radio access engineering team at SONAE.COM, where she remained until October 2008.

From 2008 to 2013, during his PhD course, he taught several subjects at the University of Aveiro at the Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Aveiro (ISCAA) and Dep of Political Sciences and DepElectronics, Telecommunications and Informatics.

From 2008 to 2009 she was a founding partner and manager of the telecommunications consulting company, Radio Network Services and Systems, RN2S, Lda and co-creator of the ESCUTAR PORTUGAL brand - georeferenced audio guides that she placed in all FNACS in Portugal.

In the 2013-2017 term, she was elected mayor as Executive Councilor in the Aveiro City Council with the following responsibilities: Environment and Quality; Youth, Seniors and Entrepreneurship and Housing. She was representative of the municipality of Aveiro on the governing board of the association of the municipalities of Carvoeiro, in the Informatics association of the central region (AIRC), President of the strategic board of Reserva S. Jacinto, member of the CPCJ restricted committee and member of the board of directors of ERSUC. He created and organized events of a National nature, participated in European projects and promoted synergies with the University of Aveiro in several areas. She was a candidate for the European Parliament for the district of Aveiro in May2019.

She was the District Delegate of Aveiro of the National Portuguese Engineers Association for the 2019-2022 triennium.

In May 2019 she was a candidate for the European Parliament for the district of Aveiro.

During her professional career she published several scientific articles and co-authored a book chapter. She was a guest speaker at the Order of Engineers, URSI Portugal and ARCTEL (CPLP Communications and Telecommunications Regulators), URSI, IEFP, at Ignite Portugal and Girls Lean In Portugal. She writes for children and young people with published titles.

She has religious and political activities in her local community, trainer at Academia de Saberes- Senior University of Aveiro for New Technologies. She shows ease in communicating with the public and in managing heterogeneous teams, whether for issues of themes, qualifications, cultural or hierarchical.