Ana Figueiras is a research scientist at CICANT and an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona. She received her Ph.D. in Digital Media from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UT Austin Program | Portugal) and also holds a degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in New Media from the same institution. Her main research area is information visualization with a focus on visual forms of storytelling and on identifying the best techniques for incorporating narrative elements into visualization, as well as finding which elements are most effective. She is also interested in new methodologies for performance and experience evaluation in visualization. Ana is also a visiting assistant professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a colaborator at iNOVA Media Lab.Specialties: Science, technology, online journalism, information visualization, storytelling.