CMU Portugal members Irene Fonseca and Manuela Veloso, have once again been featured in Forbes Portugal’s list of the Most Powerful Women in Business, in recognition of their scientific contributions and achievements.
Irene Fonseca joined Carnegie Mellon University in 1987 and is currently the Director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis. She has significantly contributed to the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, serving as the coordinator of the dual degree doctoral program in Applied Mathematics and advising several doctoral students and postdocs. She also served as principal investigator at CMU under the math project Thin Structures, Homogenization and Multi Phase Problems.
Manuela Veloso is Head of J.P. Morgan Chase AI Research and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously Faculty in the Computer Science Department and Head of the Machine Learning Department. Under the CMU Portugal Program she led multiple collaborative projects and has been an advisor to CMU Portugal Ph.D. students in the areas of Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning.
The list also recognizes Isabel Capeloa Gil, member of CMU Portugal’s Board of Directors.
Isabel Capeloa Gil is the Rector of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) since 2016. In July of this year, she was elected president of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities, after becoming the first woman to preside over the International Federation of Catholic Universities since 2018.
With over 150 publications, she holds an honorary doctorate from Boston College (2019) and the Institut Catholique de Paris (2021). In 2022, she was appointed by Pope Francis as a consultant to the Dicastery for Education and Culture of the Holy See.
The CMU Portugal 2024 news article is available here.