Paula is actually Associate Professor at FCT NOVA in the mathematic department. Her main research is focused in Optimization in: Infeasibility Analisys; Non Convex Fractional Quadratic Problems; Copositive and Completly Positive Optimization; Timetabling Problems and Support Vector Machine (Histogram Data).

Her current interests are on Big Data, Symbolic Data and Industrial Mathematics.

Paula is in invited professor for any programs outside FCT NOVA and actually she is leading a postgraduate program “Mathematics for Enterprises ” in Cabo Verde, sponsored by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.