Dora Almeida

Department of Economic Sciences and Organizations

VALORIZA – Research Center for the Valorization of Endogenous Resources

Portalegre Polytechnic University

 

Contact information

dora.almeida@ipportalegre.pt

ORCID: 0000-0003-0224-8635

CiênciaID: 181D-7395-0348

Relevant links outside academia

18 years of professional experience in the banking sector (2006-2024), working in business management, financial analysis, risk assessment, and portfolio management at a Portuguese private bank. Expertise in credit risk analysis, as well as business management for corporate and private clients.

Expertise

  • Financial markets analysis: traditional assets and cryptoassets
  • Econophysics approaches: entropy, information theory, and statistical modeling applied to finance
  • Market efficiency, risk management, cross-correlation, and contagion analysis
  • Sustainable finance and environmental economics

Relevant projects

  • FCT Mobility (2025): International researcher mobility project. International research mobility program supporting medium- to long-term stays to conduct research and fieldwork.
  • INCOME (2023-2026): Tools for management of metal-contaminated areas.
  • PYRAGRAF (2023-2027): Decentralized pyrolytic conversion of agriculture and forestry wastes towards local circular value chains and sustainability. The project aims to launch a mobile, modular, solar-assisted pyrolysis unit to incorporate renewable energy technologies into the agricultural and forestry sectors.
  • H2tALENT (2024-2029): Alentejo Green Hydrogen Valley delivering integrated full-chain sustainable hydrogen ecosystem with technical, economic, social, and environmental benefits and superior upscaling/replicability. The project aims to generate knowledge, leverage innovation, and achieve a positive impact in Pernambuco, as part of a work agenda focused on green hydrogen.
  • RESIST (2023-2027): Regions for climate change resilience through Innovation, Science and Technology. The project’s main objective is to adopt a new practical framework for testing climate adaptation pathways across four EU regions with different socioeconomic profiles.
  • H2Excellence (2023-2027): Fuel Cells and Green Hydrogen Centers of Vocational Excellence towards affordable, secure, and sustainable energy for Europe. The project aims to establish a platform of vocational centers of excellence in the field of fuel cell and green hydrogen technologies, with a collaborative education, training, and development program to overcome existing gaps in the sector.