Ana Soares is a researcher at Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra (INESC Coimbra), Portugal. She holds a PhD degree in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Coimbra – MIT Portugal Program, a MSc degree in Energy for Sustainability (Energy Systems and Policy) and a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers (Energy). Between June 2016 and December 2020 she worked at VITO, EnergyVille, Belgium, where she was mainly involved in H2020 projects aiming at finding optimized solutions for maximizing energy flexibility. She also contributed to project proposals writing and preliminary studies for the European Commission.