Inês Lynce is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and an integrated researcher at INESC-ID. She is currently the President of INESC-ID. She was a member of the Board of the Scientific Council of INESC-ID from 2010 to 2015. 

Inês is a well-established researcher in artificial intelligence, with contributions in constraint solving and optimisation to solve practical problems, ranging from planning and scheduling to bioinformatics and software engineering. Since 2020 she is serving on the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence Journal.