Vanda M. Lourenço is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, and an active member of the NOVA Math research center, where she co-coordinates the thematic line Mathematics for Health and Biological Sciences (MatHBioS). She earned her PhD in Statistics and Stochastic Processes from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, in 2011.

Her research focuses on robust, non-parametric, and computational statistics, with particular applications in plant breeding, genetics/genomics, and the prediction of quantitative traits.