Alexandra Marina Nunes Albuquerque holds a PhD in Linguistics (Terminology) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her main research interests are specialized languages, terminology, business translation, localization and technical communication. She is an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Porto (ISCAP-P.PORTO) and has strongly contributed to the internationalization process of ISCAP-P.PORTO since 2004. She has also organized several international conferences and meetings. She is currently a reviewer in several scientific international journals and a member of the scientific boards of the Postgraduate Diploma in Computer-Assisted Translation and of the Master in Specialized Translation and Interpreting (ISCAP-P.PORTO). She is program director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Technical Communication and president of the board of APCOMTEC -Portuguese Association for Technical Communication. Since March 2019 she is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal Polissema. She has been the secretary of "CT 221-Terminologia, Língua e Linguagens" at IPQ, the mirror committee of the ISO/TC 37, from 2021 to 2023. Since October 2023 she is also the president of Subcommittee 5 (SC5 of CT221 - Translation, Interpreting and Related Technologies. She is the vice director of the FCT Research Center CEOS.PP - Center for Organizational and Social Studies, since March 2023.