Biography

Teresa Almeida received a Ph.D. in HCI/Interaction Design from Newcastle University, UK, and a Master’s from ITP, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Previously, she was a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Teresa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University in Sweden, and an Invited Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.

Her work is interdisciplinary, design-led, and interventional, and she combines research through design (RtD) and participatory methods to research sensitive topics and design with marginalized communities of practice.