Ana Figueiras received her Ph.D. in Digital Media from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UT Austin Program | Portugal) in late 2016. Ana also holds a degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in New Media. Her main research area is information visualization with a focus on visual forms of storytelling and on identifying the best techniques for incorporating narrative elements into visualization, as well as finding which elements are most effective. She is also interested in new methodologies for performance and experience evaluation in visualization.