Maria Luísa Rocha holds a BSc in Economics, by the Universidade dos Açores (2003); a MSc in Public Management, by the Universidade dos Açores (2006); and a PhD in Economic and Management Sciences, by the Universidade dos Açores (2010).
She is a Professor at the Universidade dos Açores since 2009 and a researcher at the Center of Applied Economic Studies of the Atlantic since 2011. She teaches curricular units in Economics and Management, both in undergraduate and master’s degrees.
She has supervised numerous master’s students and some PhD students and have participated in several master’s juries.
She was the Director of the Degree in Management, from 2021 to 2023, and is the Director of the Degree in Economics, since 2023.
Her primary research interests are in the areas of measuring risks and vulnerabilities, probabilities and statistics, economics, and tourism. In these areas, she has published papers on inference on location using the scale, and on tourism statistics and the COVID-19 pandemic.