Liliana Freitas is a researcher at the Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico (CEG-IST) in Lisbon, Portugal. Liliana completed her MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2015 at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (IST, UL). In January 2016, she started a research assistant position in CEG-IST, and in September of 2018 she enrolled the Engineering and Management PhD program of IST. Liliana is currently working on her thesis, titled "A-HTA: Advancing multicriteria approaches and methods for Health Technology Assessment of medical devices", supervised by Professor Ana Vieira and co-supervised by Professor Mónica Oliveira. Her main research interests focus on the development of management science tools applied to health, especially in decision analysis following multicriteria value modelling and socio-technical approaches, Health Technology Assessment and Behavioural Operational Research. Liliana co-authored 3 articles in scientific journals, 3 book chapters and 1 book. Liliana is also currently involved in the FCT MEDI-VALUE (Developing HTA tools to consensualise MEDIcal devices' VALUE through multicriteria decision analysis) research project, a project developed together with the Portuguese HTA Agency (Infarmed) and three hospitals, that aims at advancing HTA literature by developing tools to assess the multidimensional value of Medical Devices.

Keywords: Behavioural Operational Research | Multicriteria Decision Analysis | Health Technology Assessment