Cristina Maria Ferreira Pinto da Silva started teaching at ISCAP (Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto) in 1983, in the area of Languages. She has been a Coordinating Professor without aggregation since 2005 at ISCAP, where, among other management tasks, she was Vice-President and President of the Technical-Scientific Council.

She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (English/German) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences (Didactics of English) from the University of Aveiro and a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. She is a member of the Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI/ISCAP)

Was Vice-President of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) from 2010 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022, with the areas of Evaluation/Accreditation and Quality. Among other tasks, he supervised the preparation of the Self-Evaluation Report of the EUA (European University Association) Follow-up exercise, as well as the organisation of the visit of the respective Evaluation Commission (2010).

In the periods 2010-2014 and 2018-2022, he was in charge of preparing the evaluation/accreditation processes of the entire IPP training portfolio (55 bachelor’s degrees and 77 master’s degrees, academic year 2020/21) by A3ES, including participation, on behalf of the President of IPP, in the visits of the CAE. He also supervised the preparation of proposals for new study cycles. More recently, he was responsible for submitting CTeSP proposals to DGES. In 2018, he was responsible for organising the CAE visit within the scope of the Institutional Assessment process by A3ES.

From 2018 to 2022, he led the SIGaQ Commission of IPP, responsible for coordinating IPP’s Internal Quality Management System. As Vice-President of IPP, she was a member of the Sectorial Commission for Training and Education (CS11) of the Portuguese Institute for Quality (IPQ) and was part of the Quality Board of the Athena University Alliance.

She participated in the ESABIH Project (158853-TEMPUS-1-BE), for the accreditation of Higher Education study cycles in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under which she was external evaluator of two study cycles at the Universities of Djemal Bijedic and Zenica, in 2012.

She also participated in the EUREQA Project – Empowering universities to fulfil their responsibility for quality assurance, (530631-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-BE-TEMPUS-JPGR), coordinated by the European University Association (USA), as a representative of IPP, from 2012 to 2014.

As Vice-President of IPP, she participated assiduously in conferences and workshops on Quality in Higher Education, promoted, among others, by A3ES, EQAF, FECIES, USA and EURASHE.