João Ricardo Branco is a professor at Coimbra Polytechnic - Coimbra Institute of Engineering (ISEC), in Portugal. PhD in Applied Mathematics, graduate in Civil Engineering Sciences, and undergraduate in Financial Analysis. He has several scientific and pedagogic publications and his research interests are finance, mathematical education for engineers, and mathematical models for glioma proliferation and diffusion. He is a member of the Mathematics Centre of the University of Coimbra (CMUC), the Research Group on the Didactics of Mathematics in Engineering (GIDiMatE) and the Center for the Support of Mathematics in Engineering (CeAMatE).