Helena Barbosa obtained her first degree in Communication Design - Graphic Art from the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Oporto in 1992. Since 1998 she has lectured on the Design Course in the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, mostly in the disciplines of Geometry, Reprography, History and Aesthetics of Design, and History of Portuguese Design. In 2002 she was awarded a Masters’ Degree with the dissertation "Web Site Stories: Towards a Virtual Museology of the Virtual". At present she is preparing her Doctorate in the area of Design, with a dissertation entitled “The History of the Portuguese Poster in the 20th Century: Towards a Virtual Museum of Portuguese Design”, and is responsible for the creation of a virtual on-line poster museum containing around 40,000 exhibits, a project developed by the University of Aveiro.