Background
Sequeira Dias was born in Ponta Delgada, Azores.
Sequeira Dias was born in Ponta Delgada, Azores.
She completed post-doctoral work at universities throughout Europe, including the Institut d" Études Européens at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa"s Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, the Economic History Institute at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business, and the Centre d"Économie Internationale at the University of Geneva.
A professor in the Department of Management and Economics at the University of the Azores, she specialized in the history of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. She received her bachelor"s degree, master"s degree and doctorate from the University of the Azores. Her 1983 doctoral thesis for economic history, " Much of Sequeira Dias" research centered on the history of the Azores.
Sequeira Dias died in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal on 7 January 2013, aged 54, from undisclosed causes.
She had been conducting research for two forthcoming books at the time of her death: a biography of José de Almeida, a former leader of the Azores Liberation Front (FLA), and a book on the introduction of electricity to the Azores.