Joana Lopes, a Portuguese systems engineer and anti-fascist, died on February 12, 2026.
Born Maria Joana de Menezes Lopes on October 11, 1938, in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, in Mozambique, she attended high school in Portugal. She was a professor of logic and other subjects in the philosophy department at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon from 1965 to 1971.
She later became a computer programmer and worked as a systems engineer for IBM in Portugal and Belgium. She was the first woman to join the company’s executive board in Portugal.
Joana Lopes Alves (11 October 1938 – 5 February 2026) was a Portuguese systems engineer and anti-fascist.