The PORTSEA (Portuguese School of Extremes and Applications) and a few personal scientific achievements (Q6592005)

The purpose of this paper is to inform the creation of the Portuguese School of Extremes and Applications (PORTSEA) in Portugal in the 1980s, and about the academic background, the valuable work developed by PORTSEA members in statistics of extremes and applications, in the context of the recovery and dissemination of the history of statistics of extremes in Portugal. The author informs about research items developed by her and PORTSEA members in extremes. She also reports the great scientific influence on her studies, from the mathematician J. Sebastião e Silva, when she was a student at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). \textit{J. Sebastião e Silva} was one of the mathematicians of his time, who in his doctoral thesis defended in 1949 at FCUL, entitled ``Analytische Funktionen und Funktionalanalysis'' [Port. Math. 9, 1--130 (1950; Zbl 0041.43802)], made valid criticisms of parts of the scientific work [in: Atti Congresso Bologna 3, 149--156 (1930; JFM 56.0359.02)], developed in the 1930s by the Italian mathematician \textit{L. Fantappiè}. In this phase of her academic life at FCUL, the author decided to embark on the area of probability, statistics, and stochastics processes, working on randomness tests and non-parametric methodologies, under the guidance of mathematician J. Thiago de Oliveira, who worked in the area of statistics of extremes. The paper contains the following items, 1. A brief introduction; 2. The building of PORTSEA; 3. A few details on my scientific research; 4. A few additional topics and final comments.