Isabel R. Dias, DVM, graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMV-UL), Portugal, in 1991. She received a PhD degree in Veterinary Sciences at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) in 2004 and Habilitation in Veterinary Sciences – Clinic at FMV-UL in 2012. She is an associate professor at the Department of Veterinary Sciences (DCV) from UTAD and teaches the Integrated Master's Course in Veterinary Medicine. She is responsible for the surgery service of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (HV) of UTAD (2005–present), and is the vice-coordinator of DCV-UTAD (2006/07) and director of HV-UTAD (10/2013–9/2019). She is an integrated member of CECAV-UTAD, including AL4Animals, and is a collaborating member of the 3B's Research Group-UM and CITAB-UTAD. She is the author of eight book chapters, more than 80 papers, and 180 communications presented at scientific events, and has an h-index of 21 (Scopus/Publons) and over 1650 citations (11/2024, Scopus). She supervised three doctoral theses, 64 master's dissertations, and 16 final Pre-Bologna degree works. She is a member of five FCT-funded I&D projects: PTDC/CVT/67677/2006, SAU-ENB/115179/2009, EME-PME/71273/2006, EME-ME/119093/2010 and EME-SIS/28225/2017 and one by CNPq, Brazil, call CNPQ/MCTI/FNDCT No. 18/2021–track A - emerging groups.