Ana Cristina Rego (Ph.D.) is Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), lecturing Biochemistry, Neuroscience, and Neurobiology classes. She coordinates the Master in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience at FMUC. She is also the head of the research group ‘Mitochondria and Neurodegenerative Disorders’ at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Univ. Coimbra (CNC-UC), since 2003. The research group investigates molecular mechanisms of familial and age-related neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, focusing on changes in mitochondrial function, dynamics, biogenesis and metabolic deregulation, glutamatergic postsynaptic dysfunction, and related exosomal content. AC Rego holds an h-factor of 61 (i10=139, on Google Scholar) with more than 11800 citations, and has published more than 140 peer-reviewed articles and 23 book chapters (11 in Portuguese).