Joana Simões started her career as a horse veterinarian in 2011 at the Equine Unit of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (FMV-ULisboa), where she worked for 6 years, focusing on equine internal medicine, anesthesia, and intensive care. Since 2007, in collaboration with Professor Paula Tilley, she has been conducting research on severe asthma in horses and laryngeal function, having followed this line of investigation in her Ph.D. research. In 2020, she completed her Ph.D. in veterinary sciences through clinical research at the University of Lisbon. This research focused on better characterizing severe equine asthma and on the development of a staging method based on clinical information and lung function. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the equine clinic at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, acting as coordinator of the equine clinical academic division. She has been a member of the clinical research laboratory at CIISA-FMV-ULisboa since 2013, focusing her research on equine respiratory and sports medicine, equine internal medicine, and equine analgesia.