Valentina Vitale is currently an associate professor of veterinary medicine at the Cardenal Herrera University in Valencia. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Pisa, where she also completed a PhD in equine physiology with a doctoral thesis on heart rate variability in the horse, which was presented in 2013. Subsequently, she completed an internship and then a residency in equine internal medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and obtained the European specialist diploma in equine medicine in 2020. She has also worked in Africa with the NGO "Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust" and in Australia at the University of Sydney. She is the author and co-author of several national and international publications on equine medicine and innovative teaching.