Helga Waap is head of the parasitolgy laboratory at Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, the National Reference Laboratory for animal diseases in Portugal. Since 2019, she has also lectured the discipline “Pathology and Clinics of Parasitic diseases II” at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ULusófona. Her research covers a wide range of parasites in the entomology, helminthology and protozoology field, with focus on zoonotic diseases. She has over 10 years experience in the research on Toxoplasma gondii and related apicomplexa (Neospora caninum and Besnoitia besnoiti) using serological, in vitro techniques and molecular biology methods. Her most recent research activity addresses the epidemiology of helminthosis in ruminants, genetic resistance to internal parasites and anthelmintic resistance. She has authored or co-authored over 20 scientific publications. Current participation in national and international projects includes EJP projects Toxosources, MEME and PARADISE, FCT project Merinoparasite (principal investigator). She is presently a counterpart of IAEA TC projects RER5025 and RER5027. Further activities included the participation in COST actions as Management committee and/or WG member (CA16230, FA1404 and FA1408), organization of scientific events, peer review of scientific papers, book translation, supervision of master and doctoral theses and several poster and oral communications in national and international conferences.