Ana Luísa Costa. DDS (2000), MSc (2006), PhD (2013), Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (Portugal). Head of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (Portugal). Assistant Professor of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Nutrition and Dietetics and Paediatric dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (Portugal). Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry by the Portuguese Dental Association (2017). Private clinical practice in Paediatric Dentistry since 2000. Member of the Scientific Committee and of the General Council of the Portuguese Dental Association and of the Board of the College of Specialty of Pediatric Dentistry (2020-...). Present and past main research interests: oral public health; childhood asthma and oral health; type 1 diabetes, metabolome and oral health; early childhood caries and saliva metabolome; dental materials in paediatric dentistry.