Prof. Dr. Alfredo Teixeira has been a Professor at the Agrarian School of Polytechnic Institut of Bragança since 1984. He earned a degree in Animal Science from the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in 1984; an MSc in Animal Science from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza in 1987; a Doctorate in Animal Science from UTAD in 1991; and an Aggregation in Sheep and Goat Production from UTAD in 1995. He has been working in sheep and goat carcass evaluation and meat quality. He also has been working in methodologies to assess in vivo body and carcass composition using real-time ultrasound (RTU) technology as well as image analysis techniques and recently infrared spectroscopy (NIRs) technology. He has coordinated several research projects in the areas of sheep and goat production and meat science.