Benjamín Costas earned a PhD degree in Animal Science from the University of Porto in 2011. B. Costas is currently a Senior Researcher and coordinator of the Animal Health and Aquaculture (A2S) team at CIIMAR. B. Costas is currently participating in several national and international projects, carries out contracts with the industry, and coordinates a young team of strongly motivated researchers in the field of nutritional immunology as a main research line. Neuro-endocrine/immune crosstalk is also a hot topic within the A2S team, with two running projects aiming to study how nutrition can modulate immune and endocrine (e.g., cortisol level) responses in stressed animals. B. Costas has published more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, with an h index of 24, and most of them (circa 80%) in Q1 journals. B. Costas has also published three book chapters and contributed more than 100 communications to international conferences. B. Costas has been invited to give state-of-the-art lectures on his field of research at local and international workshops and seminars. B. Costas is currently coordinating two FCT projects, one PT2020 in co-promotion with companies and one H2020, and is participating in eight research projects. B. Costas is also a member of the Animal Science PhD Programme Scientific Committee (ICBAS-UP) and CIIMAR’s Organism of Animal Welfare (ORBEA). B. Costas is currently supervising six postdocs, nine PhDs and ten MSc students.