Ana Colette Pereira de Castro Osório Maurício is a Full Professor of Veterinary Sciences at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto (ICBAS-UP). She graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1995, obtained her PhD in Veterinary Sciences in 1999, and completed her Habilitation in 2011. She currently serves as Director of the Department of Veterinary Clinics and of the PhD Programme in Veterinary Sciences at ICBAS-UP. Her research focuses on Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine, particularly the development of cell therapies and biomaterials for translational applications in human and veterinary medicine. She is an integrated researcher at LAQV/REQUIMTE and has led numerous national and international research projects. Professor Maurício has supervised more than 20 completed PhD theses and authored a substantial body of scientific work, including peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and six edited international books. She has an h-index of 34, over 3,600 citations, and is the inventor of seven patents, six of them international. She also contributes to research evaluation and higher education quality assurance through her roles with national and international funding and accreditation agencies.