Ana Colette Maurício has held a degree in Veterinary Medicine since 1995, a Ph.D in Veterinary Sciences since 1999 from Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMV) - Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), and Habilitation in Veterinary Sciences (ICBAS-UP) since 2011. The Ph.D experimental work was developed at Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC) in Oeiras, Portugal, at Freiburg Medicine Faculty in Germany, and at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). At the present time, she is a Full Professor at the Veterinary Clinics Department of Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto (UP). She is the Director of the Veterinary Sciences Doctoral Program at ICBAS-UP. She is the Scientific Coordinator of the Regenerative Medicine and Experimental Surgery sub-unit from Centro de Estudos de Ciência Animal (CECA) of Instituto Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto (ICETA). She is the supervisor of several Ph.D, Postdoctoral, and Master's students (16 Ph.D theses concluded, 14 Ph.D theses ongoing), and co-author of a large number of scientific articles and book chapters published in Indexed Journals. She was the principal researcher for several national and international scientific projects; is the editor of four international scientific books; and is the inventor of three international patents.