Diego de Sousa Dantas, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, where he teaches and supervises undergraduate, MSc, and PhD students. He holds a degree in Physiotherapy, an MSc in Biological Sciences/Biophysics, and a PhD in Biotechnology and Health. His academic work spans rehabilitation, cancer survivorship, women’s health, chronic pain, therapeutic exercise, functioning, and patient-reported outcomes. He has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed articles, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and clinical studies addressing functional impairments, pain, treatment-related symptoms, and rehabilitation across different clinical populations. He has held academic and institutional leadership positions at UFPE and has served in professional organisations related to oncology physiotherapy and postgraduate physiotherapy education. His current research interests focus on chronic pain, rehabilitation, therapeutic exercise, integrative and non-pharmacological interventions, and biopsychosocial determinants of treatment response.