Luis Monteiro Rodrigues is the Chair and Full Professor of Physiology and Mechanisms of Disease/Pathophysiology at Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon campus), being the Dean of the respective School of Health. His research preferences consistently include circulatory physiology and pathology. In relation to this, he has developed extensive activity in skin physiology research as a window to human health. He is the executive director of CBIOS – U.Lusofona’s Research Center in Biosciences and Health Technologies, where he also acts as Principal Investigator. He is responsible for more than 500 communications in his areas of interest and has published many scientific publications, as the main author or co-author, in international journals in these specialties. Under his supervision, three post-doc, eight PhD, more than forty Master's and many undergraduate students have been trained. As a senior academic, he acts as a consultant for national and European authorities in different settings related to higher education and health professions. During his career, he has received several distinctions and awards, both national and international. He recently received (2022) the title of Knight in the Order of St. Michael of the Wing, the oldest (1147) dynastic order in Portugal. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research journal. He is the founder and current Chairman of the Portuguese Society of Physiology (2022-).