RICARDO JORGE DINIS-OLIVEIRA, PhD, European PhD, DSc, is a Toxicologist and Forensic Sciences Expert. He develops its scientific and academic activity in the areas of Toxicology and Pharmacology of Psychoactive Substances, Pesticides and Medicines, in their preclinical, clinical, and forensic aspects, and in Forensic Medicine, namely the development of mathematical models to calculate the postmortem interval, known as the Holy Grail of Forensic Sciences. He has been supervising several Integrated Master's dissertations, Master's dissertations, and PhD theses. He is a member of the Editorial Board and Ambassador of several International Scientific Journals. He is the author of more than 160 articles published (representing more than 4700 citations) in international indexed journals, with peer review, and author of about 36 book chapters, 4 books and 4 national and 3 international patents. He is the author of Guidelines in Forensic Sciences for Clinical and Forensic Toxicological samples collection, with an international scope and has received recognition for his Pedagogical Excellence in Higher Education that resulted in international scientific publications. Regularly presents Oral Communications / Conferences and in the form of Posters in Scientific Meetings, which globally number around 250 and organizes, on a regular basis, several scientific events, namely congresses, conference circles, lectures, workshops or seminars. He coordinated the Self-Assessment Commissions for various accreditation processes of "new" or "in operation" Cycle of Studies by the Higher Education Accreditation Agency (A3ES) and has been an A3ES expert since 2019. He is an Associate Professor with Habilitation (Aggregation) at the University Institute of Health Sciences and of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto. He is Director of the Research Unit TOXRUN - Toxicology Research Unit of IUCS and integrated researcher of UCIBIO-REQUIMTE - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit/ Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry, Clean Technologies, and Processes. He is currently Director of the Department of Sciences, Coordinator of the 1st Cycle of Studies in Forensic Laboratory Sciences, Coordinator of the 1st Cycle of Studies in Biomedical Sciences and was Coordinator of the 2nd Cycle of Studies in Forensic Laboratory Sciences and Techniques of IUCS until 2021. He is a member of several Academic Management Bodies, namely the Pedagogical, Scientific and Management Councils of the University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), member of the Installing Committee for the accreditation process of the IUCS Integrated Master's in Medicine and member of the Monitoring Committee of the 2nd and 3rd Cycles of Studies in Forensic Sciences of the University of Porto. He holds the Young Scientist Award in Forensic Toxicology awarded by the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists and has received the Medal of Merit in Sciences, awarded by the City Council of Santo Tirso, and the Young Forensic Scientist Award 2016 from the Portuguese Association of Forensic Sciences (Prof. Doutor Duarte Nuno Vieira Award). In 2021 he integrated the World’s Top 2% Scientists list, which ranks the most highly cited scientists. He is the founder and current President of the Portuguese Association of Forensic Sciences (APCF) and was Vice-president of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Abuse and Neglect (SPECAN). According to SCOPUS, his current h index is 30.