Ana Mineiro is an Aggregate Professor (Habilitation for Full Professor) in Cognition and Language by UCP since 2016, having also been postdoctoral in Linguistics of Sign Languages ¿¿and Neurolinguistics since 2009. She has also completed her PhD in Linguistics with University of Lisbon in 2005. She was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow from Foundation for Science and Technology. She is an Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and coordinates the Doctoral Program in Cognition and Language Sciences. She runs with Mara Moita the Lang_Lab (Language and Sign Language Lab) in CIIS. Published more than a hundred articles in specialized scientific journals (either national and foreign), participated in events and has 18 chapters and books published and edited. She has also produced technical products such as the Portuguese Sign Language Corpus, the LGP Acquisition Corpus, the Language Development Guidelines for Children with HF, Dictionaries, School Manuals. She was and is Principal Investigator in several projects funded in competitive science calls from several institutions, including FCT, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação PT or INR. Projects have been rated as excellent and relevant to science and the deaf community. Has given around fifty national and international conferences and has been and is a reviewer of prestigious magazines such as Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics as well as publishing adviser in the area of ¿¿deafness, deaf education and sign languages ¿¿for the publisher Oxford University Press. She has belonged to numerous national and international evaluation committees as a specialist of recognized merit both in the field of teaching (e.g. A3ES) and in the area of ¿¿research (e.g. boards for doctoral grants and sabbatical licenses from FCT). She has been a university professor for 25 years. Supervised and co-supervised 33 researchers (3 post-doctorates, 8 doctoral theses and 5 ongoing, 22 master's dissertations). She has received 3 scientific awards from different foundations and academies and a dedication diploma. Between 2001 and 2020, she participated in 8 research projects, of which she coordinated 6 of these as Principal Investigator. She works in the Humanities with an emphasis on Languages ¿¿and Literature and Social Sciences. In her professional activities, he interacted with 58 collaborators in co-authorship of scientific works.