Maria João Faria Leite Dias dos Santos, Associate Professor with Aggregation, from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto and she is member of CIIMAR, her Research Institution. She received a degree in 1987, a PhD in 1998, and the Aggregate title in 2017, all in Biology. She has developed several projects in the subject of Parasitology of Aquatic Organisms, and she integrate the Working Group of experts of "Parasites of Fishery Products", from EFSA, European Food Safety Authority, from European Community. She had supervised numerous students of PhD and Masters (pos-graduation), but also many students at pre-graduation level. Several Pos-Docs had also worked in her laboratory under her supervision. She had described several new species and life cycles of parasites, and has several works dealing with Parasite Ecology. She is currently the Head of the Laboratory of Animal Pathology of CIIMAR, and she is also Faculty Curator of the Museum Natural History and Science of Porto University, organizing the Parasite Collection, that will be moved soon to MNHC-UP. She has also interest in Scientific Dissemination and Scientific Illustration, and she has already organized several Exhibitions on Scientific Illustration topic, most of them as coordinator. She had coordinate the first Scientific Illustration course held in Porto University.