Maria do Céu Fialho is a retired Full Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Coimbra since 2019. She was appointed Full Professor in 1998. She was Assistant at the University of Aveiro (1976-1977); Assistant at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra (1977-1988); DAAD scholarship holder at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, between 1980 and 1983, in order to prepare her doctoral dissertation in Greek Literature, "Light and darkness in the theatre of Sophocles", which she presented to the University of Coimbra in 1988. She was then promoted from Assistant to Assistant Professor at the same university. She completed her Aggregation exams in 1995. She has published more than 70 articles in specialised journals and 20 papers in event proceedings, and has more than 60 book chapters and 30 books published. She has lectured at more than half a hundred events abroad and many more in Portugal. She was director of the MA and PhD course Classical Studies - Poetics and Hermeneutics and has supervised more than two dozen PhD and MA theses. She is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History. She was Director of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies between 2000 and 2014. Between 2007 and 2013 she took part in 3 research projects, coordinating 2 of them. She was responsible for two Luso-Spanish Integrated Actions (2000-2004) and a Luso-Brazilian agreement (2013-2015). Between 2017 and 2022 she participated as a researcher in the projects:"Rome our Home: (Auto)biographical Tradition and the Shaping of Identity(ies) PTDC/LLT-OUT28431/2017;"Crisis /staseis) and Changes (metabolai). The Athenian democracy in Contemporary Times" CAPES (Brazil)/FCT 2019-2022.Coordinated Erasmus exchange protocols with the Univ. Complutense of Madrid, Univ. of Valladolid, Univ. of Freiburg (Germany) and Munich, Univ. of Perugia and Trento. Her teaching and research activity is in the field of Greek Literature (Theatre, Historiography, Biography), Ancient Philosophy, Ethics and Poetics, Reception studies.