Isabel de Maria Cardoso Gonsalves Mourão. Completed the Habilitation in Agricultural Sciences, in 2022, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, School of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences; the PhD in 1995, University of Reading, Faculty of Agriculture and Food (UK); the MSc in Crop Production, in 1989, University of Bath, School of Biological Sciences (UK) and the Licenciatura in Agricultural Engineering, in 1983, University of Lisbon, Higher Institute of Agronomy. Is Associate Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Higher School of Agriculture (ESA/IPVC), since 1997, where she started in 2008 the MSc in Organic Agriculture, which she coordinates. She was president of the Portuguese Society of Horticultural Science and is a member of the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO). She is co-author and coordinated the books “Manual de Horticultura no Modo de Produção Biológico” (2007) and “Horticultura Social e Terapêutica - Hortas Urbanas e Atividades com Plantas no Modo de Produção Biológico” (Publindústria/Engebook, 2013); co-author of the books “Uma Horta em Casa - Como cultivar plantas hortícolas, aromáticas e flores comestíveis, à janela, na varanda ou no terraço, em modo de produção biológico” (Arteplural Ed., 2015), “A Minha Horta é Biológica” (Arteplural Ed., 2019) and “Caderno da Horta Biológica na Escola” (Ed. EMAC, 2020). She published 37 articles in journals and is co-author of more than two hundred scientific articles in proceedings, book chapters and technical periodicals. She supervised 30 master's theses and participated in several research and innovation projects in the areas of horticulture, ecology, plant physiology and nutrition, social and therapeutic horticulture and organic farming. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4890-6584