Cristina Pinheiro is Associate Professor with Titulation at the University of Madeira and Researcher at the Centre of Classical Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She obtained her PhD in 2009, with the thesis "Orbae matres: A mother's grief at the loss of a child in Latin Literature" published in 2012 (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia/ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian). AT present she is the Head of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the University of Madeira. Between October 2018 and September 2022 she was Principal Investigator of the project "Gynecia: Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano and the ancient medical tradition on gynecology and embryology", funded by the Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (https://projectgynecia.uma.pt/en/). Her main research interest are: Women and Children in Antiquity; Ancient and Early-Modern texts on gynecology and embryology; Studies on Gender in Classical Texts. She is the co-editor, with Bernardo Machado Mota, of the edition and Portuguese translation of Rodrigo de Castro's massive treatise on gynecology, De uniuersa mulierum medicina, published for the first time in Hamburg in 1603.