Ana Mineiro is Full Professor in Cognitive Sciences, having also had a postdoctoral grant in Linguistics of Sign Languages and Neurolinguistics between 2006 and 2009. She has completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Lisbon in 2005. She was a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow from the Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT). She coordinates the Doctoral Program in Cognition and Language Sciences. She runs the Lang_Lab (Language and Sign Language Lab) in CIIS. More than a hundred articles were published in specialized and indexed scientific journals (national or foreign). She has also produced technical products such as the Portuguese Sign Language Corpus, the LGP Acquisition Corpus, the Language Development Guidelines for Children with IC, Dictionaries, School Manuals, and an AVATAR for Portuguese Sign Language. She was the Principal Investigator in several projects funded in competitive science calls from several institutions, including FCT, Horizon 2020, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação PT or INR. Her projects have been rated excellent and relevant to science and the deaf community. She has given around fifty national and international conferences. She has been and is a reviewer of prestigious magazines such as Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and a 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 in education and research. She has been a university professor for 30 years and supervised and co-supervised 55 researchers ( post-doctorates, PhD and masters students). She has received three scientific awards from different foundations and academies and a dedication diploma. Between 2009 and 2021, she participated in 13 research projects, of which she coordinated 10 as Principal Investigator. She works in the Humanities, emphasizing Sign Language Linguistics, Neurosciences, Cognition, Deaf Education, and Language Evolution. She interacted with 58 collaborators in her professional activities in co-authoring scientific works.