Cristina Pinheiro is Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira since 2009 and Researcher at the Centre of Classical Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon since 2007. She obtained her PhD in 2009, with the thesis "Orbar matres: A mother's grief at the loss of a child in Latin Literature" published in 2012. 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.