António Morais obtained his degree in Medicine in 1993, by Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP), Portugal. After two years of general practice, he worked as Resident in Pulmonology at Respiratory Diseases Department in Hospital São João, (Oporto, Portugal) between 1996 and 2002 and became at this time Pulmonology Assistant initially at Hospital Joaquim Urbano between 2002 and 2004 and since than at Respiratory Diseases Department in Hospital São João. The main interests in Pulmonology is Diffuse Lung Diseases, Bronchoscopy, Lung Cancer and Pulmonary Hypertension. He is the coordinator of Diffuse Lung Diseases Group since 2006 and member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Group since 2008 and member of Lung Cancer Group since 2008. He is an interventional bronchoscopist and in 2014 introduced in Portugal a new diagnostic tool through bronchoscopy, the cryobiopsies, specially related with Diffuse Lung Diseases diagnosis. Since 2014, after a national concurse, he is a Pulmonology Consultant (previous Graduated Assistant). He is an assessor of the clinical direction Hospital de São João since July 2019. He was member of the Ordem dos Médicos Pulmonology Board (Colégio da Especialidade) during two mandates, 2010-2012 and 2012-2014. Since 2016 he is the Consultor or Diffuse Lung Diseases for the Direção Geral da Saúde Respiratory National Program. Since 2016 he is a member of Comissão de Avaliação de Tecnologias de Saúde (CATS) from INFARMED. He is currently the President of Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia (2019-2021). Since the beginning of the Pulmonology Residency, he joined FMUP as an invited speaker and researcher, having participated in multiple curricular units and activities of pregraduate and postgraduate curricular program. He developed studies in the area of respiratory diseases in medicine and molecular oncology, having completed his master’s thesis ‘HLA e polimorfismos genéticos de citocinas inflamatórias na caracterização imunogenética da sarcoidose’ in 2009. He subsequently developed research in the area of Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD), having completed his PhD thesis ‘Doenças Pulmonares Difusas: do fenótipo ao genótipo’ in 2016, at FMUP, under supervision of Prof. Doutor Agostinho Marques and Prof. Doutor Luis Delgado. He currently is Associated Professor of Medicine in the same institution. He is tutor of three master studies and two PhD tesis. He was member of the jury in several master dissertation in various institutions. Since 2018 he is researcher in i3S. He has tutored 54 pulmonology residents in the area of ILD. He has also tutored 4 pulmonology residents’ internship ate Hospital de São João. He is an active member of European Respiratory Society (ERS), World Association of Sarcoidosis and Others Granulomatous Diseases (WASOG) and Portuguese Pneumology Society (SPP). He has published results from his research in multiple peer-reviewed journals with impact factor, with more than 70 publications. Author and co-author of 314 oral presentations/posters in National and International Scientific Meetings. He has also been invited to 87 Lectures/Conferences as Speaker at National and International Scientific Meetings. He is also a National Coordinator and Principal Investigator in several clinical trials, namely in Diffuse Lung Diseases, Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Hypertension and COPD. He was chief-editor of Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (Pulmonology since 2019) since 2012 and 2019. During his leadership, the impact factor increased from 0.25 to the actual 2.096. Currently he is a reviewer of European Respiratory Journal, American Review of Respiratory Diseases and Critical Care, BMC pulmonary Medicine Sarcoidosis, Vascultis and Other Diffuse Lung Diseases and Pulmonology.