Maria Cristina Pimentel completed her PhD in Latin Literature in 1993 (Univ. of Lisbon). She is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Univ. of Lisbon and a Researcher at the Center for Classical Studies, where she is coordinator of the Area Rescripta and responsible for the group Lusitania: Reception of Ancient Texts in Portuguese Literature. Since 2015 she has been Director of the scientific-pedagogical area of Literature, Arts, and Cultures and a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Scientific Council of the Fac. of Arts. She has been Director of Euphrosyne since 2010, Director of the Center for Classical Studies (2010-2017), and Director of the Department of Classical Studies for several terms. She is the Scientific Coordinator for Portugal of the Red Internacional Evropa Renascens: Textos Grecolatinos para la Construcción de Europa, within which she has been part of research projects funded by the Spanish government. She is a member of the Scientific Board of specialized journals in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Her main scientific area of investigation is classical Latin literature and Roman culture. Her favorite authors are Seneca, Martial, Saint Augustine, and, above all, Tacitus. She translated Propertius (Book II), and coordinated, and annotated the full translation of Martial's Epigrams. She also has publications in the areas of Portuguese Literature and Reception of Classics. Other areas of interest: Ancient history; Didactics of Classical Languages; and sacred oratory (16th-17th). She received the Literary Translation Prize for S. Agostinho, Confissões (2022, 3rd ed., in collab.); and the FCT / União Latina 2008 Scientific and Technical Translation Prize, for S. Agostinho, De Trinitate (in collab. 2007). Among the congresses she organized, the following stand out: the International Colloquium on Classical Literature or Classics in Literature. Classic presences in Portuguese-language literature (coord. w. P. Morão), and has already had seven editions; the Seneca 2022 International Conference What more can we say about Seneca?; the International Teaching Innovation Congress. Instruments and Tools in the Research of Classical Languages (2018); the International Congress on Portuguese and European Humanism on the 5th centenary of Cicero Lusitanus, Jerónimo Osório (2015); the XIV A.D. Congress SAECVLVM AVGVSTVM. The Age of Augustus (2014); the International Congress VIOLENCE IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLD (2014); the International Congress Comunicação e Sedução. O Fulgor da Retórica na Obra do Padre António Vieira (2012). She also belongs to the team that has been organizing, annually since 2013, the meeting of Young Researchers IN FLORE NOVO, which brings together the Univ. of Lisbon and several Univ. in Spain, Italy, and San Marino (last sessions in Évora, March 2023, Castel Sant'Angelo, Italy, September 2023). She has participated in national and international congresses (Cape Verde, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Italy). She has published studies in publishers such as Peeters, Olms, Wiley-Blackwell, Univ. Granada, Pórtico, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, Imprensa Univ. Coimbra. She supervised dozens of theses, doctoral, master's, and post-doctoral projects, as well as Erasmus + internships (students and teachers). She participated in numerous academic juries, in Portuguese and foreign Univ.s, as well as taking part in teaching career juries, and in panels for awarding scholarships and hiring researchers. She is responsible for the Clássicos em Rede project, according to a protocol w. the School Libraries Network and FLUL, which includes among other initiatives the annual holding of the Classical Culture Olympics. She also chairs the Scientific Council of the Portuguese Language Olympiads, org. by the Min. of Education. She has given numerous lectures and training sessions in schools, libraries, and museums She has also intervened in Senior University programs.