Maria Luisa Portocarrero Ferreira da Silva is a Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra since 2001, having attained her aggregation in 1999. She specialises in Hermeneutics, having published extensively on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Gadamer, as well on different topics in the fields of ethics, applied ethics and philosophical anthropology. Topics of interest include practical wisdom, fragility, narrativity and different topics on bioethics. She was founder and group leader of the research group "Hermeneutical Rationality" at the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies (CECH), where she is a researcher. She is a correspondent of the Fonds Ricoeur, Vice-President of the Sociedad Interuniversitaria de Filosofia Santiago de Compostela (Sifa), member of the Academia Xacobea and the International Institute of Hermeneutics, and Affiliate Professor of the Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw. She published 7 books, edited 6 other books, 38 papers in peer reviewed journals, 45 book chapters, three introductions, and one translation. She supervised or co-supervised 9 doctoral dissertations and 8 masters' theses. She was a speaker in ca. 100 events and coorganized 15 scientific events, and she was a member of more than 100 juries, including the juries of academic degrees (masters', PhDs and aggregations) and juries for the position of academic faculty (assistant, associate or full professors).