Maria João Faria Leite Dias dos Santos, Associate Professor with Aggregation from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto is a member of CIIMAR, her Research Institution. She received a degree in 1987, a PhD in 1998, and the Aggregate title in 2017, all in Biology. She has developed several projects on the subject of Parasitology of Aquatic Organisms, and she integrated the Working Group of experts on "Parasites of Fishery Products" from the BIOHAZARD Panel, from EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, from the European Community. She had supervised numerous students of pre-graduation, Master's, and PhD, but also several Pos-Docs. She has described several new species and life cycles of parasites and has done several works dealing with parasite ecology. She is currently the Head of the Laboratory of Animal Pathology of CIIMAR and a Faculty Curator of the Museum of Natural History and Science of Porto University. She is also interested in Scientific Dissemination and Scientific Illustration, and she has already organized several Exhibitions on Scientific Illustration topics, most of them as coordinator. She coordinated the first Scientific Illustration course held at Porto University.