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Maria Assunção Flores is full professor and Dean of the Institute of Education at the University of Minho. She previously served as Director of the Research Centre on Child Studies at the same institution. She completed her PhD in Education at the University of Nottingham and earlier earned a Master’s degree in Education and a Bachelor’s degree in the Teaching of Portuguese and French at the University of Minho, where she later concluded her Aggregation. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow and UK Leuven. Her academic service includes leadership roles in major international associations. She served as Chair of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching and of the International Council on Education for Teaching. She is was Editor of the European Journal of Teacher Education and currently is Executive Editor of Teaching and Teacher Education and Associate Editor of Teachers and Teaching Theory and Practice. She has published widely, with more than 300 works across books, book chapters and journal articles in different languages. Her research focuses on professionalism and teacher identity, teacher education and professional development, curriculum and assessment, and higher education. She served as a member of the National Council of Education in Portugal coordinating the Commission on Teachers and other Education professionals. Her work has been recognised both nationally and internationally: “Michael Huberman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on the Lives of Teachers”, from the American Educational Research Association, ST²AR (Service to Teachers, Teaching, the Academy and Research), the ICET Research Award (International Council on Education for Teaching), the Dr. Darrell Bloom award for service to education and research. Since 2021 she is part of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” Ranking from the University of Stanford / Elsevier. In Portugal, she was honoured with the award "Women in Science" in 2021 by the Ciência Viva/Foundation for Science and Technology.