Cristina Costa Santos holds a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, a MSc in Statistics and Information Management from NOVA Information Management School, and a PhD in Clinical and Health Services Research from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. She is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. With an h-index of 25, Cristina Costa Santos has published more than one hundred scientific articles, over 80 of which are full articles published in journals indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge. She has been teaching biostatistics for almost 30 years. She is also the Director of the Master's program in Evidence and Decision in Health.