Ana Campilho graduated in Biology from University of Porto (1996), obtained a MSc in Cell Biology from University of Coimbra (2001), and the PhD degree in Developmental Genetics from University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005). Afterwards, Ana Campilho was a researcher at University of Helsinki (Finland) and at IBMC, Porto. Since 2015, Ana Campilho is a researcher at CIBIO and invited professor at Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.