Constança Ferreira Pomba is a Tenured Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Antimicrobial Therapy, at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMV-ULisboa). She qualified in Veterinary Medicine in the same institution in 1991. Since 1993, she has developed clinical veterinary microbiology and veterinary internal medicine practice alongside her academic and research activities at FMV-ULisboa as a faculty member. In 1994, Constança obtained her master’s degree in veterinary medicine and tropical zootechnics, and in 2002 her PhD in Veterinary Sciences at FMV-ULisboa. In 2014, she was appointed Team Leader of the Antibiotic Resistance Lab from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health (CIISA) of the University of Lisbon. Constança was awarded in 2019 the Habillitation in Veterinary Sciences – Specialty of Clinics by the University of Lisbon. Since 2021 Constança is a De facto Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology and an EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Microbiology. Constança is the Residency Programme Director in Veterinary Microbiology at the Molecular Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory – Genevet, that she created in 2015, being the owner and CEO.

Constança works daily has consultant in Companion animal internal medicine and in Veterinary Microbiology. Constança research focuses on the antimicrobial treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in animals and the Public Health repercussions of the spread and transmission of these bacterial pathogens and of their resistance genes. She has published more than 100 articles in journals and supervised many PhD and MSc students.