Pilar M. Muñoz, PhD in Veterinary Medicine (University of Zaragoza 2005), has been working on animal brucellosis research for over 20 years and is specialized in development of brucellosis vaccines, animal models, diagnostic techniques, epidemiology and control and eradication strategies. Currently, she is the head of brucellosis research line at the Animal Science Department of CITA and collaborator with the Government of Aragon (Spain) in official brucellosis eradication campaings and wildlife surveillance programs. She has participated in 15 research projects on brucellosis (acting as coordinator or principal researcher in 4 of them), including 3 European Union funded projects. She is author or co-author of 3 Book Chapters, 53 research articles and more than 45 contributions to research conferences on this topic. She has been consultor and trainer on brucellosis diagnostics, epidemiology and control for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC), AGROTEC (EuropeAid) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-4929.