Dr Isabel C. Olegário is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). She earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) with honours from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she also completed her specialist training in Paediatric Dentistry in 2015. She subsequently pursued her Master’s, PhD, and Postdoctoral studies, focusing on treatment options for dentine caries in primary molars. In 2017, she participated in a split-fellowship PhD programme at the Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Netherlands, and in 2024, she completed her D.Ch.Dent in Paediatric Dentistry at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Dr Olegário has been actively involved in clinical trials and systematic reviews, contributing to research in Cariology, Restorative Materials, Minimal Intervention Dentistry, Molar-Incisor Hypomineralisation, and Dental Traumatology. She has a strong passion for dental education, with a particular interest in innovative teaching methods to enhance undergraduate training. She has received multiple teaching and research awards, including the Teaching of the Year award from undergraduate dental students in 2022 and 2024. Her research has been recognised with international awards at the 2024 World Congress of Dental Traumatology, IAPD 2021, EAPD 2020, IADR 2019 & 2018. Dr Olegário is the past-president of the Irish Society of Dentistry for Children (ISDC) and serves on the editorial board of the European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD Journal). She is a member of the European Association of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD), International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT), and International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD).