Fernando Coimbra holds a PhD from the University of Salamanca and Post-doctoral research in rock art in the Geosciences Centre (University of Coimbra). His studies of rock art inspired a further interest in horses and their role in society, especially in protohistory. In 2013 he coordinated an international congress about the horse and the bull in prehistory and in history. He is a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, in Portugal.