Website link: www.Excophysio.com. Cathérine Delesalle graduated from the Ghent University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Belgium, in 1997 (magna cum laude) and then directly started working as a veterinarian at the Large Animal Internal Medicine Animal Hospital of the Ghent University. In 2008 (18/03/2008) she successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled: 'Ileus in the colic horse: prognostic factors and the role of serotonin and serotonergic receptors (Promotors: Prof. Piet Deprez, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Prof. Romain Lefebvre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences). From 2008 to 2013, Cathérine left Belgium for a full-time position as Assistant Professor at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Equine Sciences. During those 5 years, she combined clinical work with management tasks and the promotorship of three Phds (Sara Torfs, Margreet Ploeg and Veronique Saey). She remained during this time, Visiting Professor at the Ghent University. In 2009, she became Board certified by examination at the ECEIM: European College of Equine Internal Medicine (Member of EBVS). In 2013, Cathérine returned to the Veterinary Faculty of the Ghent University and completed a BOF Tenure Track position, again as Assistant professor. In 2018 she became Associate Professor and linked her Research Group to what is now the Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology & Public Health. During the past decade, she has created and grown her research team: Research Group of Comparative Physiology. The team has already carried out research for major industrial partners and combined clinical trials and basic research. The comparative aspect of performed research, across animal species and human, broadens insights into physiological feedback and coping processes, which is of great importance to understand pathophysiological processes and identify possible therapeutic avenues. The Research group of Comparative physiology focuses on exercise physiology in all its aspects: metabolic/endocrinological interactions, the effect of different types of exercise and dietary interventions on muscular and gut physio-plasticity, ergogenic and regenerative management and neurophysiological assessment in a comparative approach. Novel and innovative research techniques and study set-ups are applied and combined with more conventional analysis techniques which allows for exploring the possible existence of previously unknown pathways and coping mechanisms.