Lluís Ferrer obtained his DVM degree at the University of Zaragoza – Spain (1981) and a MSc in Animal Pathology and a PhD at the Veterinary School of Hannover (Germany) in 1985. Since 1985 he has been lecturing Pathology and Dermatology at the Veterinary School of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain). In 1994 he was Board-Certified Dermatologist by the European College of Veterinary Dermatology. Between 2012 and 2017 he was Professor of Dermatology at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, in Boston, Massachusetts (USA) and in 2018 he came back to the UAB. Among other topics, his investigations have been focused on canine leishmaniasis, demodicosis, atopic dermatitis and on the genetic background of the skin diseases.