Ana Rita Correia is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering conducting her research at Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), a research unit hosted at the Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal, in collaboration with the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). She concluded the integrated master's degree in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in Clinical Informatics and Bioinformatics from the University of Coimbra in 2021. During her academic path, Rita had the opportunity to participate in an exchange program at the prestigious Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where she acquired valuable skills, mainly in the areas of biomedical data processing and analysis and machine learning. Her MSc dissertation project entitled "Assessing Emotional States from Biosignals in Autistic and Neurotypically Developed Individuals" was carried out at CIBIT and focused on physiological measures of the autonomic nervous system extracted from multimodal biosignals and their relationship with the individual's emotional state, with a special focus on the clinical population of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with the goal of finding optimization strategies for personalized rehabilitation. The work developed during Rita's dissertation project resulted in a paper, entitled "Assessing Arousal Through Multimodal Biosignals: A Preliminary Approach", which she presented at the Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2021. She worked as a researcher at CIBIT-ICNAS in the project "PCIF/SSO/0082/2018 - Training critical decision-making and managing posttraumatic stress disorder in firefighters", a project that was mainly focused on understanding how different variables influence decision-making in dilemmatic situations and how these relate to the individual's emotional perception. Her work included the collection, processing, and analysis of multimodal physiological signals acquired simultaneously with virtual reality simulations and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Currently, Rita is developing her Ph.D. project titled "Physiological Correlates of Interpersonal Interactions as Biofeedback Targets in Autism Spectrum Disorder", a project that proposes to contribute to the understanding of the intricacies of the physiology of human interaction and how it relates to social behavior, with a special focus on the case of ASD. The objectives of the project are to find strong and meaningful markers of physiological synchrony between dyads that are subject to be endogenously controlled and employ these markers in the development of robust models aimed at assessing, in near-real-time, the physiological linkage between their users. The final goal is to integrate these models into a biofeedback pipeline incorporated into collaborative serious games and validate the system as a potential alternative therapeutical tool for social limitations. Rita's interests include biomedical data processing, pattern recognition, physiological synchrony, personalized care, consciousness, emotion, and cognition.