Piedade Vaz Rebelo completed a degree in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCEUC), and obtained a PhD in Psychology, specializing in Pedagogical Psychology, at the same Faculty in March 2002. From that date until 2015, she worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC), and from that date until the present, she has been an assistant professor at FPCEUC. Throughout her teaching career, she has taught curricular units in FCTUC's Teacher Training Courses and in the Science Education PhD course, and also at FPCEUC's undergraduate, master and PhD courses in Educational Sciences. She has participated in several mobility programs for university teachers, teaching at European universities, namely the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Granada, the University of Bilbao, the University of Barcelona, the University of Mons, the University of Paris Nanterre, La Sapienza University, Rome, and Charles University, Prague. Her scientific activity has primarily focused on educational psychology, particularly the processes of personal and professional development, teacher training, teaching, learning and assessment processes, institutional assessment. She has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including 74 articles in indexed scientific journals, with around 50 of these articles published in journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, or Qualis/Capes. She has also participated in the publication of 5 books and 20 booklets, along with publishing 60 book chapters, 90 articles in conference proceedings, and approximately 189 abstracts. Additionally, she has authored and co-authored around 50 technical reports. Many of her publications have been disseminated through communications at scientific events, including approximately 200 oral communications and 87 poster communications. She has been invited to participate in conferences and seminars in various countries, including France, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, and Scientix, and has conducted training workshops in Spain, Turkey, Italy, and Finland. She was the Principal Investigator of the project "QueSTions - Questioning Scientific Texts," funded by the FCT, and the Principal Investigator and coordinator of the project "Automata for STEM (AutoSTEM) 2018-1-PT01-KA201-047499," the first Erasmus+ project coordinated by the University of Coimbra. She has also been the coordinator of the University of Coimbra's research team for 12 European projects funded by the European Commission and part of the team for six projects funded by FCT. Additionally, she has participated as a National Delegate in the Management Committees of COST networks and in the activities of the Réseau International des Cités de l'Education (RICE). She is the national representative of the Association Internationale de Formation et de Recherche en Education Familiale (AIFREF). Furthermore, she participates in scientific review activities, serving as Review Editor at the journal Frontiers in Education - Higher Education and as a reviewer at the journals Education Sciences, Revista Práxis Educacional, and Revista Iberoamericana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Educativo. She has also been involved in scientific supervision of doctoral and master theses and has served as a member of juries for doctoral exams and master's degrees. Since 2009, she has participated as an expert in the External Evaluation of Schools program, and since 2017, she has been a researcher on the Virtual Observatory for Pedagogical Supervision and Self-Evaluation of Schools project. She is a member of the Research Centre for Earth and Space Sciences of the University of Coimbra (CITEUC) and a member of the Educational Technology Lab (FPCEUC).