Marina Fuertes holds a Habilitation (Agregação) and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Porto Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, a Master in Developmental Psychology: Early Intervention - Child Development and Education Psychology University of Porto Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and a degree in Educational Sciences (Psychology) by the University of Lisbon Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. She is an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon-School of Education and Associate Researcher at the University of Porto Psychology Center. She is director of the Master of Early Intervention and co-director of the European Master of Play. She published more than 40 articles in peer review journals and wrote 30 book chapters. Also, edited 3 ebooks and published 1 book. Marina Fuertes received 6 awards/distinctions and 6 merit scholarships. Give more than 200 communications at congresses or by invitations. She is PI (Principal Investigator) in one Academia do Conhecimento da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian project, 2 FCT projects and researcher in 2 other FCT projects. She supervised 1 Ph.D., co-supervised 6 PhDs, supervised more than 50 master's theses. She has been an evaluator of FCT's Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral fellowships. She is the jury of several Awards and Scholarships. In her research activity, she interacted with 41 collaborators in co-authoring scientific works.