Daniel Maria Bugalho Rijo (Daniel Rijo) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (FPCE-UC). He has a PhD in Clinical Psychology (2010). He is the Coordinator of the Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioural Intervention since July 2023, where he also coordinates the Research Group Cognitive and Behavioural Processes and Change: Health and Psychopathology in Different Settings. This group focuses its research on emotion regulation processes, vulnerability and maintenance factors of psychopathology, processes associated with therapeutic change, and 3rd-wave empirically-based psychological interventions. He is member of the Advisory Board of the European Association for Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology and other involved Professions (EFCAP) since 2012, and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Portuguese Association of Entrepreneurs for Social Inclusion (EPIS), since 2013. He is full member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, and was recognized as expert psychologist in Clinical and Health Psychology (with advanced expertise in Psychotherapy, and Forensic Psychology). He was also recognized by the Ministry of Health as Clinical Psychologist, corresponding to the special career in the National Health Service, since 1997. He is a certified psychotherapist and supervisor by the Portuguese Association of Behaviour Therapy/European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies since 2000. He is co-founder, member, certified schema therapist and supervisor of the International Society for Schema Therapy since 2008. Recently, he has been training to become certified as compassion focused therapist by the Compassionate Mind Foundation (UK). He has been teaching in graduation and post-graduation degrees, on courses related with Cognitive-Behaviour Therapies, Personality Disorders, and Offender Rehabilitation Programs, including IPV offenders. He has been Principal Researcher and Co-Principal Researcher in several R&D projects, 5 of them under FCT/COMPETE financing (all concluded), in addition to other R&D projects where he participated as researcher, in the areas of clinical and/or forensic psychology. He was supervisor of two post-doctoral projects and has been supervising/co-supervising 15 PhD students (5 concluded; 13 of them with FCT PhD Grants). He was supervisor of more than 70 Master Dissertations, most of them in Clinical Psychology and Forensic Psychology. He is the author/co-author of more than 90 papers, 77 in international peer review scientific journals, as well as books and book chapters (22). He is also author/co-author of several structured intervention handbooks, some of them already tested or under investigatin in diverse R&D projects. He made more than 220 presentations by invitation and in scientific meetings with peer review, in national and international conferences. He was reviewer for several international scientific journals over the last years and has participated in the evaluation panels for PhD grants of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and in the Assessment/Accreditation of Study Programs by the A3ES (Portuguese Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation for university degrees), both as a panel member and as president. His current research interests include: the efficacy of compassion-based interventions (individual and group format); neurophysiological correlates of emotion (dys)regulation processes; the efficacy of offender rehabilitation programs for young, adult offenders and IPV offenders; changeability of psychopathic traits in youth; and the impact of intervention programs for caregivers of youth at risk.