She, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Minho. She teaches at the graduation and master levels and is the scientific supervisor of several Master and PhD Thesis. She Is a member of the Pedagogical Council and the Psychology Research Centre (CIPsi), being the coordinator of the Development and Psychopathology LAB, and inside this LAB, she coordinates the Research Group on Positive Development and Optimal Functioning. This Research Group aims to study the quality of subjective experience in daily life, crossing personal and contextual variables, to understand optimal patterns of human functioning (through cognitive, affective, motivational and behavioural dimensions). Conceptually, she follows an ecological approach, through a positive youth development perspectives. Studies include mixed-method approaches, using traditional retrospective self-report (e.g., scales and questionnaires) and innovative methodologies based on real-time measures (e.g., Experience Sampling Method ¿ ESM). The team integrates undergraduate, master and PhD students, professional psychologists, and several international collaborations. Topics of research include: well-being, happiness and optimal experience/flow experience, emotions and emotion regulation, studied in different normative life contexts, such as leisure, family and schools, and clinical contexts (individual and group interventions), mainly focused on adolescents/youth lives. Projects aim to study the developmental trajectories of adolescents/youth using an integrated and equally weighted focus on positive and negative functioning in adolescence. At the University of Minho, she is the scientific coordinator of the Peer Tutoring and Mentoring UMinho Programs aimed to promote students' transversal skills from the first years until the transition to the labour market. She was a founder member of the Centre IDEA-UMinho, which aims to involve the Organic Units and the University's teaching staff in the development of innovative teaching and learning practices. She is also the president of the General Assembly of the Psychological Association of the University of Minho (APsi-UMinho), coordinating the Consultation on Psychological Development of Adolescents. This Association provides psychology services to the community (inside and outside the university), and its mission is to promote and develop scientific-based intervention projects for interaction with society. She belongs to the World Leisure Organization, being the Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Leisure and Well-Being. She has several international and national publications, such as scientific papers, books and book chapters, and contributes to the dissemination of scientific knowledge through communications at Conferences on studied topics, in official media or other interactions with the lay communities.