Raquel Costa is  Associate Professor at Lusofona University with teaching experience since 2009, and Executive Director of the HEI-Lab. She is Auxiliary Researcher recently awarded (2023) with an individual FCT contract (CEEC) to study brain synchrony and biobehavioral pathways of caregiver-child co-regulation associated with early developmental and mental health problems. She has PhD in Clinical psychology, She have been highly motivated and actively engaged for nearly 15 years in the study of the interaction between environmental and psychophysiological mechanisms, and identification of modifiable risk factors of early psychopathology.