Angela da Costa Maia has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho (UM) and Habilitation in Applied Psychology. She is Associate professor, Head of the Department of Applied Psychology at the UM School of Psycholoy and Director of the Master in Justice Psychology. From 2016 to 2022 she was Vice-President of the School and for several years was on the board of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. She is Vice-Director of Doctoral College of University of Minho and Representative of PHD pursuit in the European ARQUS Alliance UM belongs. She was the coordinator of the Laboratory on Victims,​ Offenders and Justice System from 2011 to 2022 at the UM Center for Research in Psychology. She leads the Trauma and stress Consultation Psychotherapy Group. She has collaborated and is the coordinator of several research projects in the area of trauma, justice and violence, being the author or co-author of many publications on these themes. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Military Stress Resource Center of the Ministry of Defense and has coordinated several projects with funding from the Northern Regional Health Administration, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and, from 2016, the Ministry of Defense. Recently she proposed two courses at University of Minho, to promote competencies for compreension, evaluation and intervention with victims to professionals working with those vulnerability groups. The first one is already finished with a great sucess.