Maria João Morais Gouveia has been a lecturer at ISPA since 1998 and an Associate Professor since 2023. In 2011 she completed her PhD in Health Psychology. Her initial training, at the undergraduate level (5 years), was in Social and Organizational Psychology. She currently serves as Vice-Rector at Ispa, is director of the License Degree in Psychology, and is an effective member of the Scientific Council and the Ethics Committee of this Institution were she previously served as President of the Pedagogical Council as well. Her teaching activity has focused on the areas of Assessment in Health Psychology, Psychology of Well-being, Psychology of Exercise and Physical Activity and in the scope of research methodologies, having supervised more than 100 master's theses and seven doctoral theses with two already completed in the area of Clinical and Health Psychology and Educational Psychology. In the first ten years of her professional activity, as a psychologist, she worked in the area of Sport and Exercise Psychology and was also involved in research and on the development of Ispa’s postgraduate training offer in this area. In the field of research, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Psychology Research Center – Capabilities and Inclusion (APPSY-CI; Ispa – University Institute) where she coordinates the Human Potential - Well-being and Health Group and where she develops research based on psychosocial factors that affect well-being, health outcomes and adjustment to disease, seeking also to identify the psychological and behavioral processes through which these relationships are established. Within the scope of these investigations, the work of construction, adaptation and validation of psychometric assessment instruments is frequent. She has published 38 articles in specialized journals and 4 book chapter(s). Throughout her career, she has also been involved in research projects, mostly invested in the development of socio-emotional skills and well-being of students, namely university students, such as SunStar (Supporting UNiversity STudents At Risk of droping out) e HOPEs (Happiness, Optimism, Positivity & Ethos in schools), both funded by ERAMUS + programme KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices (Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education) of the European Commission. In her professional activities, she interacted with 274 collaborator(s) in co-authorship of scientific papers. The most frequent terms in the contextualization of her scientific production are: Health & well-being, Eudaimonia, Eudaimonic well-being, Spiritual Well-being, Construct validity, Exercise, Flow theory, Physical Activity, measurment, psychological benefits of interventions, meditative movement exercise and adherence.