Raquel Matos is an Associate Professor, Member of the Research Centre for Human Development and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She completed her Master in Psychology of Justice in 2000 at the University of Minho, presenting a thesis on the topic of child abuse and neglect. Later, in 2007, she was awarded her PhD in Psychology (funded by the FCT¿Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) from University of Minho. Her PhD thesis focused on gender, crime and punishment, through the analysis of life trajectories of young women serving prison sentences in Portugal. Following her thesis, she published the book "Unusual lives of usual girls: life pathways, meanings of crime and identity construction in young women inmates". In this same area, she developed research projects and supervised master and doctoral theses. Since 2008 she added the topic of migrations to her research interests and was the Principle Investigator of an FCT-funded project about the ¿life trajectories of foreign national women prisoners¿, having published articles and book chapters about gender, migrations and crime. More recently, Raquel Matos has been coordinating in Portugal several European projects on youth delinquency, being particularly interested in exploring young offenders¿ life pathways and experiences in the justice system. She coordinated the Portuguese team of the Project Promise-Promoting Youth Involvement and Social Engagement: Opportunities and challenges for 'conflicted' young people across Europe, funded by Horizon 2020. This project had an impact on the 10 partner countries, through the creation of tools for professionals working with young people at risk as well as for young Europeans themselves, and also through academic indicators. During her career, Raquel Matos has always valued networking with academics from other scientific areas, with emphasis on sociology, anthropology and law, and with academics and professionals from other countries. She was a visiting researcher at the Universities of Bath (2004; 2005), Toronto (2012) and Oxford (2013). From january 2020 to january 2024, she coordinated the UCP team of the Erasmus+ Project SUCCESS, , aimed at enhancing capacity in Latin American universities to develop criminology programs. As an integrated researcher at CEDH, Raquel Matos currently leads the ‘Trajectories, Identities and Justice’ Research Group. The group hosts 15 researchers, including PhD and Master’s students developing their theses, undergraduate students and external researchers.