Ana Teresa Carneiro has a Law degree (Faculdade de Direito do Porto da Universidade Católica Portuguesa), a Master degree in Judiciary Law (Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho) and is undertaking her PhD at EDIUS - Escuela de Doctorado Internacional de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She was a FCT scholarship holder (ref. 2022.12862.BD) between 2022 and 2024. Ana Teresa Carneiro is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Maia (since 2008), where she teaches Penal Law, Penal Procedural Law, Fundamental Rights and Crime, Security and Prevention (Degree in Criminology), Specific Topics in Criminology (Master in Criminology) and is responsible for an workshop of Law and Forensic Psychology (Master in Forensic Clinical Psychology). She is also Guest Lecturer at the Oporto Faculty of Law of Portuguese Catholic University, where she teaches the Penal Law module in the discipline of Interdisciplinary Practicum and Special forms of the Crime. She also taught Criminology and Penal Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho (Law degree) between 2012-2016. She was a consultant for the areas of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at Jorge Carneiro & Associados (lawyer associates), where she gained relevant and extensive professional experience in the area of criminal appeals. She is also a researcher at UICCC - Research Unit in Criminology and Behavior Sciences (U. Maia) and at JusGov - Research Center for Justice and Governance at the University of Minho, in which she works on topics such as domestic violence, prevention policies and, mainly, judicial system, judicial error and the extraordinary review, which was the topic of her master thesis. She has also integrated IUSCRIM (Investigation Group in Penal Law and Criminology of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), where she is carrying out her PhD. She has numerous publications and interventions, national and international, in the area of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Criminology.