Inês A. Trindade is a licensed clinical psychologist and Research Fellow affiliated to CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, in Portugal, with expertise in behavioural medicine. She has a a PhD in Clinical Psychology (2018), a Master’s in Clinical and Health Psychology (2013), and a Bachelor’s in Psychological Sciences (2011) from the University of Coimbra. Since 2012 she has done training and research in contextual behavioural science, contemplative practices, and behavioural medicine-related topics. Her PhD thesis ("Emotion regulation and chronic illness: The roles of acceptance, mindfulness, and compassion in physical and mental health") focused on the development and validation of illness-specific emotion regulation measures and on the study of the impact of psychological processes on psychological and physical outcomes in chronic illness (mainly in inflammatory bowel disease and cancer). Her PhD studies also comprised the development and test of efficacy of an acceptance, mindfulness, and compassion-based intervention adapted to cancer patients, the Mind programme. Her current research interests mainly focus on developing and testing the efficacy of face-to-face and digital contextual behavioural interventions on mental health, inflammatory markers, and microbiota, in diverse populations of chronically ill patients (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, chronic pain). She is the Co-Principal Investigator of the "LIFE with IBD: Living with Intention, Fullness and Engagement with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The impact of a group intervention and an ICT-based transcultural intervention on physical and mental health" R&D project, and the Research Fellow of the “iACT with Pain: an ICT-delivered intervention for self-management of chronic pain” R&D project, both funded by FCT. She is also responsible for the projects “Low Intensity Internet Therapy for Chronic Illness (@LIIT-CI): An online brief contextual intervention for young people with medical conditions”, "Fear of contracting COVID-19, quarantine, and mental health: An international study exploring implications for inflammatory bowel disease patients", and "The impact of COVID-19 infection on psychological outcomes: A study with survivors". Inês teaches and mentors (as invited lecturer or supervisor) undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students in the field of Clinical and Health Psychology since 2014. She received a Student Spotlight Award by the Association for Behavioral Contextual Science in 2018, and in 2019 a scholarship to participate as New Investigator in the 2019 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute (New York, USA). Inês is a Board member of the “ACT for Health” Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral Contextual Science, and a member of the Psychogastrenterology Section of the Rome Foundation (invited), the Portuguese Association for Mindfulness, the Portuguese Association for Behavioral Therapy, and the Order of Portuguese Psychologists. She has authored or co-authored 50 papers (24 as first and corresponding author, and corresponding author in an additional 9) on contextual behavioural science topics in peer-reviewed international journals with impact factor (mostly in Q1 or Q2 journals - total impact factor points: 103.592), that have resulted in over 500 citations (google scholar; h index: 15). Eight of these papers were a result from international collaboration. Inês has attracted over 300.000€ in research funding as Co-Principal Investigator or grant recipient.