Leonor Costa is an Auxiliary Professor at Lusófona University, and an integrated member of the HEI-Lab (Digital Human-environment Research Lab) R&D unit, where she coordinates the new Laboratory “Social, Behavior, Environment and Culture Lab”. She is the PI of the the project “Fighting Prejudice: Prejudice reduction through indirect intergroup contact in virtual settings”, funded by Instituto Lusófono de Investigação e Desenvolvimento (Peer reviewed Fazer+ Program; ILIND/F+/EI/03/2020). She collaborated in the implementation of a pedagogical project aimed at students' involvement in research, which was awarded with the distinction of Good Practices of Research in Teaching, by ILIND (2020). Leonor Costa holds a PhD in Psychology from CIS-IUL of ISCTE (2020), with a thesis titled "Navigating social class in childhood: Development of Intergroup relations and Self-Categorization". Completed her degree in Psychology in University of Porto (2006) and her master's degree in Data Mining and Data Analysis at ISCTE (2010). She was an Applied Research Assistant at the Research Center of Public Opinion of the Catholic University of Portugal (2006-2015), where she coordinated and collaborated in numerous research projects (e.g., EpireumaPT; International Social Survey Program; National Epidemiological Study of Psychiatric Morbidity). Her research focuses on intergroup relations and behaviors of social inclusion and exclusion, and how digital environments can be used towards a more inclusive society. Given her strong background in research methodology and data analysis, she is involved in research in other domains working closely with researchers from different fields of research. Leonor Costa has been collaborating in several R&D projects funded by FCT, such as “The social development of Human Values in Childhood and Adolescence” (PTDC/SOC-SOC/30635/2017) and “Animals in Disasters: Liminal Becomings, reframing human-animal relations in natural disasters” (CEECIND/02719/2017), and in Erasmus + Projects such as “ALERRT: Autism on the Line! Educating first Responders on how to Recognise and Treat Individuals with autism”. She also has helped organize Summer Schools for training young researchers ("Verão com Ciência" initiative of the FCT).