Gabriela Martinho is a psychologist with a Master's degree in Psychology of Justice (2011) and a Ph.D. in Applied Psychology (2021) from the School of Psychology at the University of Minho. Since 2022, she has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maia, where she teaches in the Bachelor's in Psychology program and the Master’s in Forensic Clinical Psychology – Intervention with Aggressors and Victims. She is the Coordinator of the Psychology Internship Network at the University of Maia. She is also an invited Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, where she also taught in the Bachelor's program in Psychology. Her research focuses on adverse childhood experiences, trauma-informed approaches, human trafficking, and sexual violence, and she is the co-author of national and international publications in these fields. She is currently a member of the research teams for the following projects funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT): "Dynamics of Intergenerational Transmission of Violence through Biological, Epigenetic, and Psychosocial Pathways" and "Causal Attributions of Vulnerability: Social Accountability, Prejudice, and the Legitimation of Hate Speech." In 2019 and 2021/2022, she held a research fellowship at the Psychology Research Center at the University of Minho, within the Victims, Offenders, and Justice System Research Lab. During this period, she contributed to the external evaluation of the Specialised Multidisciplinary Teams (Association for Family Planning) in the field of Human Trafficking (2021/2022) and joined the research team for the “Study on the Social and Economic Costs of Human Trafficking in Portugal and the Gender Dimensions of Human Trafficking” (2021/2022), funded by the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. She also completed a research internship in 2020, funded by the Luso-American Development Foundation, at the Long Beach Trauma Recovery Center of California State University Long Beach (USA), where she collaborated on psychological interventions for crime victims. She has experience in forensic psychological assessment and in providing psychological support (individual and group) to victims and domestic offenders in shelter and counseling center contexts. Additionally, she served as a trainer in the field of domestic violence, such as Training for Qualified Agents Working in Domestic Violence Prevention and/or Revictimization – Victim Support Technicians.