Carla Sá Couto is a clinical simulation educator and researcher, with a background in Biomedical Engineering. She has been involved with simulation-based research for over 20 years. Currently, she is a researcher at the Department of Department of Community Medicine, Health Information and Decision (MEDCIDS) and RISE-Health, and an affiliated professor at FMUP, being responsible for several simulation-based pre- and post-graduation courses and national/international research projects. Since 2015, she is a member of SESAM (Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine) Scientific Committee. In 2017, she was appointed chair of SESAM Scientific Committee (5-years term). Currently, she is a member of the SESAM Executive Committee and chair of the European Simulation Research Network (SiReN@SESAM). Since February 2022, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) and chair of the scientific committee. She is a member and instructor of EuSim - European Clinical Simulation Instructor Group, being the Portuguese representative and course director. She is co-inventor of a high-fidelity obstetric simulator, whose technology was transferred to one of the leading international medical simulators companies. She has coordinated the development of controlled-cost technological applications for biomedical simulation. She has supervised 19 students (PhD students, MSc students, and trainees). She has published 1 book, 3 book chapters, 25 publications in international journals with peer review, 48 communications in peer-reviewed proceedings, and 46 oral presentations at scientific meetings, with 20 of those as an invited speaker. In, 2015, she received an Appreciation Award from the National Ministry of Defense for the work on the evaluation and reorganization of the Biomedical Simulation Center of the Portuguese Armed Forces. In 2016, she received SESAM distinction "In recognition of your significant contribution to SESAM missions". In 2017, she was awarded with an Honourable Mention from University of Porto for the pedagogical innovation project "Training communication skills with pediatric simulated scenarios". In 2019, she was awarded by MED.IDEAS (NORTEXCEL - Norte2020) for the project "CPR.PT- CardioPulmonary Resuscitation Personal Trainer". Her current research interests are the development of methodologies and tools applied to healthcare simulation, faculty development strategies for simulation-based training, and the impact of non-technical skills training on healthcare provider's attitudes/behaviours.