Marina Sofia Oliveira Saraiva, PhD in Physiotherapy from the Faculty of Sports of the University of Porto in January 2023. She has been a Professor of the Physiotherapy degree course and the Physiotherapy Master since November 2022. She received the award for best doctoral thesis in the field of Biomechanics, by the Portuguese Society of Biomechanics/X National Congress of Biomechanics (2023) and the Behavioral Sciences 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. She is a researcher at the Robocorp Laboratory and the Mechanical Engineering Research Centre (CEMMPRE)- University of Coimbra, developing research interests in neurosciences, pain, dual-task paradigm, postural control, human movement, and aging. She completed the Master's degree in Physiotherapy - Specialization of Human Movement in 2017 from the Coimbra Health School – Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, and a Degree in Physiotherapy in 2007 from the Dr. Lopes Dias Health School – Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. She has more than 15 years of clinical practice as physiotherapist and was supervisor of curricular internships on the Physiotherapy graduation. She also supervises Physiotherapy graduation and Master thesis. Her doctoral thesis was funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), having obtained a doctoral scholarship. She is a reviewer in several Journals. She was a research fellow in the project -Comprehensive Geriatric Approach to promote an active and healthy aging - implementation of an integrated and multidisciplinary intervention program – to promote active and healthy aging and implement an integrated and multidisciplinary intervention program (2018/2019, CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-023369). She has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and participated in scientific events where she disseminated her work.