Ana Cristina Paredes is a Psychologist with a MSc degree in Health Psychology (2012), and a PhD Student at ICVS since 2020. After some years of clinical practice, Ana Cristina has been working in ICVS since 2016. She is interested in studying the role of psychological factors in pain experience and, more recently, she underwent training in Quantitative Sensory Testing (Department of Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty of the Heidelberg University, Germany). In ICVS, she began her work in the project “PSY-HaEMOPEQ – Effectiveness of two psychological interventions for prevention and management of pain, emotional regulation and promotion of quality of life in people with Haemophilia: a randomized controlled trial and national survey”. Simultaneously, she collaborated in projects around the topic of post-surgical pain, which laid the ground for her PhD project “Pain chronification after total joint arthroplasty: psychological and psychophysical predictors”. At the moment, Ana Cristina is also working on the project “Pain Sensitivity and psychological profile of chronic low back pain patients: Implications for a personalized treatment approach”, for which she won a research grant from the Clinical Academic Center of Braga (2CA-Braga). Ana Cristina has published her research in international peer reviewed journals, being the first author of papers in high-ranking journals in the pain field.