Ana Daniela Costa has a Master’s degree in psychology from the University of Minho and the University of Lille (double degree; PPNSA – European Master in neurocognitive processes and affective sciences). After the completion of the degree, she dedicated herself to research, having won a research grant from the Psychology Research Centre (CIPsi) during the 2020 Summer with Science by FCT and a one-year research fellowship at the Psychological Neuroscience Laboratory of the same R&D unit. During that period, she was enrolled in several courses to improve her training in both research and applied clinical psychology due to her passion for translational research. In 2021, she started to collaborate with the research team “Stress and Compulsivity: from Brain to Mental Health” at the School of Medicine (ICVS), where she has been receiving training in neuroimaging acquisition with magnetic resonance imaging. Since 2023, she has been certified as a psychologist by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists. Currently, she is doing her PhD in Health Sciences with an FCT grant, dedicating herself to uncover biomarkers of treatment response in drug-naive OCD patiens using a multimodal approach.