Principal researcher: 2014-2017: Projeto Reincidências -Recidivism evaluation and prevention of juvenile delinquency​. Direção GRSP funding. 126.000€.

Principal researcher: 2014-2015: Study Of The Psychosocial Needs And Social Responses In Patients Infected By HIV /AIDS In The North Of Portugal. Administração Regional De Saúde funding 32.850.00€.

Co- Princ​ipal researcher: 2013: Assessment Study Of Criminal Procedure Of The Crime Of Trafficking Of Human Beings And Of The National Plan Against Trafficking Of Human Beings (2011-2013). 48.013,32€. Comissão Para A Igualdade De Género (2013).

Team member: 2012-2016: SPIN (Scleroderma Patient Centered Intervention Network) Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry - Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada. Funded Canadian Institutes Of Health Research (CIHR), $1.5 Million Member Of The International Research Team. Coordination: Professor Brett Thombs (2012-2017).

Team member: 2011-2013: Victims, Trauma And Institutional Processes: Beyond The Victims' Ethics. (PTDC/CS-SOC/111366/2009 - FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-014471). Member Of The Research Team (25%). Coordination: Professor José Manuel Mendes. Centro De Estudos Sociais Da Universidade De Coimbra. FCT Funding, 133.593€

Team member: 2011-2013: Multiple Victimization of Poor Women: Intersection Of Meanings and Pathways to Change, (PTDC/PSI-APL/113885/2009). Member of the Research Team (15%) Coordination: Professor Marlene Matos, FCT Funding, 70.048€ (2011-2014).

Team member: 2002-2005. Child abuse and neglect, evaluation of risk and protective factors, and developmental impact (PRAXIS/C/PSI/14276/1998). Coordination: Professor Barbara Figueiredo. FCT funding, 50 000 €

Principal researcher: 2002-2005: Predictors of PTSD, physical and psychological health problems, family, job and social adjustment in combat veterans of the Portuguese colonial war. (POCTI/ESP/39515/2000). FCT funding, 50 000 €