Leonor Pina de Freitas holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Criminology from Lusíada University of Porto. In 2022, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, securing funding for her doctoral research from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in 2023.While her interests span across various areas of Criminology, both her master's research and her current doctoral work are focused on Biosocial Criminology. She aims to deepen her understanding of the interactions between social, biological, and environmental factors. Currently, her primary areas of interest lie in the biosocial foundations of reactive and proactive aggression.In 2022, she made her debut at the EUROCRIM 2022 conference in Málaga, presenting her master's research through a poster presentation. In January 2023, she joined the Center for Legal and Environmental Studies at Lusíada University as a guest researcher.In November 2023, she will attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in Philadelphia to deliver an oral presentation on her master's work and the results she has obtained.