Teresa Summavielle obtained a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 2003 at the University of Porto and a degree in biochemistry in 1992. She is a principal investigator at i3S at the University of Porto, where she heads the Addiction Biology Group. She is also an invited professor at the Allied Health School of Porto. Presently, her lab aims at dissecting the crosstalk between neurons and glial cells, to clarify the neuroinflammatory processes that underlies addiction, and uncover new therapeutic targets. Her specific scientific areas of interest are as follows: neurobiology of addiction, neuroinflammation in addiction and other neurodegenerative disorders; drug discovery; mechanisms of neuronal morphology; and mechanisms of glial–neuronal communication. She is a member of the Boards of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences and NetWork Glia. Her publications include articles in Nat Comm, Neuropsychopharmacol, Brain, Sci Sig, Cell Rep, Neurosc Biobehav Rev, J Neurosci, Addict Biol, and Cell Death Dis.