Valeria Carola received her Ph.D. degree in Dynamic and Clinical Psychology from Sapienza University of Rome. She has 56 publications with 1676 citations and an h-index of 18 (Scopus, 23 November 2023). Her research activity is mainly focused on the investigation of the factors that underlie the development of psychiatric pathologies, with a specific and strong interest in the identification of neurobiological alterations caused by exposure to traumatic events in childhood/adolescence and associated with the increased susceptibility to the development of these diseases.