Daniel Silva is a PhD fellow in Work Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto and a member of the Center for Psychology at University of Porto. He has been awarded a PhD Scholarship by the FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Grant SFRH/BD/139135/2018, PhD thesis “Automation, territory and social transformation: the contribution of human activity to the sustainability of future work”). His work investigates the status and role of human activity within new automated work systems, with special attention to emerging modes of human–machine interaction and the factors susceptible to conditioning the future sustainability of work. He is a member of the Direction of Laboreal, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes papers focusing on real work activity.