José Castro Silva, PhD in Education, is Assistant Professor at ISPA-Instituto Universitário. He lectures in Educational Sciences, Learning and Motivation, Information and Technology in Education, Well-being in Education Contexts and has experience with teacher training programs focused on teacher professional learning and development. His current research interests include topics such as well-being and adaptation in educational contexts, influence of individual and contextual factors on the teachers’ professional learning and development and virtual learning and teaching environments. He is a specialist in technologies and information systems and has extensive experience in the management of distance education platforms, as well as in teachers’ training in teaching and assessment in virtual environments. José Castro Silva is author of several papers published at national and international journals, and book chapters and he is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Educational Psychology.