António Pedro Costa is a principal researcher at the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF), Department of Education and Psychology of the University of Aveiro (Portugal). He is a co-author of supporting qualitative analysis webQDA (www.webqda.net). In this area, he has published, in co-authorship, several papers in national and international congresses and journals and book chapters. Currently teaches curricular units of research methodologies. He is the Coordinator of the Ibero-American Congress on Qualitative Research (www.ciaiq.org) and the World Conference on Qualitative Research (www.wcqr.info). Organize several special issues and books on Qualitative Research. He is the main editor of the journal New Trends in Qualitative Research (NTQR). He is a principal researcher at the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF), Department of Education and Psychology of the University of Aveiro, and a collaborator at the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab (LIACC), Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. His areas of interest include Qualitative Research and Mixed Methods, emphasizing the study of methods, data collection techniques, and analysis for implementation in the webQDA software. In 2023, he was distinguished with an honorable mention in Arts and Humanities in the “UA Researcher Award” category. In addition, he has carried out studies in this field on data representation and visualization, ethics, decision-making, and customer/user satisfaction, among others. Coordinated several projects with public and private funding worth more than 3 million euros.