Alexandra Ferreira-Valente is interested in the positive orientation of health psychology, pain assessment and management, effects and mechanisms of psychological pain interventions and cross-cultural mixed-method research. She is particularly focused on understanding how the association between the meaning attributed to pain, beliefs and coping responses and psychological and physical adjustment do chronic pain are mediated and moderated by culture in people with chronic pain from different countries and cultural backgrounds. She is also dedicated to the study of the mechanisms explaining the effects of self-management strategies and psychological and spiritual interventions on the adjustment to life in healthy and not healthy people. In her research work, she combines cognitive-behavioral and existentialistic approaches with the overarching and long-term aim of helping people better manage different stressors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, chronic pain, and their effects on people’s lives.

Carla Moleiro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at ISCTE - IUL. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA in 2003. Initially, she specialized in Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Lisbon and as a psychotherapist at the Portuguese Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. He has developed clinical and research work on complex disorders and dual diagnoses, personality disorders, and presently with immigrant, refugee, ethnic and sexual minority (LGBTI+) clients. She is currently a researcher at the Center for Research and Social Intervention (CIS), working on mental health and diversity, as well as clinical skills for individual and cultural diversity. Her work also includes issues of community psychology, ethics, intervention with at risk populations and child protection. 

Cecília Aguiar is an associate professor at ISCTE-IUL and a senior researcher at CIS-IUL. With background in developmental and educational psychology, she has both conducted and participated in research on ECEC quality and teacher practices in ECEC, focusing on children’s social outcomes (i.e., peer social interactions, networks, and relationships) and, especially, on the social participation of children with disabilities. Other research areas include adult-child interactions, early childhood special education, and early childhood intervention. Aguiar served as an Associate Editor of the Early Childhood Research Quarterly between 2016 and 2019. She has been awarded several grants, all of which secured through competitive calls promoted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, including a doctoral fellowship, two post-doctoral fellowships, and two Scientific Career Development Fellowships awarded to her as the principal investigator of two projects: “Enhancing peer relationships: Preschool teachers' ideas and practices” and “Enhancing social participation of preschoolers with disabilities”. Further, she coordinated the dissemination workpackage in the FP7 CARE Project and the workpackage on curriculum, pedagogy, and social climate in the H2020 ISOTIS Project. Aguiar was also the national coordinator for Erasmus+ Projects KIT@ and BECERID. She is the coordinator the team of PrimeirosAnos.pt, a research-based blog on inclusiveness in early childhood education. Between 2019 and 2022, she coordinated the Erasmus+ project PARTICIPA - Professional Development Tools Supporting Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Erasmus+ project KidLe: Developing an intercultural game as a pedagogic tool for the inclusion of pupils with migrant bacKground in new Learning environments.

I am a Cross-cultural Psychologist with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (awarded in 2011). I joined the research centre Cis_ISCTE at the end of 2011 as a Marie Curie Research Fellow after a 1-year postdoc at the University of Kent, UK. I am an Assistant Professor at ISCTE since 2019.   I am very interested in the relation between the individual and the larger society and how characteristics of the social, cultural and physical environment are related to individuals´ well-being, moral beliefs and intergroup relations. As such, my work usually integrates theories and insights from different disciplines, such as Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Sciences (apart from Psychology).  My current research projects focus on age discrimination towards younger workers in different cultures as well as the issue of subtle discrimination (also referred to as microaggression) towards ethnic minorities in different societies.    I am teaching courses at Bachelor and Master level on research methods, (cross-)cultural psychology, and intercultural relations. From 2016 to 2021, I also coordinated the funded Erasmus Mundus programme “European Master in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society” (Global-MINDS) which is a joint master programme delivered by an international consortium of partner universities. Global-MINDS is currently coordinated by the University of Limerick and includes ISCTE-IUL, the University of Oslo and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities as full partners.    I welcome any expressions of interest for Master thesis or PhD supervision on morality, cross-cultural comparisons, youngism and microaggressions (from an enactor and/or victim perspective).  

César Lima is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Department of Psychology at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. His research focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of music, voice and emotion (MUVE Lab). He addresses these topics by combining experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience approaches, in healthy individuals of all ages, in specialised populations (e.g., musicians), and in clinical populations (e.g., with neurological disorders). He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Emotion Review, Cerebral Cortex, Brain, Current Biology, Trends in Neurosciences, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and Annual Review of Psychology. César Lima is on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (category Neuroscience) and Royal Society Open Science (category Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience). He has been invited to review papers for journals such as Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist, or Nature Human Behavior, and grant applications for the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society, Czech Science Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Dutch Research Council.   Before joining Iscte, César Lima completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Porto (2011), was a Research Associate at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience - University College London (2012-2016), and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Porto (2016-2017). His work as principal investigator has been funded by the British Academy and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. At Iscte, he teaches cognitive psychology and neuroscience courses. He is also the director of the MSc in Emotion Sciences.    

Diniz Lopes initiated his academic activities in 1997, being a Junior Researcher at Instituo de Ciências Socias, Universidade de Lisboa until 2000. At the same time, in 1998, he was hired by ISCTE-IUL where he developed his teaching and research activities. In 2007, he got his PhD in Social Psychology from the Departamento de Psicologia Social e das Organizações, Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, ISCTE-IUL, Lisboa. He is presently, Associate Professor with Habilitation and Head of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Between 2010 and 2013 he was a post-doc fellow in the Universities Paris Ouest, Paris Descartes, Universidade do Porto. His present research interests focus on the analysis of interpersonal relationships, namely commitment, infidelity, derogation of alternatives, stay-leave behaviors and pornography use within romantic relationships; the relationships between humans and companion animals; as well as the application of statistical models to data analysis in Psychology. His works are published in different national and international scientific journals, such as Animals, Behavior Research Methods, PlosOne, The Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Personal Relationships, among others

I have a Degree in Psychology from the University of Lisbon in 1990, and since 1993 I have developed my academic career at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Master in Management and Human Resource Policy, 1995;  PhD in Social Psychology in 2001, Habilitation in 2010) and my research activities at the ISCTE-IUL Center for Research and Social Intervention. My research focuses mainly on the factors and mechanisms that explain the legitimacy of injustice and victimization, including the phenomenon of "blaming the victim". This research is theoretically framed by the Belief in a Just World Theory, whose development and consolidation I have contributed to, especially in what refers to the legitimation of the injustices that happen to the members of our group. I have also developed research on the predictive value of the fundamental need to perceive the world as just to various indicators of well-being. My research has been published in international and national journals,  and has also been done in collaboration with master and doctoral students under my supervision.    

  Joana Alexandre holds a 5-year degree in clinical psychology and advanced specialization in psychotherapy accredited by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists (OPP), along with EMDR-N1 certification. Her academic journey includes a master's and PhD in social psychology from ISCTE, supplemented by an internship in Adelaide, Australia. During the last 15 years she has been monitoring and doing impact evaluations in different funded social projects – at a local level, with municipalities (e.g., C4i: Communication for Integration) and at a national level (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion; By your side) - planning, collecting and analysing data, and writting reports of results & recommendations. Joana Alexandre was also Quality Monitor of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for an international study from OECD on socioemotional competences (2018). She has been coordinating (project management) at a national level Erasmus+ projects or integrating other Erasmus+ projects on inclusion and education (e.g., GRIT, Yard4all; KidLe). She coordinated the developed of a set of materials for child friendly justice in another funded project (Projeto 12 - Jus). She was technical and scientific consultant for Gulbenkian Foundation (Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies from 2019-2022) and more recently she is consultant for ACRIDES Foundation (Cabo-Verde), focusing on children’s rights, child friendly justice, and the prevention of sexual abuse, and for the Council of Europe, in a project on child-friendly justice. Joana has also been involved in the ISCWeB project focusing on international perspectives on child subjective well-being, a project supported by experts from OCED, UNICEF and World Vision. During the last years, she has been involved in the development of materials for the promotion of children’s rights (e.g., Direitos em Jogo) and for the primary prevention of child sexual abuse (e.g., Picos e Avelã à Descoberta da Floresta do Tesouro; Búzio e Coral), and has been providing training in those topics for social workers, teachers/educators and magistrates. She was part of the director committee of the Child Safeguarging in Sport (Portugal) and provided training for different sports directors on sexual violence in sports. She was director of the Master in Community and Child Protection at Iscte (2018-2019). Recently (May, 2023) she became member of Grupo VITA – Group for supporting victims of sexual violence in the context of the Catholic Church in Portugal.  

Joana Baptista is an assistant professor at the Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. Her work focuses on the early relational determinants of child development, most notably the quality of caregiver-child interactions. Over the past years, she has devoted herself to the question of early adverse experiences and their effects, most notably the effect of deprived parental care on children's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. Among others, she is the PI of the project "All4Children - The Integrated Model of Family Foster Care to promote high-quality child welfare practices in Portugal", funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.03592.PTDC). She is a national delegate COST action Euro-CAN - Multi-Response Sectorals to Child Abuse and Neglect in Europe: Incidence and Trends (CA19106). Joana Baptista also researches how mother/father-child quality of interaction influences infants' and preschoolers' executive functioning in both typically developing and in children born preterm. She has published in several leading journals.

Lígia Amancio graduated in Psychology and Educational Studies at the University of Paris VIII and started teaching at ISCTE in 1978-79 where she concluded her PhD in Sociology in 1989 and presented her "habilitation" in 1999. She is full professor of social psychology since 2002. Following her PhD which marked the beginning of gender studies in Portugal she dedicated her research career to understanding the social construction of gender categories and its impact on discrimination, in particular discrimination of women in public and highly qualified professions such as politics, sciences and medicine. She supervised / co-supervised (2) 9 PhDs at ISCTE and other national institutions and two post doctoral researchers. She was visiting professor and gave seminars in doctoral programmes at the Universities of Brandeis (USA) Helsinky (FN), Geneva (SW), School of Social Sciences in Paris (FR) and Bahia (BR). Among other research projects she coordinated the Portuguese team of the European funded project SAGE (Systemic Action for Gender Equality) from 2016 through 2019 which originated the book published in 2020 by Taylor and Francis, The Gender-Sensitive University. A Contradiction in terms? (open access). At ISCTE she occupied management positions as director of the research center of sociology (CIES) in 1989-1993 and director of the research center of psychology (2002-216), as vice-president of the scientific council (2002-2004), and as head of the social and organisational psychology section and later president of this department. In public administration she was president of the Commission for Equality and Women's Rights of the Portuguese government (1996-1998), national delegate in the management committee for the support of social sciences of the EU and member of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) (2001-2004), vice president of the board of the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (2006-2012), member of the Ethics Committee for Life Sciences (2009-2014) and member of the Board of Trustees of the Agency for the Evaluation in Higher Education (A3ES). She retired in 2018 and received the title of emeritus professor of ISCTE-IUL in 2019. In the same year João Manuel Oliveira and Conceição Nogueira edited the book Lígia Amâncio: o género como ação sobre o mundo to celebrate her career, available in open access. In July 2021 she was elected member of the Board of the European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS) in representation of AMONET, the Portuguese Association of Women Scientists, of which she was a founding member in 2004. In 2023 she received a career award from the the Alumni Club of ISCTE.

Lígia Monteiro has a Ph.D. from the UNL/ISPA-IU. Presently is an assistant Professor at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, and a researcher at CIS-IUL - CED (Community, Education and Development) research group. She has a background on educational and developmental Psychology (ISPA-IU/UNL) and has participated in several research projects  studying the impact of parenting (mother and father) and family dynamics on children’s socio-emotional development, during the first years of live.  She has her work published in several peer-review journals, and book chapters/books. 

MARGARIDA VAZ GARRIDO (Ph.D. in Psychology, 2007), is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where she works since 1998. Her research examines human cognition from a socially situated perspective. She has applied this approach primarily to the study of collaborative memory, false memories and second language processing. In parallel, she has explored the applications of her research to the study of vulnerable and clinical populations (e.g., cognitive processing in abusive parenting, memory processes in ASD and aging, interoception in chronic pain) and to consumer psychology and eating behavior (e.g., cross-modality in taste perception). She has been involved in 39 funded research projects (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, ‘la Caixa’ Foundation) and obtained individual grants (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; and two Marie Curie fellowships) that allowed her to work during her Ph.D. at the University of California - Santa Barbara and at Utrecht University (2010/2014). Her research has been published as books, book chapters, and in over 100 scientific journals (e.g., Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive Science, Behavior Research Methods; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Journal of Memory and Language). Her work, and that of her team, has been acknowledged by the scientific community with several distinctions and awards. She taught 26 courses in psychology and research methods and supervised the work of more than 50 master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral students. She has held academic and scientific management positions as the Director of the Department of Psychology, the Master of Social and Organizational Psychology, and the Ph.D. Program in Psychology. She was also Vice-Director of Research Center Cis-Iscte. She is on the editorial boards of several journals and scientific evaluation panels and served as president of the Portuguese Psychological Association.

Born in Ovar in 1959, she graduated in Psychology at the University of Lisbon. Since 1982 she has developed her academic career at Iscte, where she is Full Professor of Social Psychology, Co-coordinator of SocioDigitalLab for Public Policy. She develops a wide activity in teaching and scientific orientation.  Her research activity focuses on the application of Social Psychology to health and environmental issues, and is reflected in numerous scientific publications. She is the author of the book "We and others: The power of social ties" published by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. She was president of the Portuguese Psychological Association. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Bath and a Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Marília Prada completed her PhD in Social Psychology at ISCTE-IUL in 2010. Since then she has been teaching diverse courses to undergraduate and masters’ students with an emphasis on research methods and academic skills. She has published national and international scientific and pedagogic papers and has also co-edited a handbook on academic skills. Between 2015-2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow on a project funded by the European Commission (“Examining the Boundaries of Embodiment” coordinated by Margarida Vaz Garrido). Currently, she coordinates an FCT project - Individual and contextual determinants of sugar perception and consumption - hosted by the Center for Research and Social Intervention (CIS-IUL). Her research interests include: (a) the development and validation of instruments; (b) processing of affective information; (c) food perception and eating behavior.

Patrícia Arriaga holds a Ph.D. in Social and Organizational Psychology from ISCTE (Pre-Bologna, 2006), a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology from ISPA (Pre-Bolonha, 2 years, 2000), and is graduated in Psychology (5 years, 1996, Area of Clinical Psychology) by ISPA. She is certified by the Portuguese Professional Association of Psychologists (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portuguesa, OPP) in the areas of "Clinical and Health Psychology", "Work, Social and Organizational Psychology" and "Neuropsychology". Arriaga began teaching in higher education in 1996. She was a Fellow of the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT) for Post-Doctoral Studies (2008-2009), conducting her project at both ISCTE and Granada University. Subsequently, she worked as a Researcher (2009-2012) at CIS under the Science 2008 Program, funded by the FCT.  Currently, she holds the position of an Associate Professor with Habilitation at ISCTE, in addition to her role as a Senior Researcher at CIS.  Research Main interests:  Her research focuses on exploring socio-affective processes through a multi-method approach, analyzing subjective, behavioral, and physiological responses in human social interactions. She investigates the impact of various social interventions and the use of tools (e.g., multimedia applications, board games, videos, media campaigns, social robots) designed to enhance well-being and prosocial behaviors in social, health, and educational contexts.  Her projects typically involve multidisciplinary teams, predominantly from computer science. More recently, she has contributed to meta-science, aiming to enhance scientific practices, by collaborating with international research teams to ensure more robust, transparent, and reproducible research. Arriaga has earned several competitive research projects funded externally (e.g. FCT, Bial Foundation, Erasmus+, Compete 2020) and has published in book chapters, conference proceedings, and refereed scientific journals. These range from specialized and thematic (e.g., Emotion, Psychology of Violence, Aggressive Behavior, Psychology of Music, Mindfulness, Journal of Creative Behavior, Cortex, Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology) to general (e.g., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Health Psychology) and multidisciplinary journals (e.g. Health Communication; Health Education Research, Computers in Human Behavior; SoftwareX, HardwareX, Nature Human Behaviour). She has been invited to evaluate scientific articles and research project applications at both national and international levels, including for governmental agencies such as the US National Science Foundation, the Dutch Research Council (Netherlands), the Shota Rustaveli Georgian National Science Foundation (Georgia), and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Paula Castro is Full Professor of Psychology at ISCTE-IUL & a researcher at CIS-iscte. She holds a PhD in social and environmental psychology (ISCTE, 2000), and a degree in psychology (Univ-Lisboa,1987). Her research looks at the processes of meaning-making and communication involved in the reception of new laws and public policies - mainly environmental ones - developing a social psychology of legal innovation. She has mainly investigated how new laws and regulations governing climate action, biodiversity conservation, public participation or urban regeneration are received by the public (e.g., contested, accepted, negotiated) and the implications of this reception for social change. The studies, both quantitative and qualitative, often focus on (the asymmetric) relations between public and scientific experts/decision makers. Other areas of interest are people-place relations, local knowledge, social memory and the history of social psychological theories.  She coordinated and participated in several financed projects (FCT, EU) and supervised various PhD and Pos-Doc projects, with the resulting work published in international journals of high impact in the areas of social, political, environmental and community psychology, as well as environmental policy. She was Director of the Psychology Department (2008–2010), Director of the PhD program in Psychology (2010–2013), Director of the Masters in Studies of Environment and Sustainability (2015-19), Member of ISCTE's SC (2010-2014), and CIS-iscte SC (2016-19) and Director of CIS-iscte (2019-2021).

Ricardo Borges Rodrigues is Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and integrated researcher at CIS-IUL. With a PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology, he conducts research and intervention in the area of ​​intergroup relations in childhood and adolescence, namely on processes of racial, ethnic, and gender based inclusion and exclusion in educational contexts. Director of the Master in Psychology of Intercultural Relations and academic vice coordinator at Iscte of the Erasmus Mundus Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society (Global-Minds). At CIS-IUL, he coordinates the project TEIP4 (consultancy to 15 school districts). Has served in expert committees, such as the Commission for Monitoring and Supervision of Educational Centers (2016-2020) and the advisory group for the Curricular Autonomy and Flexibility Project (DGE, 2017).

My interests are on how basic cognitive processes - attention, perception, memory - allow forming impressions and making inferences about others, recognizing emotions, and interacting with the non-social world (e.g. brands). Interests me also how language shapes the way we know the world. Recently I study these issues in clinical populations and also use brain activation measures to answer them.

Sibila Marques has a degree in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Social Psychology from ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is a researcher at the Center for Research and Social Intervention and teaches as an Assistant Professor in MSc courses at ISCTE-IUL. She is currently the Director of the Master in Social Psychology of Health. Her work has focused on the application of Social and Community Psychology to the understanding of themes with a relevant social impact, especially in the area of health and well-being of communities and individuals. In this sense she has developed work in two priority areas: Social Psychology of Aging and Social Psychology of the Environment. In this field she has presented her work in national and international congresses and public events, and has publications in journals with high impact in the scientific community. She has also developed activities in European and national projects in this field. She is currently part of the Eurage group (www.eurage.com) and has taken on the scientific coordination at ISCTE-IUL of the European projects SIforAGE (FP7) and INHERIT (H2020). She is also the author of the essay "Discrimination of the elderly" published by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation in 2011. She is also a frequent appearance in the media to discuss topics related with her subjects of research. 

M.S. (2003) and a PhD (2008) in Social Psychology of Health (ISCTE-IUL). Associate Professor with Habilitation (Agregação) in Psychology  at the Department of Psychology of Iscte, where she started teaching in 1999. She is currently co-coordinator the multidisciplinary research group "Societal Health" of the SocioDigitalLab for Public Policies. She is the former Director of the Psychology Department, and was Vice-Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Director of the Master in Social Psychology of Health, Vice-Director of the Centre for Social Research and Intervention (CIS-IUL) and Coordinator of the Research Group Health for All (H4A). Fascinated by the (social) mind-body relations, she has dedicated much attention to such issues in her teaching and research. Her main research interests have generally revolved around social disparities in health and the role of psychosocial influences on chronic illness adaptation processes. She has mainly explored these issues in relation to a particular health-related topic-(chronic) pain. More specifically, her current main lines of research aim to: (1) understand the psychosocial processes accounting for health-care professionals (gender and social status) biases in the assessment and treatment of a patients pain; (2) investigate the role of interpersonal dynamics in pain experiences, namely, pain-related social support interactions for the promotion of functional autonomy among (older) adults with (chronic) pain. In her research she uses a wide range of quantitative (e.g., experimental), qualitative (e.g., grounded-theory) and knowledge synthesis methodologies (e.g., scoping and systematic reviews, meta-analysis). Currently, her research interests have been moving from the investigation of psychosocial processes underlying health and illness, to the development of novel psychosocial interventions to promote chronic illness adaptation and/or health care professionals' gender awareness. She has coordinated 11 funded projects (6 contracts and 5 grants) and collaborated as a researcher or invited scientific/research fellow in several other national (n=3), and international projects (n=8 of which 3 EU funded). She has over 80 scientific publications (books, book chapters, articles), of which > 45 papers in high impact journals (e.g., PAIN, Health Psychology) and has been an invited speaker at important international scientific meetings (e.g., World and European Pain Conferences). Several scientific awards have recognized her scientific contributions, namely, the Research Merit Award of the Portuguese Health Psychology Society (2008), Young Researcher Award of the Portuguese Psychological Association (2013), Best Paper Awards by the Portuguese Association for the Development of Pain Therapies (ASTOR) and the Grüenenthal PAIN Prize 2016. She has provided scientific assessment services to national (e.g., Portuguese National Funding Agency, Portuguese Associations for the Study of Pain) and international organizations (e.g., ERA-NET, Dutch Cancer Society, European Pain Federation). She is regularly involved in outreach activities, e.g., healthcare professionals' training, development of health-related guidelines, consultancy services to national (pain units, pharmaceutical industry, patient associations) and international organizations (e.g., Childhood Cancer International). She is currently a member of IASP Early Career Presidential Task Force (since 2021), of the Pain Psychology Working Group of the Portuguese Chapter of the European Federation of Pain (EFIC; since 2020) and has been the co-Chair of the Psychology Track of the 2nd EFIC Virtual Pain Education Summit (2021).

Ângela Romão is currently a student in the PhD Program in Psychology at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She has a BA in Psychology and a Master’s in Social Psychology of Health at the same institution. The various research projects in which she had the opportunity to participate as a Research Fellow in CIS-IUL, provided her with a diversity of experiences in the field of research, allowing her to have contact with researchers from nationally and internationally, empowering their knowledge in multiple domains. Her PhD project aims to examine the social perceptions towards informal caregivers, with a special focus on analyzing whether the dehumanization of informal caregivers and justice perceptions are processes that can help to explain the social devaluation of this group.

My work is at the interface of social, environmental and community psychology, focusing on how individuals and communities receive and enable laws for sustainability, namely those regulating protected areas and biodiversity conservation. I am interested in citizens’ involvement in environmental issues, and representations and identities linked to social and environmental risks. 

Catarina Possidónio holds a PhD in Social Psychology, from Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. With the general aim of building knowledge on how to trigger transitions to healthier, more sustainable, ethical, plant-based diets, she is interested in studying psychological factors impacting on attitudes towards animals, their consumption, and plant-based alternatives, exploring what may shape consumer willingness and intention to make such transitions. Currently, she is also the Scientific Editor at PSICOLOGIA, the scientific journal of the Portuguese Psychology Association (APP).

PhD in Psychology (2020, Iscte-IUL) and MSc in Community Psychology and Child Protection (2010, Iscte-IUL). Currently, I am a researcher at the Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS/Iscte), working on the project "All4Children - The Integrated Family Fostering Model (MIAF) to promote the quality of fostering and protection practices in Portugal" (funded by FCT). Also, I am teaching in the Master of Forensic Psychology at the Lusófona University of Lisbon (since 2020). My research interests have focused on maladaptive parenting, namely neglect, and the explanatory mechanisms of emotional and cognitive deprivation in parent-child interactions, particularly in contexts of poverty. I have also professional experience in intervention with children, young people, and families in the child protection system.

Cristina Camilo is an Invited Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL, Executive Manager of Iscte_Saúde and Invited Researcher at CIS-IUL. She holds a PhD in Psychology, and develops research in the area of the impact of social relationships on health and well-being, namely on the processes that mediate this association.  She also studies the interpersonal processes of regulation of negative emotions in situations of illness. She is coordinator of the Global Diagnostic Study, developed in collaboration with Childhood Cancer International (CCI) and co-coordinator of the program developed with SICAD in the context of the program "Eu e os Outros".  

David Guedes is a psychology researcher at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He completed his Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Lisbon (2015) and his PhD in Psychology at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2023). His past research experiences include collaborations in projects dedicated to the topics of food preference and choice and the promotion of healthier and more sustainable eating practices (2018-2020). His main research interests include the determinants of healthy and sustainable food choices and dietary practices, namely in what concerns the role of sensory and affective variables.  

Elzbieta Malgorzata Bobrowicz Campos graduated in Psychology from University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland, in 2002 and completed a PhD degree in Psychology, Specialty in Psychological Assessment from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra in 2015. In 2016, she received the title of Specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology, and the title of Advanced Specialist in Neuropsychology by Portuguese Psychologists Order. Presently, she holds a position of Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention at the Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte-IUL), integrating and coordinating the research group Health for All (H4A). She is also a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the School of Social and Human Sciences at Iscte-IUL. Her research focuses on successful aging, digital transformation and equitable digital health, with the main objective of analyzing challenges that the digital transformation represents for the older adults through the mapping of individual and socially shared understandings meanings and values related to digital transition. Currently, Elzbieta Bobrowicz-Campos coordinates two projects. The first one, entitled Time-To-Engage, aims to: (i) explore the individual and contextual factors that interfere with citizens' intention to use digital technologies in health at an advanced age; and (ii) understand how these factors are shaped by levels of digital skills and engagement, as well as by the availability, accessibility and affordability of digital equipment and connection. The project is funded within the scope of the Social Research Programme by the La Caixa Foundation in collaboration with the Portuguese Foundation for Sciences and Technology. She also coordinates, together with Filipa Ventura, the non-funded project Aequitas@DigiHeatlh: Co-design for equitable digital health, which aims to evaluate the adequacy of a theoretical model of equitable digital health from the perspective of users and managers of health services, as well as professionals of health. The project is developed in partnership with the Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing of the Nursing School of Coimbra. Since obtaining her PhD degree, Elzbieta has collaborated with the research group of Policies and Educational Organizations and Educational Dynamics at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra, and with the research group Well-being, Health and Illness at the Health Sciences Research Unit - Nursing at the Higher Nursing School of Coimbra. She is also a part of the Portuguese team of the Red Interuniversitaria Euroamericana de Investigación ALFAMED - Competencias Mediáticas de la Ciudadanía. Within the scope of these collaborations, she was involved in several national and international projects that aim to empower older adults for autonomy and self-care through evidence-based interventions, promoting gains in health and improving physical and cognitive functioning and quality of life. The international projects included: (i) a European project - Frailty management Optimisation though EIP AHA Commitments and Utilisation of Stakeholders Input (FOCUS), co-financed by the CHAFEA, under the power delegated by the European Commission, and (ii) Spanish and Portuguese project - Pilot project for the establishment of a predictive model as possible modulator of aging in health (ModulEn), so-financed by Fundacion General CSIC, Interreg España Portugal and CENIE. She was also involved in the project - Digital and media literacy competencies in Portugal (COMEDIG), co-financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, that aimed to assess the level of digital and media literacy competences in the school community, in order to identify training needs and, based on these, to develop digital educational resources and guidelines for training in this area. In her professional career, initiated in 2006, she integrated several research projects in the areas of (i) Medical Sciences with an emphasis on Health Sciences, and (ii) Social Sciences with an emphasis on Psychology. Her professional experience is related, in the most part, to the definition and implementation of strategies that promote successful aging, framed in the evidence-based health practice model, and developed in collaboration with academic, political, industrial and social agents.

Eunice Magalhães, PhD, is researcher at CIS-Iscte and assistant professor at the Master of Community Psychology, Protection of Child and Youth at Risk. From 2020-2022 she was deputy director of CIS. Her research interests include victimization during childhood and adulthood, its impact in victims' mental health as well as the protective factors in these abusive contexts. She is particularly interested in resilience after exposure to violence across life, and specifically with young people in residential care settings.  Also, she explores issues related to foster families, with a particular focus on why people become a foster parent. Currently, she is PI of a La Caixa Foundation funded project (Protecting the children’s right to live in a family: insights to recruit foster families in Portugal).   Her professional experience includes the child protection system for young people at risk, as case worker in a child protection agency.  

Marta Matos is a PhD in Psychology - Clinical and Health (2016) by Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is an Integrated Researcher at Cis_Iscte, Member of the Health For All Research Group (H4A) and Invited Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL.   She has been focusing on care provision to older populations since the start of her career as a psychologist (2007) in community contexts and during her Ms (2010) and PhD (2016) at Iscte, she focused on the role of social support of formal caregivers in chronic pain’ experiences of older adults.   Present research lines are dedicated to:   1. Understand the interpersonal dynamics of receiving social support for functional autonomy in older adults with chronic pain. 2. Investigate the experiences of providing care to older adults, in formal and informal caregivers, aiming to identify psychosocial protective/risk factors to caregiver and older adults’ quality of life.   Overall, her research is motivated by an interest in translating evidence-based knowledge into caregiving practices, with a solid theoretical framework. Her research work has been supported and recognized by institutions that focus on pain research, notably through a fellowship for advanced pain training (ASTOR 2014), a clinical pain research award (Grünenthal Foundation 2016) and best poster award by Angelini/ASTOR (ASTOR 2021).

Miriam Rosa is a researcher at CIS-IUL (Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention) and invited professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at ISCTE-IUL. She completed a PhD in 2012 by ISCTE-IUL with co-supervision by Kiel University (Germany) awarded with a grant by FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation). She has been a FCT postdoctoral fellow between 2013 and 2018 at CIS-IUL and Rotterdam School of Management (Rotterdam University, The Netherlands). She co-coordinated the research group GCIR in 2013-2014 and Psychange in 2014-2015. Miriam is specialized in research and data analysis' methods, and has been dedicated to scientific research in the area of intergroup relations, focusing on relations between groups of asymmetric status (majorities vs. minorities). She conducts this work in different contexts, such as organizations (e.g. diversity and inclusion at work, success of mergers/acquisitions); activism (e.g. environmental activists) or religious groups. More recently, she is interested in social and organizational challenges (e.g. skilling, age/gender inclusion) in high technological intensity sectors/industries (e.g.  aeronautics, space, defense, maritime)

At the broadest level, I am interested in how such grounding mechanisms as the body, action, modality-specific systems, and environments (physical and social) affect the processing of concepts. I have two lines of research within this broad research theme. The first one investigates the embodiment of cognition with a focus on language processing and the second line is concerned with the role that embodied cognitive processes play in social interactions (i.e., social cognition).

Raquel António has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (2020) and a Master's in Social and Organizational Psychology (2011) - Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. She is currently a Junior Researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS - Iscte). She is currently coordinating a project supported by La Caixa Foundation and participated in several others as a team member. She has participated in research projects since 2012 at the Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS - Iscte). She worked as a science manager and researcher at APPsyCI: ISPA - Instituto Universitário from 2021-2022.  Her research interests include bullying, homophobia, and intergroup relations. She is also interested in reactions to prejudice and discrimination. Her more recent work focuses on bystanders and their role in bias-based cyberbullying. She is a board member of No Bully Portugal Association.

Present: PhD programs & project I am currently a student of the PhD program in Psychology from Iscte-IUL and of the PhD program in Science of Psychology and Education from Université Libre de Bruxelles (joint agreement). My project's (supervision: Rita Jerónimo, Cis-IUL, Iscte-IUL and Régine Kolinsky, Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences (CRCN), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) main aim is to investigate the learning of science contents through different text types (narrative and expository) and the involvement of different factors and processes in this learning. Education, research & teaching I graduated in Psychology at Iscte-IUL and then completed the Master in Cognitive Science at the University of Lisbon, with a project about cognitive control processes in sentence processing using behavioural and electrophysiological measures. Project: Monitoring in sentence processing: behavioral and electrophysiological evidenceSupervision: Ana Luísa Raposo (Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa) and Rita Jerónimo (Cis-IUL, Iscte-IUL)Area: cognitive science After the Master, I completed an Erasmus+ research internship at the Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (supervision: Régine Kolinsky). Project: The costs and benefits of face expertise in light of Behavioural and EEG measuresCoordination: Régine Kolinsky (CRCN, ULB) and Adéläide de Heering (CRCN, ULB)Area: cognitive neuroscience Other research projects I have been involved with: 2016-2022 Project: Social cognition in patients with Schizophrenia and Autism spectrum disorders: shared deficitsTeam: João Fernandes (FCM-UNL*, CHLO**), Bernardo Barahona-Corrêa (FCM-UNL, CHLO, CADIn*), Rita Jerónimo (Cis-IUL, Iscte-IUL) and Ricardo Lopes (CADIn, Cis-IUL, Iscte-IUL)Area: sociocognitive neuroscience 2013 - present Project: The cheese was green with… envy: an EEG study on how minimal descriptions impact information processing Team: Rita Jerónimo (Cis-IUL, Iscte-IUL), Sofia Frade (Cis-IUL, Iscte-IUL); Sonja Kotz (Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University)Area: cognitive neuroscience I have also been involved in teaching activities at Iscte-IUL, mainly at the undergraduate level. 2016 - present Perception, Attention and Memory- theoretical-practical lessons on research methodology for the study of cognitive processes and on techniques and experimental tasks for the study of attention.- collaboration in the development of a pedagogical methodology based on gamification principles. Neuropsychology- theoretical-practical lessons on the neural basis of attention and executive functions. 2017 - present Reasoning and Language- theoretical-practical lessons on the cognitive processes underlying text comprehension. Psychophysiology and Genetics- laboratory class on the fundamentals of electroencephalography, applicability in basic and applied research and hands-on demonstration of the technique. Other professional experiences Besides academic, research and formal teaching activities, I have also done more practical work in the non-formal learning domain. 2014-2017- Explainer at the Pavilion of Knowledge: I explained the scientific contents of the exhibits, did hands-on demonstrations, developed science-learning activities and gave training on topics from psychology and cognitive science. 2016-2018- Cognitive tutor at Hikari: I applied scientific knowledge about cognition and the brain in the development and implementation of learning strategies with students from various ages and school levels.     * Faculdade de Ciências Médicas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa ** Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental*** Centro de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Infantil