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.  

PhD in Sociology, in Theory and Method. Full Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Director of School of Sociology and Public Policies. Director of the Postgraduate in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. Expert in methodological issues and quantitative data analysis. Senior researcher at the Center for the Research and Study of Sociology (CIES-ISCTE-IUL). Area of research is focused inside the quantitative and multivariate methods for categorical and quantitative variables, mainly methods of interdependence and dependence; multilevel models; longitudinal models; measurement models, mediation and moderation models; estimation with bootstrapping. She teaches several courses of multivariate statistics and advanced data analyses on Master and PhD Programs. She has coordinated research projects and she has participated in several research national and international projects, developing her skills of advanced data analysis with quantitative methods. She has published several books and several articles in Portugal and abroad.

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 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. 

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.