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.    

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).

Marta Martins is a researcher at Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte) since 2019. Her research focuses on the psychology and neurobiology of music, reading, and auditory-motor processes. She addresses these topics by combining experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience methods in individuals of all ages, with particular interest in children and specialised populations (e.g., musicians). Before joining CIS-Iscte, Marta Martins completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at University of Porto (2019), where she developed her thesis on behaviour and brain plasticity in reading and music. She was an FCT doctoral student and developed her work in collaboration with the Structural Brain Mapping Group at the University of Jena (Germany). During her PhD she did an internship at Gaab Lab, Harvard University (Boston Children's Hospital, USA), under a Fulbright grant. She has a degree in Biology from the University of Porto (2007) and completed her Master's in Education Administration and Management at Universidade Portucalense (2012). She has the 8th degree in Treble/Descant Recorder and for eight years she taught Music Education in Primary Education. At Iscte, she teaches Psychophysiology of Emotion, Psychophysiology and Genetics, and Biological Basis of Emotions.

Patrícia Ávila (patricia-avila@iscte.pt). PhD and Master Degree in Sociology. Associate Professor at Iscte at the Department of Social Research Methods of the School of Sociology and Public Policies. Integrated Researcher at CIES-Iscte. Director of the Doctoral Programme in Sociology (CIES e Iscte). Coordinator of the Research Group 'Knowledge Society, Competencies and Communication', at CIES-Iscte. She has participated in several research projects on different themes, with particular emphasis on literacy and reading, competencies, adult education, science and society, and social research methods She is the author of several articles and books.  

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.