PhD in Human Resources Management at ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. Her main research interests are well-being, daily micro-events at work, mindfulness, positive organizational behaviour and the intersection of pets with organizational life. She has published more than 40 papers in International Journals such as Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Happiness Studies, Social Indicators Research, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology or International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care. She has published diverse book chapters and presented studies at different International Conferences, such as: European Congress on Work and Organizational Psychology and; International Seminar on Positive Occupational Health Psychology, among others. Contact: ana_luisa_silva@iscte-iul.pt

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.

Rita Guerra has a PhD in Social Psychology (2007), and she is currently an Auxiliary Researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS_Iscte). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Delaware for two years, and later in 2010 she joined Cis_Iscte. She is interested in intergroup relations among ethnic majority and minority groups, common identity interventions to reduce prejudice and discrimination, acculturation dynamics,  on the dynamics of collective narcissism, extremism, and hostility, and more recently on hate speech. She coordinated projects supported by several competitive grants from the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) and the European Commission (European Fund for the Integration of non-EU immigrants, EIF, Citizens, Equality,  Rights and Values Programme, (CERV), and participated in several others as a team member. Her research has been published in respectable journals in her field (e.g., Psych. Science; Eur. J. of Soc. Psychology., Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, J. Personality and Social Psychology, J. of Applied Social Psychology, Eur. J. of Personality, Political Psychology, Journal of Social Issues) and chapters in edited peer-reviewed volumes (e.g., Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination), accumulating over 1000 citations. She actively integrates research into teaching activities, teaching in master programs in intercultural relations, social psychology, and emotional sciences, and supervising PhD and master students.  She is Associated Editor of Journal of Applied Social Psychology and served as a Guest Editor of a Special Issue, Unpacking the social psychology of populism, for the Journal of Theoretical and Social Psychology, as well as for a Special Section, Social Psychology as a social science, for the Portuguese Journal of Social Sciences. She served as the Vice Director of CIS_Iscte from 2016-2020 and is currently a co-coordinator of the Thematic Line Global Governance of the recently created SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy (Iscte).

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. 

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. 

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.

Cristiane Souza is PhD in Psychology (Iscte-IUL). She graduated in Psychology in 2008 and completed a transdisciplinary master's degree in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 2015. She has more than 10 years of professional experience (registration in Brazil, CRP-03/4782). Her experiences focus especially on teaching/management in higher education, scientific research, neuropsychological interventions and community health. She was also part of the Iscte-Health team, as Jr. Psychologist and supported management, training and development actitivies. Her doctoral research was developed in the interface between Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, and focused the interaction between declarative memory systems in older adults and in autistic individuals. Cristiane is a BEC (Behaviour, emotion and cognition) research group member (Cis-IUL) and have been collaborated in teaching and mentoring activities with DPSO, Iscte-IUL. From her scientific production, stands out her peer-reviewed (Q1 and Q2) publications on neurocognitive aspects in typical developed populations, in developmental disorders, and, more recently, in the context of aging. She also contributes as an expert reviewer in important journals, as PLOS one, Behavior Research Methods, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Cognitive Processing. Her current interests converge on issues related to cognitive preservation in human development and on well-being and life-quality in aging and in neurodivergent development.

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".  

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

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.

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).

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 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.

João Manuel de Oliveira researches on bodies and their performativity in the frame of neoliberal political economies on the broad field of Gender Studies, Critical Studies of Sexuality and Feminist Theory. João’s publications address intersectionality and hyphenation, homo/heteronormativity, de/subjugated knowledges and eccentric genealogies,anti-racist and anti-essentialist feminist theory, queer theory, trans* studies, contemporary arts and dance.   Habilitation in Psychology by ISCTE-IUL. Graduate, master and PhD on Social Psychology- ISCTE. Post-Doc at Universidade do Minho (2010-2012), Universidade do Porto (2013-2014), ISCTE-IUL (2015-2016) research fellow at Birkbeck Institute for Social Research U  (Reino Unido- 2010-2015) and Culture and Sexuality research group of Federal U. of Bahia (2016). Between 2017-2021 Visiting associate professor at Federal U. of Bahia. Marie Curie fellow at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris- 2003. Research professor at CIS_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.

  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.

PhD in Quantitative Methods, specialising in Statistics and Data Analysis (Iscte). Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods (DMPS, Iscte) and Deputy Director of DMPS. Researcher at CIES-Iscte and member of the Youth Employment Observatory (OEJ). Coordinator of the Specialisation Course in Visual Information Communication (since 2015). Researcher on the European projects InCities - Trailblazing Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Synclusive - System approach to close the employment gap and create a more inclusive labour market for vulnerable groups. National coordinator and member of the methods committee of the project World Elite Database (WED). She has developed and participated in various projects, studies, workshops and papers at national and international conferences. Research interests: sampling, robust statistics, data visualisation, employability, well-being and social inequalities.

Maria Helena Santos is currently an integrated member of the CIS-IUL, where she was a post-doctoral researcher between 2012 and 2018. She has a degree (2001), a master's degree (2004) and a PhD (2011) in Social and Organizational Psychology from ISCTE-IUL. During the first three years of her postdoctoral project, she worked at the Centre en Études Genre LIEGE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and at CIS-IUL. She has been coordinator of the Gender, Sexualities and Intersectionality Thematic Line between 2017 and 2019 and co-coordinator of the Psychange research group between 2018 and 2021. Maria Helena Santos' research interests have focused on gender studies and affirmative action, specifically in the markedly masculine (e.g. politics and medicine) and feminine (e.g. nursing and basic education) professional contexts in order to understand how gender influences the tokenism dynamics, i.e. the experiences s and reactions of women in " men's worlds " and men in " women's worlds ".

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.

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.

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)

With a background in Psychology and in Social Policy, Nadine Correia has a PhD in Psychology. In the past years, she integrated the Erasmus+ projects BECERID (development of PrimeirosAnos.pt, a resource targeting early childhood education professionals) and PARTICIPA (professional development tools supporting participation rights in early childhood education), and collaborated with the Tr@ck-IN project. Particularly interested in children's rights, specifically children's participation rights, early childhood education settings' quality, and children's sociocognitive development.

Raul M. S. Laureano holds a Ph.D in Management with specialization in Quantitative Methods for Management (2007), a Master's degree in Business Sciences (1995), and a Bachelor's degree in Organization and Business Management (1992), all awarded by Iscte, currently known as Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon). He is Associate Professor at the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Management of the Iscte Business School, where he has been teaching since 1992 in the field of Business and Data Analytics, including subjects such as Statistics and Data Analysis and Machine Learning. At this institution, he proposed the Applied Business Analytics and Analytics for Business postgraduate programs, both offered in partnership with Iscte-Executive Education, and the Master's program in Business Analytics, of which he is the director since its first edition. He is also a researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU-Iscte), in the Data Analytics group, and at the Research Center in Information Science, Technologies, and Architecture (ISTAR-Iscte), in the Information Systems group. Within his research interests, which include Health Analytics, Fraud Analytics, Public Administration, Tourism Analytics, and Applied Business Analytics, he has published over 90 scientific papers, including articles in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He is currently responsible for the research projects "HOPE - Healthcare: Optimize, Predict and Explain" and "DAFIM - Development of Fraud Pattern Detection Algorithms in Incentive Verification," both funded by Iscte. He was a member of the research team for the project "Artificial Intelligence in Incentive Management" (funded by IAPMEI and AICEP – 2020-2021 / 24 months) In terms of academic research, he has successfully supervised over 50 master theses and four doctoral theses. He is currently supervising four doctoral theses, all in the field of Data Science, with topics related to the creation of predictive models, both regression and classification, in the areas of health, financial incentives and audience measurement in out-of-home media. In 2014, he co-founded the scientific event WICTA - Special Interest Group on ICT for Auditing & Accounting, of which he is the co-chair, and it will have its 11th edition in 2023 (CISTI'2023 - 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies - WICTA 2023). He is also the author of several books, including "IBM SPSS Statistics: My Quick Reference Guide" (3rd edition), "Hypothesis Testing with SPSS: My Quick Reference Guide" (2nd edition), and "Hypothesis Testing and Regression" (with SPSS and R, forthcoming), all published in Portuguese by Edições Sílabo. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with other higher education institutions (Coimbra Business School, A Politécnica - Maputo, Institute of Health Sciences of the Catholic University, and Higher School of Real Estate Activities) and since 2013, he has been collaborating with the Order of Certified Accountants (OCC) in the preparation and teaching Microsoft Excel training courses. For more information, please visit: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/rml/en. 

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).