Eunice Magalhães, PhD, is Assistant Professor at ISCTE and Full Researcher at CIS-Iscte - Centre for Research and Social Intervention. She is currently the Director of the Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Deputy Director of the Department of Psychology. Between 2020 and 2022, she was Deputy Director of CIS-Iscte.    Eunice Magalhães holds a PhD in Psychology from ISCTE. She has led and collaborated on research projects focused on children's rights, child abuse and neglect, residential and foster care, as well as on the mental health of victims of violence (mostly adolescents and adults). Her work has been published in leading journals, books, and book chapters focused on topics such as supportive relationships in alternative care or child protection and children's rights. She regularly presents her work at national and international conferences and actively collaborates with national and international research teams.

Ângela Romão has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (2024) and a Master's in Social Psychology of Health (2015) from Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. She is currently an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte), where she has been involved in research projects since 2013. Her most recent work (funded by Ministério da Defesa - Ref. MND-CRSM_2024) focuses on the psychosocial impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among veterans, including the development of a psychoeducational group intervention programme. Her research interests include informal care, dehumanization, stereotypes, health, justice perceptions, and aging.

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.    

With a PhD in Psychology from Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, she has been conducting research in the fields of disability and well-being. Her work focuses on the impact of macro social factors (such as equality and public policies) and intergroup dynamics (ableism, identity, and intergroup contact) on the health and well-being of people with disabilities. More recently, she has contributed to civic participation and well-being projects, including mental health among higher education students in Portugal. Currently, she is a guest assistant researcher on the BeWell-Iscte project

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. 

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).

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).  

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). 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 also have professional experience in intervention with children, young people, and families in the child protection system.

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.  

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

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).

Gabriel Cipriano is an Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, and a researcher at CIES-Iscte (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology). With a PhD in Policies of School Administration and Management, his main research interests focus on evaluation theories, assessment of learning, research methods and techniques, research data management, evaluation of public policies in education, school administration, and school commuting.

Inês C. Sousa is a researcher at CIES-Iscte and an Invited Assistant Professor at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where she teaches courses on Work and Organizational Psychology, Safety and Health at Work, and Organizational Behavior. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and completed her Master's degree in Social and Organizational Psychology. In 2020, she earned her Ph.D. in Management with a specialization in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior from Iscte. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “Leveraging an aging workforce: Contributions to longer and better working lives”. Inês's research interests span aging at work, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, retirement, science communication, and public involvement in science. She has published her work in reputable journals such as Current Psychology, Work, Aging and Retirement, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Frontiers in Psychology.

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.    

Holds a degree in Clinical Psychology (University of Coimbra). She completed her Master’s and PhD in Social Psychology at ISCTE (including a research internship at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia). She holds a professional specialty in Work, Social and Organizational Psychology and an advanced specialty in Psychotherapy (OPP), with EMDR training (Levels 1 and 2). She is a lecturer at ISCTE and a researcher at CIS since 1999, having held several management roles during this period: she is currently Director of the Master’s Programme in Community Psychology and Protection of Children and Young People at Risk (also in 2018–2019); she was President of the Specialized Committee on Ethics in Psychology (2023–2025); and she was President of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE for two terms (2019–2023). She has coordinated and collaborated on social and community intervention studies and projects, particularly in the field of programme evaluation, at the local/municipal level, at the national level (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion/Learn, Play, Grow Groups; Choices Programme, 7th Generation; studies for the National Council for Health Communication), and in other international projects (e.g., ISCWeB – International Survey on Children’s Well-Being; GRIT – Erasmus+ Project – Growing in Urban Education and Diversity; Yar4all). In 2018, she collaborated as a Quality Monitor for the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in an OECD-led project on socioemotional skills, and served as technical and scientific consultant for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies Programme (2018–2022). In addition to her longstanding interest in inclusion (having been involved in the Portuguese Diversity Charter), she has worked in the field of risk (Gambling and adolescence, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University) and in child and youth protection. Together with colleagues, she has developed materials aimed at promoting children’s rights (“Discovering Children’s Rights”, published by the Portuguese Parliament), universal prevention of sexual abuse (“The Adventures of Búzio and Coral”; “Picos and Avelã Discover the Treasure Forest”), and child hearing in court (“Hearing the Child: A Guide to Good Practice”; “João Goes to Court/The Day Mariana Didn’t Want To”; Project 12: www.projeto12.pt). In 2017, she took part in the T.A.L.E. project (Training Activities for Legal Experts), which aimed to train professionals for the correct implementation of the Council of Europe Guidelines on Child-Friendly Justice. She was a member of the Board of CSIS – Child Safeguarding in Sport and of the Scientific Council of the UBUNTU Leaders Academy. She was a trainer at the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ) on Child Hearing (2016–2023). She provided supervision to family support teams (SCML, 2017–2020). She has served as consultant for ACRIDES (Cape Verde) and for the Council of Europe within a project on child-friendly justice.   She is currently a member of the VITA Group, a monitoring group for situations of sexual violence involving children and vulnerable adults within the context of the Catholic Church in Portugal, and serves on the national board of the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association (OPP). She received the OPP Southern Region Career Award in 2020.

Joana Baptista is an Assistant Professor at the ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. Her research focuses on the early relational determinants of child development, particularly the quality of caregiver-child interactions. In recent years, she has concentrated on understanding the impact of early adverse experiences, with a special emphasis on how deprived parental care affects children's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. She is the Principal Investigator 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). Her work also explores how the quality of mother- and father-child interactions shapes executive functioning in infants and preschoolers, both in typically developing children and those born preterm. Joana Baptista has published extensively in leading journals and serves on the editorial board of Infant Behavior & Development.

João Manuel de Oliveira researches on bodies and their performativity 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.   PhD on Theory and Method of Social Psychology (2009) and habilitation in Psychology (2024) in the field of Social Psychology of Gender, both at ISCTE.

Lígia Monteiro is an assistant professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and a full researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte). She holds a PhD from NOVA University of Lisbon/ISPA-University Institute and has been awarded several grants through competitive calls from FCT (the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), including a doctoral and two postdoctoral fellowships (one at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies - Auburn University).  With a background on educational and developmental Psychology, she has conducted and participated in several research projects studying the impact of the quality of parenting representations and behaviours, father’s involvement and family dynamics (e.g. coparenting) on children’s socio-emotional outcomes (e.g. attachment and peer interactions) during their early years. She has published her work in several peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Attachment and Human development, Child Development or European Journal of Developmental Psychology); coordinated and participated in special issues on topics such as attachment or fatherhood; as well as books and book chapters. She has presented papers at the most important international conferences, relating to her fields of study. She has collaborated with multiple researchers from Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.

As an Invited Assistant at ISCTE Business School within the Bachelor's program in Human Resource Management and a Research Assistant at BRU-IUL, Luís Miguel Simões is currently pursuing a PhD in Management at ISCTE, specializing in human resources and organizational behavior. The professional journey began in international recruitment and selection, followed by a transition into a role related to Human Resources Technician within a medical devices company. In this position, responsibilities included new member training and development, training the entire EMEA team on new software, administrative support, purchase orders, HR analytics, and internal project coordination and leadership.   Additionally, contributions have been made as a consultant to international projects focused on social and educational training programs and program development.   A position is also held as Human Resources and Marketing Director at a Portuguese film festival.   As a researcher, focus lies in projects pertaining to leadership and its impact on employee attitudes and behaviors.

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.

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 and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of European Social Survey. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Bath, a Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and in 2025 was awarded with the career prize of the Portuguese Psychological Association.

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)

Working in the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior from ISCTE Business School, develops research focused on the topics of organizational leadership, governance and political behavior, emotions in organizations, competencies and attitudes towards technology. Has experience in managing university knowledge transfer units since 2009 and has coordinated several projects and studies (both executive and scientific coordination) bridging with the community and business, both in national and international settings. These projects have been targeting mostly applied research and organizational intervention in the area of organizational behavior (Organizational diagnosis and innovation) and HRM (professional selection, competencies profiling, team building). Supervises master dissertations and doctorate theses in management some within a joint program with Southern Medical University (Guangzhou, China) and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu). Acted as jury member in several public officer selections (middle management and executive positions) for Portuguese governmental and public institutions.  

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.

Rodrigo Vieira de Assis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte). He is currently a member of the Pedagogical Council of Iscte and of the Pedagogical Committee of the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP). He also serves as an alternate member of the Ethics Council of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS). Throughout his career, he has participated in national and international research projects developed in institutions across different countries (e.g., Portugal, Brazil, United States). His recent publications have focused on issues related to social inequalities, labour precariousness, everyday life in urban peripheries, and youth sociability dynamics in socially vulnerable contexts. His current research interests include the dynamics of social inequality reproduction, the socio-political attitudes of social classes, and the relationship between labour precariousness and social protection gaps. He is committed to analysing social phenomena across multiple scales: at the micro level, he explores social trajectories, life narratives and processes of individuation, seeking to understand experiences, perceptions and everyday practices; at the macro level, he investigates the reproduction of social inequalities, as well as patterns, trends and structural changes in attitudes, perceptions and practices within stratified societies. Methodologically, he privileges multifaceted approaches, guided by both intensive and extensive research designs, including mixed methods. His experience encompasses studies based on questionnaire surveys, interview-based surveys, participant observation and urban ethnographies, applying a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods supported by specialised software (SPSS, JAMOVI, MAXQDA, among others). Consequently, he has also been dedicated to methodological innovation in the social sciences, through the design and teaching of courses and modules, as well as the development of publications aimed at improving and disseminating best practices in the use of quantitative and qualitative methods for data analysis in sociology.

Degree in Psychology in 2000, specialising in Work Psychology, at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. PhD in Psychology, in 2006, at the same Faculty, with a thesis on aging and work. Post-Doctorate in Ergonomics at the Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon. Associate Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, in the Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, teaching, since 2007, subjects in the areas of Work Psychology, Health and Safety at Work, Organizational Behaviour and Qualitative Methods, in the different programmes, and having supervised several master's and doctoral works. Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte (Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory) developing research on the relationship between health, age, and work, in particular on working conditions, psychosocial risk factors, telework, aging and age diversity at work, having national and international publications in these areas.

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).