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

Dr. Guerra holds a PhD in Social Psychology (2007), and she is a Senior 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, common identity and contact interventions to reduce discrimination and promote social change, as well as on intergroup approaches to collective narcissism, extremism, and hate speech. She is a Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI, Division 9 of the American Psychological Association). She coordinated several projects supported by competitive grants from the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), the European Commission (European Fund for the Integration of non-EU immigrants, EIF, Citizens, Equality,  Rights and Values Programme - CERV), and La Caixa Foundation and participated in several others as a team member. Her research has been published in respectable journals in her field (e.g., Psych. Science;  Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Political Psychology, Eur. J. of Soc. Psychology., J. Personality and Social Psychology, J. of Applied Social Psychology, Eur. J. of Personality, Journal of Social Issues) and chapters in edited peer-reviewed volumes (e.g., Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination), accumulating over 2000 citations. She actively integrates research into teaching activities, teaching in master programs in intercultural relations and social psychology, and supervising PhD and master students.  She is Associated Editor of Journal of Applied Social Psychology and served as a Guest Editor of the Special Issue, Unpacking the social psychology of populism, for the Journal of Theoretical and Social Psychology. She is currently a a member of the Executive Committee of the International Contact Research Network. She served as the Vice Director of CIS_Iscte from 2016-2020 and is a member of CIS_Iscte Scientific Commission (2021-25). She served as Vice-President of  the Scientific Council of ISCTE Knowledge & Innovation Center (2023-25) and she is currently a co-coordinator of the Thematic Line Global Governance (SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy).

Aristides I. Ferreira is an Associate Professor at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. He is also a member of the Scientific Board and a researcher at the Business Research Unit in the same institute. He earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Minho (Portugal) and had a Postdoctoral in Management at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). He has been teaching courses related with Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior and Change Management in several Undergraduate Degrees, Master and PhD, mainly in Management Degrees. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Psychological Assessment since 2018. His research interests include psychological assessment, leadership, creativity, change management and presenteeism. In recent years, he has been a researcher in several funded research projects and has collaborated with several private organizations. His research work has appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Project Management, the Journal of Business Research, the British Journal of Management and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.