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The team is multidisciplinary, open-minded and determined. It comprises members from Iscte's four schools, with backgrounds as varied as medicine, management, sociology and psychology.
The Iscte-Saúde team was established by a Rector's order and is coordinated by Professor Luísa Lima, with the support of Professor Henrique Martins, whilst Dr Cristina Camilo is responsible for the management of Iscte-Saúde. The team comprises Professors Diana Mendes, Elizabeth Reis, Elsa Pegado, Francisco Nunes, Generosa Nascimento, Rita Espanha, Octavian Pastolache, Sibila Marques, João Ferreira, Patrícia Arriaga and Sónia Bernardes.
TEAM
Luísa Lima is a Full Professor of Social Psychology at the School of Social and Human Sciences at Iscte; she also coordinates the Iscte-Saúde Mission team and chairs the Scientific Council. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Bath. Her research applies social psychology to health and environmental issues, particularly risk perception and social participation.
Henrique Martins holds a degree in medicine, specialising in Internal Medicine, as well as Master's and PhD degrees in Management, and is currently completing his Master's in Law. He is a National Defence Auditor and a university lecturer, teaching and conducting research in Digital Health, Leadership and Management Education for medical students and healthcare professionals. He was one of the first CMIOs in Portugal from 2009 to 2013 at the Fernando Fonseca Hospital in Lisbon. He is the former president of SPMS, Portugal's Digital Health Agency, where he led national eHealth efforts for around seven years. He represented Portugal for eight years and served as co-chair of the EU eHealth Network, the Union's highest political body on eHealth. He was elected a member of the International Academy of Health Informatics in July 2020. Since August 2020, he has served on the Board of Directors of the HL7 Europe Foundation. He now works as an academic at two leading business schools and a medical school, and on individual consultancy projects in Healthcare Transformation and Digital Health (www.henriquemartins.eu). He is the author of a series of articles, some of which focus on new trends in digital health at the national and hospital levels.
Cristina Camilo is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Iscte, where she has taught on the impact of social relationships on health and the effects of emotional sharing on well-being. She holds a PhD in psychology from Iscte. Her research has focused on topics such as emotion management in health communication and the link between social integration, health, and well-being.
Rita Espanha is an Assistant Professor with tenure at Iscte – Lisbon University Institute and director of the Master's programme in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies. She is a researcher at CIES-Iscte and is currently conducting research in the areas of 'Communication, Information Technologies and Health', 'Health Literacy' and 'Generations and Communication Technology'. She coordinates the ERASMUS programme for the Department of Sociology. She is the author of several books and articles in the fields of Health and Communication, Networked Communication, and Young People and the Media in Portugal.
Elsa Pegado holds a PhD in Sociology from Iscte – Lisbon University Institute. She is a researcher at IIscte's Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology and is currently the Centre's deputy director. She is also an Assistant Lecturer at Iscte, where she teaches Sociology of Health and Research Methods and Techniques. She has been conducting research in the sociology of health and illness, specifically on complementary and alternative medicine and medication.
Generosa do Nascimento is a lecturer in the Department of Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour at Iscte. She is Director of the Executive Master's in Healthcare Management, the Postgraduate Programme in Management for Healthcare Professionals, and the Executive Master's in Strategic People Management and Leadership at Iscte Executive Education. She holds a PhD in Management, specialising in Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour, from Iscte. She has served as an adviser to boards of directors and as a consultant in Healthcare Services Management and People Management across the public, private, and social sectors. Healthcare Services Management and Strategic People Management are her main areas of research and teaching.
Sibila Marques is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Iscte, Director of the Master's programme in Social Psychology of Health, and Coordinator of the Health4All Research Group. She is a member of the European group EURAGE and served as the scientific coordinator at Iscte for the European projects SIforAGE and INHERIT. She is the author of the essay *Discrimination against Older People*, published in 2011 by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. She completed her PhD in 2009.
Elizabeth Reis is a Full Professor of Statistics and Data Analysis at the Iscte School of Management. She is currently Vice-Rector for Human Resources Development. Her research has focused on research methodologies, data collection (comparative evaluation of sampling methods, validity and reliability of data collection instruments, and survey quality), and analytical methods.
Francisco Guilherme Nunes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour at Iscte. He is the coordinator of the Master's programme in Health Services Management. His research interests focus on the factors that determine the performance of organisations operating in complex and highly institutionalised environments, such as the health services sector.
Octavian Adrian Postolache is an Associate Professor with tenure at DCTI – ISTA, director of the PhD programme in Information Science and Technology, and director of the Telecommunications Institute's Delegation. He is a Senior Researcher at the Telecommunications Institute, an IEEE Fellow, and Chair of the Portuguese Chapter of IEEE IMS. His areas of interest include smart sensors for biomedical applications, ubiquitous computing and embedded artificial intelligence for distributed physiological signal monitoring systems, VR and AR environments to support physiotherapy, and IoT systems for healthcare. He is an active member of national and international research teams participating in Portuguese, EU and international projects.
Diana Aldea Mendes is an associate professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods in Management and Economics. She is a mathematician and applied scientist with extensive experience in non-linear dynamics (stochastic and deterministic), time-series analysis, data science, computational economics and finance, and control and synchronisation. She is a researcher at BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) and is the author or co-author of over 40 articles and technical reports.
Patrícia Arriaga is an Assistant Professor with tenure at Iscte – Lisbon University Institute and a researcher at CIS-IUL. She holds a PhD in Social and Organisational Psychology, specialising in Social Psychology (2006), a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology (2000) and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (1996). She is certified by the Portuguese Psychologists' Association (OPP) and by EuroPsy in the areas of 'Clinical and Health Psychology', 'Work, Social and Organisational Psychology'. She has an advanced specialisation in 'Neuropsychology'. She was director of the Master's in Psychology of Emotions for four years and of the Master's in the Science of Emotions for five years. Her research interests have centred on the study of affective and cognitive processes applied to health and social psychology, which have resulted in publications and contributions to the development, evaluation and sharing of tools for the community (e.g. games and other information, entertainment and communication systems) with a view to promoting well-being and cognitive and social skills. She is currently investigating the relationship between engagement with art and well-being and health. Her research, which mostly involves multidisciplinary teams, has been funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, the Bial Foundation and the European Commission (Erasmus+).
Sónia Bernardes holds a Master's degree (2003) and a PhD (2008) in Social Psychology of Health (ISCTE). She is an Associate Professor with Aggregation in Psychology in the Department of Psychology at ISCTE, where she began teaching in 1999. She is currently Head of the Department of Psychology. She has served as Vice-President of the School of Social and Human Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Research and Intervention, Director of the Master's programme in Social Psychology of Health, and as coordinator of the Health for All (H4A) Research Group. Fascinated by (social) mind-body relationships, she has focused on these issues in her teaching and research. Her main research interests have generally centred on social inequalities in health and the role of psychosocial influences in the adaptation to chronic illness. She has primarily explored these issues in relation to a particular health-related topic – (chronic) pain. Several academic awards, notably, have recognised her scientific contributions: the Research Merit Award from the Portuguese Society of Health Psychology (2008), the Young Researcher Award from the Portuguese Psychological Association (2013), the Best Paper Award from the Portuguese Association for the Development of Pain Therapies (ASTOR) and the Grüenenenthal PAIN Award 2016.
João Carlos Amaro Ferreira is an associate professor with tenure at Iscte – Lisbon University Institute and a researcher at ISTAR-IUL. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Technological Physics Engineering (1991), a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1993), a PhD in Computer Science (2006) and a qualification from the second PhD Programme in Leaders of Technology Industries, MIT-Portugal (2013). His research interests include Text Mining, Data Mining, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Smart Cities, and Smart Healthcare. He is the author of around 200 scientific articles in the field of computer science. He has participated in 25 scientific projects (both national and international) and submitted 53 project proposals under the H2020, FP7 and PT2020 programmes, ten of which as Principal Investigator (PI). He holds a patent in Edge Computing for a fisheries monitoring system. He was the lead organiser of several conferences: OAIR 2013, INTSYS 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. He has delivered more than 20 keynote/plenary lectures and more than 30 invited talks on various topics relating to computational intelligence. He sits on the editorial board of 12 journals. He is an evaluator and auditor of European projects. He has served on the programme committee of more than 50 scientific conferences and chaired more than 12 sessions at international conferences.
