Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

Work experience

• 2021 - today: Research Associate for Counseling, School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW
• 2023 - today: Research Associate (FCT CEEC program) for Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon Portugal
• 2021 - today: Invited Assistant Professor for Católica School of Business and Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa UCP, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2020 - 2021: Research Associate for CEDOC, NOVA Medical School NMS, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2015 - 2020: Principal Investigator (Bial Foundation Grant) of the research project for Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Education

• 2021 - PhD in Psychology for Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2010 - Master in Clinical Psychology for Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2008 - Bachelor in Psychological Sciences Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Main focus

• Clinical decision making and feedback
• Intuition and causal attributions
• Self-help online interventions
• Transition of mental health care to the digital context
• Mental illness stigma
• Mental health in intersectional vulnerability contexts (e.g., gender non-conforming identities)