Professional Associations
Association Period
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Since 2021
International Society for Emotional Intelligence Since 2021
Psychological Science Accelerator Since 2019
European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC) Since 2017
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle International Seminar on Gifted Education Aventura Social Associação 2024
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Conference Conference "Promoting Mental Health in Schools" - National Closing Conference of the Projeto Erasmus + PROMEHS. 2022
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference Conference "Promoting Mental Health in Schools" - National Closing Conference of the Projeto Erasmus + PROMEHS. Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2022
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle RESCUR em Ação project - Data return session to the community, organisation of the Art and Resilience Exhibition. Coimbra Aventura Social Associação 2018 - 2019
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle RESCUR em Ação project - Data return session to the community, organisation of the Art and Resilience Exhibition. Coimbra 2018 - 2019
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle RESCUR em Ação project - Data return session to the community, organisation of the Art and Resilience Exhibition. Sintra 2018
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle RESCUR em Ação project - Data return session to the community, organisation of the Art and Resilience Exhibition. Sintra Aventura Social Associação 2018
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle RESCUR em Ação project - Data return session to the community, organisation of the Art and Resilience Exhibition. Almada Aventura Social Associação 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle RESCUR em Ação project - Data return session to the community, organisation of the Art and Resilience Exhibition. Almada 2018
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Congress Conference "ENRETE - Enhancing Resilience Through Teacher Education" - National Closing Conference of the Projet Erasmus + ENRETE. 2018
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Conference "ENRETE - Enhancing Resilience Through Teacher Education" - National Closing Conference of the Projet Erasmus + ENRETE. Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2018
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference Conference "30 years Social Adventure" Aventura Social 2017
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference Conferência "30 anos Aventura Social" [Conference "30 years Social Adventure"] 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Kick-off Seminar of the Project "BePositive - Positive Youth Development (PYD) in adolescents". 2016
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Kick-off Seminar of the Project "BePositive - Positive Youth Development (PYD) in adolescents". Aventura Social 2016
Coordination of non-scientific event Workshop Segni Mossi "Yellow training" Arterapias 2016 - 2017
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Art Exhibition/Installation "RESCUR and Human Rights" 2016
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Art Exhibition/Installation RESCUR and Human Rights CPCJ Almada 2016
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Conference 5th European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC) Conference,"Social Emotional Learning and Culture. Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Conference 5th European Network for Social and Emotional Competence (ENSEC) Conference,"Social Emotional Learning and Culture. 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Transnational meeting of the RESCUR project 2015
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Transnational meeting of the RESCUR project Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2015
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle "Dream Teens" II National Meeting Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2015
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle "Dream Teens" II National Meeting 2015
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle I Seminar of the European Association for Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: "Continuities and Separations. From infant to adolescent". Arterapias 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle I Seminar of the European Association for Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: "Continuities and Separations. From infant to adolescent". 2014
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Workshop European Students Week Academy of Psychomotricity, I am living my body 2011
Member of free course/summer school's organizing committee Other Type of Event European Students Week Academy of Psychomotricity, I am living my body Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2011
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Congress I Congresso Nacional de Psicomotricidade [I National Congress of Psychomotricity] 2010
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Congress I National Congress of Psychomotricity Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa 2010
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Congress Seminário Jornadas da Linha de Saúde Infantil [Child Health Seminar] 2010
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Congress Seminário Jornadas da Linha de Saúde Infantil [Child Health Seminar] CSDP 2010
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Congress I Congresso Nacional de Psicomotricidade [I National Congress of Psychomotricity] 2010
Awards
Award Description Year
CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) Weissberg Scholar 2023
Best Intervention Project Poster - XI International Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychology. 2021
Top cited paper in 2020-2021 in the Journal of Community Psychology 2021
Academic Excellence Awards - Master's Finalist top-ranked finalist 2019
Academic Excellence Award for best admission grade for the Master in Science on Emotions in 2016/2017 2016
Scientific Editing/Reviewing Activities
Type of Activity Journal Title Journal ISSN Quartile Period Language
Member of scientific journal editing staff International Journal of Emotional Education 2073-7629 Q2 Since 2025 English
Member of scientific journal editing staff Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy 2773-2339 -- Since 2024 English
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
University of Crete Greece Invited Assistant Professor 2026
Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon Portugal Invited Assistant Professor 2025 - 2026
University of Crete Greece Invited Assistant Professor 2025
Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon Portugal Invited Assistant Professor (Courses Strengthening the resilience of educational professionals & Behaviour management & change at schools) 2024 - 2025
Portuguese Open University (Distance Education and eLearning Laboratory) Portugal Postdoctoral researcher 2023 - 2024