Eunice Magalhães, PhD, is researcher at CIS-Iscte and assistant professor at the Master of Community Psychology, Protection of Child and Youth at Risk. From 2020-2022 she was deputy director of CIS.

Her research interests include victimization during childhood and adulthood, its impact in victims' mental health as well as the protective factors in these abusive contexts. She is particularly interested in resilience after exposure to violence across life, and specifically with young people in residential care settings. 

Also, she explores issues related to foster families, with a particular focus on why people become a foster parent. Currently, she is PI of a La Caixa Foundation funded project (Protecting the children’s right to live in a family: insights to recruit foster families in Portugal).  

Her professional experience includes the child protection system for young people at risk, as case worker in a child protection agency.