Pedro Simão Mendes holds a PhD in Basic Psychology by the University of Minho (2021), a master's degree in Psychology by the University of Minho (2015) and, through an exchange between the universities of Minho and Lille, a master's degree in Psychology of Neurocognitive Processes and Affective Sciences by the University of Lille (France, 2015). He has worked in the field of Psychology, with an emphasis on Basic Cognitive Processes. His research interests include human behavior in general, and human memory in particular, with a special focus on ways to improve learning. His research topics have explored the effect of repeated testing in a classroom context (master's degree) and the monitoring of word learning in a laboratory context through the study of learning judgments (doctorate). He has published 3 articles in specialized journals as first author and received 1 prize at an international congress. He was a guest professor with the rank of assistant professor at the Lusófona University of Porto (2021), and at the University of Minho (2021-2022), teaching curricular units in Psychology degrees. In the last years, he developed an interest in the field of Science Communication, being selected for the International Summer School "Communicating Science" organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Berlin, 2021). He worked at CIS-Iscte as a science communication manager (2022-2026). After securing funding from FCT through the 7th edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (2024.09867.CEECIND), is investigating how escape rooms have been used in Science Communication and how people accept or reject this format as a strategy for communicating contemporary social issues (e.g., the climate crisis).