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. More recently, 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 currently works at CIS-Iscte as a science communication manager.