Ana Catarina Canário

Ana Catarina Canário is a researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto and an integrated member of the Center for Psychology of the University of Porto (CPUP). Her research work lies in the areas of developmental, health and community psychology, having focused, in recent years, on the evaluation of evidence-based parenting intervention programs. She is currently principal investigator and co-principal investigator in two projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology on the effects of parenting interventions in different target populations. At an international level, she participates in the COST EurofamNet Action, and is a member of the board of Early Researchers Union at the European Association of Developmental Psychology.

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Carolina Guedes

Carolina Guedes has a Master degree on the field of Psychological Intervention, Education, and Human Development. Child development in the early years of life has been one of my main focuses of interest at an academic and professional level, having collaborated on several projects focused on this stage of development to date. I am currently developing my doctoral project, focused on the development of self-regulation skills during childhood.

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Daniela Leal

Daniela Leal is a PhD student at FPCEUP and holds a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her work is supervised by Susana Coimbra (PhD, University of Porto), Jorge Gato (PhD, University of Porto), and Fiona Tasker (PhD, University of London). Her PhD project is called “Parenting processes and social support networks of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual people: a dyadic, intergenerational and intercultural approach”. Her main research interests are parenting and family processes according to variables such as sexual orientation and gender diversity.

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Filipa Nunes

Filipa Nunes is a PhD researcher at the Psychology Center of the University of Porto and a member of the research group Relational Dynamics, Processes of Change and Well-being. Her research work is carried out in the area of ​​Developmental Psychology. In recent years, her research interests have focused: firstly on advancing knowledge about the operationalization of the sense of personal agency; secondly, contributing to problematizing and identifying its determinants among adolescents and young adults. She is currently collaborating on different projects of her research group. At an international level, she is the representative for Portugal in the Young Scholars Network of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA); and member of European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP). 

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Jorge Gato

Jorge Gato. Psychologist. Graduated in Psychology and Master in Cognitive-Behavioral and Systemic Clinical Psychology from the University of Coimbra. PhD in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto, with a thesis on families formed by LGBTQ+ people. Systemic and Family Therapist by the Portuguese Society of Family Therapy and specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists (OPP), with Advanced Specialty in Psychotherapy. Researcher at the Psychology Center of the University of Porto. His research interests are divided between LGBTQ+ Psychology, Family and Gender, subjects on which he has published nationally and internationally. He is convinced that psychologists have an essential role in contemporary society, both in promoting personal change and social change. To this end, in addition to clinical and research work, it actively participates in the defense of the human rights of LGBTQ+ people.

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Mariana Carrito

Mariana Carrito is a PhD researcher at the Psychology Center of the University of Porto and a member of the Human Sexuality group (SexLab). As an experimental psychologist, Mariana is mainly interested in the study of the evolutionary mechanisms inherent to mating strategies in humans. She has knowledge in the area of ​​neuropsychology, namely in the analysis of evoked potentials and peripheral psychophysiological measures.

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Teresa Jacques

Teresa Jacques is currently completing her PhD at the Psychology Center of the University of Porto. At the University of Porto, she completed an integrated master's degree in psychology, specializing in clinical and health psychology. She has clinical experience in learning disabilities. Her research interests include emotions, language and cognition. Since 2016, she has been an associate member of the European Literacy Network.

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Tiago Ferreira

Tiago Ferreira holds a PhD in Psychology and is a researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. His research addresses the contributions of relationships in family and school contexts to the development of social and emotional skills at an early age. In this area, he has been involved in several research projects and contributed to publications in national and international journals. He is also interested in statistical issues associated with the analysis of longitudinal data and the psychometric characteristics of psychological assessment instruments. He has been responsible for facilitating initial training in R programming and advanced training in multilevel and longitudinal data analysis.

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