Researchers

Margarida Vasconcelos is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Lisbon, where she teaches in the areas of Research Methods in Psychology, Epistemology and History of Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Perception, Attention and Memory, and Themes in Neuropsychology; she also teaches Psychology of Communication and Language at Universidade Europeia.

She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Minho and a double MSc in Neurocognitive Processes and Affective Sciences and in Clinical and Health Psychology (from U. Minho and Université Lille III), and is currently also pursuing an MSc in Economics and Public Policy at ISCTE.

Her academic and scientific career has been developed at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and neurophysiology, with a particularly strong specialization in EEG/ERP methodologies, including experimental design, EEG data acquisition, preprocessing, ERP analysis, and the interpretation of neurophysiological markers of cognition. Her research has focused on auditory and language processing, auditory statistical learning, memory, neuroplasticity associated with musical expertise, developmental dyslexia, alcohol-related cognitive impairment, and social cognition, combining behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging approaches, including EEG, MRI, and fMRI. She was a Postdoctoral

Researcher at the Psychological Neuroscience Lab, University of Minho, where she contributed to several research projects and coordinated research activities involving behavioral and neuroimaging data. She has also served as Co-Principal Investigator and team member in multiple competitive funded projects, including FCT-funded research on developmental dyslexia, binge drinking and brain functioning, and early exposure to English as a foreign language. Alongside her academic work, she has held positions in science policy and strategic advisory, including as Political Advisor to the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Administrative Modernization in the XXIII Portuguese Government. She was also a temporary Scientific Officer at the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), responsible for managing scientific panels in the PhD Fellowships Call pf 2024, and a Senior Consultant for Digital Policy at Deloitte Portugal in the context of digital policy and strategy projects for an international organization, the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO).

Her work has been recognized internationally, including through a competitive student grant from the Association for Psychological Science (USA), and she brings a solid record of peer-reviewed publications, student supervision, project coordination, and science communication.

You can find more about her work in ResearchGate, ORCID and Google Scholar. 

You can check her CV here.