João Pedro Fróis, Ph.D. Education, MA Education, MA Psychology. - From 2018 is a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Phenomenological Psychology and Aesthetics, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. He completed his Ph.D. in Education at the Univ. of Lisbon (2005) with a dissertation on Philosophy of Art Education (Calouste Gulbenkian Scholarship). He has an M.A. degree in Psychology (1982) with a thesis on Psychology of Visual Arts and a second M.A. in Education (1994) with a thesis on Special Needs Education. In 1997 he attended an Art Museum Education Training Program at The North Texas Univ. Paul Getty Foundation. He was director and consultant for the Centre for Timorese Citizenship NGO (Lisbon 1997/1998). From 1997 to 2000 he served as Assistant Director in the Educational Service of the Gulbenkian Foundation and coordinated the Gulbenkian Program for Art Education (1997-2004). He has published articles in several journals on the Psychology of the Arts and Museum Education and did scholarly work on the Lev S. Vygotsky's theory of Psychology of Art (3 books published). He has worked as a Rehabilitation Psychologist for more than a decade (1985-1996). He served as principal researcher and leader of 5 research projects and coordinator of one international research project in the area of Art Museum Education. From 2001 to 2014 he was Assistant Professor of Psychology of Arts and Museum Education in graduate courses at the College of Fine Arts (Univ. of Lisbon). Under is supervision several Master thesis and PhD dissertations in Art Education /Psychology of the Visual Arts where presented at the Univ. of Lisbon. He was visiting scholar at the Ohio State Univiersity (2001), the Univ. of Montréal (2008, 2009) and Copenhagen University (2017, 2018, 2019). Member of Scientific Committee of several Congresses of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (New York, France, Taiwan), He was a member of evaluation panel for the call for Ph.D. studentships and post-doctoral fellowships at FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and FRCT (Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Açores) and for the Israel Foundation for Science (2018). Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Environmental Psychology /Frontiers in Psychology, Lausanne. For the last two decades, he published more than 50 scientific papers /chapters in journals and books focusing on the psychology of aesthetics creativity and arts. His interests lie in the Psychology of Visual Arts, Empirical Aesthetics, Aesthetic Education, and the Philosophy and History of Art Education, Art Brut. He was awarded Fellow status by the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics IAEA in 2014 and was its Vice President between 1999 and 2004. Member of the APA-Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Currently, his research interests are in (a) museum visitor research, (b) art museum education, and (c) the role and function of art museums in society. Ultimately he is doing research on Art Brut /Outsider Art writing a biography one of the main figures the Portugues Art Brut as well as scholarly work on a Children Art Collection of Drawings collected in the forties and fifties in Portugal. From 1997 onwards, he has been the independent research team leader and coordinator of several competitive research projects. He is recognized as an authority in the field of art museum research in Portugal as well as in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Visual Arts.