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Eliana Silva completed a Master's degree in Psychology at the University of Minho's School of Psychology in 2012 and a PhD in Applied Psychology at the same institution in 2017. She is a researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, working in the LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory. She participated in two Postdoctoral projects in the field of Engineering at Centro ALGORITMI and LIACC. She has published 31 articles in journals and at conferences, as well as four book chapters. She has participated in more than 60 scientific events. She has received seven prizes and/or awards. She has participated in more than 10 research projects. She has supervised 19 master's theses and two bachelor's theses. She currently supervises 10 students on their master's and doctoral theses. She is a co-principal investigator on a nationally funded project. Her main research topics are emotional regulation, serious games, adolescents, positive development, cognitive rehabilitation, acquired brain injury and co-design. She is a reviewer for 14 psychology and engineering journals, and a conference reviewer for five conferences on serious games. She has interacted with over 50 collaborators in co-authoring scientific papers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Eliana Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Eliana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F015-4C61-E364
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2003-0488
AuthenticusID
R-001-S2J
Scopus Author Id
55420444200

Email addresses

  • elianasilva@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10 - 2020/09
Concluded
 Research Project: IA.SAE - Artificial Intelligence in Food and Economic Safety. “Iniciativa Nacional Competências Digitais e.2030 – INCoDe.2030” (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/10/04 - 2019/06/30
Concluded
 Qvida+: Continuous Estimation of Quality of Life for Effective Clinical Decision Support. Projeto de Investigação Qvida+: Estimação Contínua da Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio Eficaz à Decisão Clínica (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-003446). (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2012/09 - 2017/03/08
Concluded
 Applied Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
"Emotion regulation in the daily life of adolescents and their parents: Links to psychopathology and optimal functioning" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimously approved with the mention of Very Good
2007/09 - 2012/07/24
Concluded
 Psychology (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Clinical Psychology
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
"Intimate relationships, emotion regulation and nonsuicidal self-injury in college students" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17.4
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/20 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/12/15 - 2022/06/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2019/10 - 2020/09/03 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017/10/04 - 2019/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
2013/01 - 2017/03 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/04 - 2019/04 Professional Internship for the Portuguese Order of Psychologists as part of the research project Qvida+: Continuous Estimation of Quality of Life for Effective Clinical Decision Making. Optimizer, Portugal
Optimizer, Portugal
2009/12 - 2010/11 Grant for Integration into Research from Foundation for Science and Technology Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01 - 2025/12 Laboratório Associado de Sistemas Inteligentes
168241UID
LA/P/0104/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0104/2020
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Tecnologias e Sistemas, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Computacionais Embebidos e de Tempo-Real, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Grupo de Investigação em Engenharia e Computação Inteligente para a Inovação e o Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/10 - 2020/09 IA.SAE - Artificial Intelligence in Food and Economic Safety. “Iniciativa Nacional Competências Digitais e.2030 – INCoDe.2030”
INCoDe.2030
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/10/04 - 2019/06/30 Qvida+: Quality of life continuous estimation for clinical decision support (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-003446)
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-003446
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2013/01 - 2016/12 Emotion regulation in the daily life of adolescents and their parents: Links to psychopathology and optimal functioning. (SFRH/BD/90581/2012 - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology))
SFRH/BD/90581/2012
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/12 - 2010/11 Nonsuicidal self-injury in individuals with psychopathology: Associated emotional states, motivations and objectives of nonsuicidal self-injury (BII/UNI/1662/PSI/2009, FCT)
BII/UNI/1662/PSI/2009
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/12/15 - 2022/06/30 TOGETHER: Connecting people and systems to support an effective psychosocial adjustment to genetic testing in the context of inherited cancer risk (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030980),
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030980
Researcher
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Research Center in Psychology
UID/PSI/01662/2019
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 1662 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/PSI/UI1662/2011
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2025 - Current AISupply - Retail Demand Forecasting and Supply Chain Optimization using Artificial Intelligence
MPr-2023-4 - SIID
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
Ongoing
2025 - Current RETAILL - REtail using Technology based on Artificial InteLLigence
COMPETE2030-FEDER-00386800
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
2024/01/01 - Current CoRe - Serious Games for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
NORTE2030-FEDER-00588800
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal

Optimizer, Portugal

Linovt, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2022/06 PLAY-THE-ODDS: Development of a game-based communication tool to help parents and children facing hereditary cancer risk (FCT, EXPL/PSI-GER/1270/2021)
EXPL/PSI-GER/1270/2021
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/10 - 2020/09 IntellWheels2.0 Intelligent Wheelchair with Flexible Multimodal Interface and Realistic Simulator (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-39898)
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-39898
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2019/10 - 2020/09 Sono ao Volante 2.0 - Sistema de Informação para a Previsão do Sono ao Volante e a Deteção de Distúrbio ou Privação Crónica do Sono [Sono ao Volante 2.0 - Information System for Predicting Sleep at the Wheel and Detecting Chronic Sleep Disturbance or Deprivation (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-039720)
(NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-039720)
Researcher
2018 - 2019 Eustress - Sistema de Informação para a monotorização, avaliação e previsão contínua dos níveis de Stress através de métodos não intrusivos [Eustress - Information system for continuous monitoring, evaluation and prediction of stress levels using non-intrusive methods] (NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-017832)
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-017832
Researcher
Optimizer, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2011/09 - 2014/07 Peer Tutoring
not applicable
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Concluded
2010 - 2011 Experience of finalization of therapy for clients and therapists
not applicable
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Célia Sales; Paula Mena Matos; Carla Crespo; Catarina Brandão; Eliana Silva; Esperança Lima; Eunice Silva; et al. Adaptação psicológica da pessoa e da família ao risco de cancro hereditário - Livro Branco [Psychological adaptation of the individual and the family to the risk of hereditary cancer - White Paper]. 2022.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Freire, Teresa; Tavares, Dionísia; Silva, Eliana; Teixeira, Ana. "Flow, Leisure, and Positive Youth Development". In Flow Experience: Empirical Research & Applications, edited by László Harmat; Frans Ørsted Andersen; Fredrik Ullén; Jon Wright; Gaynor Sadlo, 163-178. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-28634-1_11
  2. Freire, Teresa; Silva, Eliana. "Adolescentes e desenvolvimento positivo: Para uma abordagem inovadora da adolescência [Adolescents and positive development: For an innovative approach of adolescence]". In Adolescência: Desafios e Riscos, edited by T. Medeiros, 47-70. Portugal: Letras Lavadas edições., 2013.
    Published
  3. Silva, Eliana. "O conceito de mentoring [Mentoring concept]". In Tutoria por Pares na Universidade: Manual para Tutores [Peer Tutoring at University: Handbook for Tutors], edited by Teresa Freire, 13-15. Portugal: Universidade do Minho, 2012.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Silva, Eliana; Joaquim Gonçalves; Luís Paulo Reis; Victor Carvalho. "Avaliação de Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio à Decisão Clínica [Quality of life continuous estimation for clinical decision support]". Paper presented in 4º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses [4th Congress of Order of Portuguese Psychologists], Braga, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Catarina Gonçalves; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Emotion Regulation Through Play: A Serious Game for Preschool Children". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025, Lisboa, 2025.
    Published
  2. Silva, Eliana; Carolina Figueira; Reis, Luis Paulo; Marta Parreira; Ana Ramos; Catarina Fernandes; Marta Reis; Sara Araújo Silva. "The Co-Design process behind CogniSpace: A Serious Game for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabiliation". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025, Lisboa, 2025.
    Published
  3. Silva, Eliana. "Emotion Odyssey: Promoting Emotion Regulation Skills in Families through a Serious Game". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025, Lisboa, 2025.
    Published
  4. Silva, Eliana; Bárbara Carvalho; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Serious Games for Emotion Regulation in Children: A Systematic Review". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2025, Manchester, 2025.
    In press
  5. David Fang; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Designing Serious Games to Support Teachers’ Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2025, Manchester, 2025.
    In press
  6. Vânia Silva; Pedras, Susana; Silva, Eliana; Marcos Silva. "The Qualitative Usability of a Serious Game to Promote Well-Being in Older Adults". Paper presented in IV Simpósio Internacional de Inovação, Tecnologias e Jogos em Saúde, 2025.
    In press
  7. Carolina Figueira; Simão Reis; Luís Paulo Reis; Silva, Eliana. "Promoting Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation with a Co-Designed Multiplayer Serious Game.". Paper presented in GALA - Games and Learning Alliance Conference, 2024.
    Published
  8. Silva, Eliana; Pedro França; Luís Paulo Reis. "GamEmotion: A Serious Game for Emotion Regulation in Young Adolescents.". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG), Milan, 2024.
    Published
  9. Mónica Pereira; Simão Reis; Luís Paulo Reis; Silva, Eliana. "Co-Design of a Serious Game to Promote Emotion Regulation Strategies in Parents.". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2024, Milan, 2024.
    Published
  10. Bernardo Ferreira; Simão Reis; Luís Paulo Reis; Marta Parreira; Eliana Silva. "Co-Development of a Serious Game for Social Skills Training for patients with Acquired Brain Injury.". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2024, Milan, 2024.
    Published
  11. Silva, Eliana; Pedro Gomes; Matos, Paula Mena; Eunice R. Silva; João Silva; Célia M. D. Sales. "Psychosocial needs and preferences of individuals with hereditary cancer syndromes: Practice implications for the healthcare responsiveness.". Paper presented in 21st International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC21), Virtual Conference, 2021.
    Published
  12. Alexandra Oliveira; Joyce Aguiar; Silva, Eliana; Brígida Mónica Faria; Helena Gonçalves; Luís Teófilo; Joaquim Gonçalves; et al. "Assessing daily activities using a PPG sensor embedded in a wristband-type activit tracker". Paper presented in WorldCIST'20, Budva, 2020.
    Published
  13. Silva, Eliana; Aguiar, Joyce; Oliveira, Alexandra; Faria, Brígida Mónica; Reis, Luís Paulo; Carvalho, Victor; Gonçalves, Joaquim; Sá, Jorge Oliveira. "An Approach to Assess Quality of Life through Biometric Monitoring in Cancer Patients". Paper presented in WorldCIST’19 – 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, La Toja, 2019.
    Published
  14. Silva, Eliana; Aguiar, Joyce; Reis, Luís Paulo; Sá, Jorge Oliveira; Gonçalves, Joaquim; Carvalho, Victor. "Information System for Monitoring and Assessing Stress among Medical Students". Paper presented in WorldCIST’19 – 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, La Toja, 2019.
    Published
  15. Goncalves, Joaquim; Silva, Eliana; Carvalho, Victor. "Detection of sleep disturbances for road prevention". Paper presented in 2018 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Cáceres, 2018.
    Published • 10.23919/cisti.2018.8399364
Conference poster
  1. Carvalho, Bárbara; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Serious Games for Emotion Regulation in Children: A Systematic Review". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2025, 2025.
  2. David Fang; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Designing Serious Games to Support Teachers’ Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2025, 2025.
  3. Diogo Pinto; Diogo Neves; Francisco Fernandes; Rafael Pires; Reis, Luis Paulo; Silva, Eliana. "Development of Competitive Serious Games as a Tool for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2025.
  4. Catarina Gonçalves; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Training Emotion Regulation Skills in Preschool Children: a Serious Game Approach". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2025.
  5. David Fang; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Promoting Teacher Well-Being Through Gamification: A Co-Designed Emotion Regulation Tool". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2025.
  6. Pedro Gomes; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo; Sousa, Mariana. "Co-Designing a Serious Game to promote emotional skills in adolescents in Residential Care". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2025.
  7. Bárbara Carvalho; Silva, Eliana; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Emotion Regulation in Children: Designing a Serious Game with a Co-Design Approach". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2025.
  8. Pedras, Susana; Vânia Silva; Silva, Eliana. "Recetividade dos Idosos para Jogar um Jogo Sério que Promova o Bem-Estar [Reciprocity of the Elderly to Play a Serious Game that Promotes Well-Being]". Paper presented in II Congresso Internacional de Gerontologia, 2025.
  9. Silva, Eliana. "COGNISPACE: Innovative Serious Games Designed for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation.". Paper presented in HEALTHINF2025 - 18th International Conference on Health Informatics and BIOSTEC2025 - 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, 2025.
  10. Carolina Figueira; Simão Reis; Luís Paulo Reis; Silva, Eliana. "Promoting Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation with a Co-Designed Multiplayer Serious Game". Paper presented in GALA - Games and Learning AllianceConference, 2024.
  11. Paulo Pinto; Luís Paulo Reis; Eliana Silva. "Comunicação entre Pais-Filhos no Contexto do Cancro Pediátrico: Proposta de um Chatbot para Pais [Parent-Child Communication in the Context of Paediatric Cancer: Proposal for a Chatbot for Parents]". Paper presented in 6º ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE JOVENS INVESTIGADORES EM ONCOLOGIA (ENJIO) [NATIONAL MEETING OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS IN ONCOLOGY], 2024.
  12. João Silva; Mónica Pereira; Luís Paulo Reis; Silva, Eliana. "Emoções em Família: Desenvolvimento Participativo de Jogos Sérios [Emotions in the Family: Participatory Development of Serious Games]". Paper presented in 6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses e XIII Congresso Ibero-Americano de Psicologia [6th Congress of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists and 13th Ibero-American Congress of Psychology], 2024.
  13. Bernardo Ferreira; Carolina Figueira; Luís Paulo Reis; Silva, Eliana. "Reabilitação Cognitiva e Psicossocial na Lesão Cerebral Adquirida: Co-criação de Jogos Sérios Multijogador [Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury: Co-creation of Serious Multiplayer Games]". Paper presented in 6th Congress of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists and 13th Ibero-American Congress of Psychology., 2024.
  14. Carolina Figueira; Eliana Silva; Simão Reis; Luís Paulo Reis. "Integrating Co-designed multiplayer serious games in cognitive and social rehabilitation.". Paper presented in III Simpósio Internacional de Inovação, Tecnologias e Jogos em Saúde - Tecnologia e Gamificação Aplicada à Saúde [III International Symposium on Innovation, Technologies and Games in Health - Technology and Gamification Applied to Health], 2024.
  15. Silva, Eliana; Pedro França; Luís Paulo Reis. "GamEmotion: Um Jogo Sério para Promoção de Competências de Regulação Emocional em Jovens Adolescentes [GamEmotion: A Serious Game to Promote Emotional Regulation Skills in Young Adolescents]". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2024 – Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal [Encontro Ciência 2024 - Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal], 2024.
  16. João Silva; Silva, Eliana; Luís Paulo Reis; Simão Reis. "Co-Creation of a Serious Game: An Innovative Approach for Promoting Emotion Regulation Skills in Parents and Adolescents.". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2024 – Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal [Encontro Ciência 2024 - Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal], 2024.
  17. Bernardo Ferreira; Marta Parreira; Silva, Eliana; Simão Reis; Luís Paulo Reis. "Jogo Sério para o Treino de Competências Sociais de Pacientes com Lesão Cerebral Adquirida [Serious game for training social skills in patients with acquired brain injury]". Paper presented in III Simpósio Internacional de Inovação, Tecnologias e Jogos em Saúde - Tecnologia e Gamificação Aplicada à Saúde [III International Symposium on Innovation, Technologies and Games in Health - Technology and Gamification Applied to Health], 2024.
  18. Eliana Silva; Mónica Pereira; João Silva; Pedro França; Luís Paulo Reis; Simão Reis. "Emoções em Jogo (Sério): Uma Proposta Inovadora para Promoção de Competências de Regulação Emocional em Adolescentes e Pais. [Emotions at Play (Seriously): An Innovative Proposal for Promoting Emotional Regulation Skills in Adolescents and Parents]". Paper presented in International Congress on Psychological Interventions: Challenges and Potential of Technology in Psychological Intervention, 2024.
  19. Paulo Pinto; Silva, Eliana; Luís Paulo Reis. "Communication Challenges in Childhood Cancer: An Informative Chatbot Solution.". Paper presented in III Simpósio Internacional de Inovação, Tecnologias e Jogos em Saúde - Tecnologia e Gamificação Aplicada à Saúde [III International Symposium on Innovation, Technologies and Games in Health - Technology and Gamification Applied to Health], 2024.
  20. Mónica Pereira; Eliana Silva; Luís Paulo Reis. "Collaborative Development of a Serious Game to Promote Emotion Regulation.". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2024.
  21. Bernardo Ferreira; Eliana Silva; Luís Paulo Reis. "Social Skills Training in Acquired Brain Injury: Co-Development of a Serious Game". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2024.
  22. João Silva; Eliana Silva; Luís Paulo Reis. "Co-Creation of a Serious Game: An Innovative Approach for Promoting Emotion Regulation Skills in Parents and Adolescen". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2024.
  23. Paulo Pinto; Silva, Eliana; Luís Paulo Reis. "Challenges in Family Communication in Paediatric Cancer: Developing an Informative Chatbot.". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2024.
  24. Carolina Figueira; Silva, Eliana; Luís Paulo Reis. "Co-creation of Multiplayer Serious Games for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation.". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)], 2024.
  25. Marisa Magno; Célia M. D. Sales; Eliana Silva; Maria Carolina Neves; João Pinho da Silva; Pedro Gomes; Paula Mena Matos. Corresponding author: Marisa Magno. "Ajustamento psicossocial ao teste de predisposição genética para o cancro: Estudo exploratório de preditores individuais [Psychosocial adjustment to genetic predisposition testing for cancer: An exploratory study of individual predictors]". Paper presented in 3º Encontro Nacional de Jovens Investigadores em Oncologia (3rd National Meeting of Young Researchers in Psychology), 2021.
  26. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa; Faria, Susana. "Emotion regulation strategies in daily life of Portuguese Adolescents: An experience sampling study". Paper presented in 8th European Conference on Positive Psychology (Angers, France), 2016.
  27. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa. "Transmissão das estratégias de regulação emocional dos pais para os filhos adolescentes: Efeito moderador de características dos adolescentes e da relação com os pais [Transmission of emotion regulation strategies from parents do their adolescents: The moderator role of adolescents¿ characteristics and parental relationship]". Paper presented in VII Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (VII Seminar of Research in Psychology; Braga, Portugal), 2016.
  28. Silva, Eliana; Machado, Bárbara C.; Gonçalves, Sónia. "Romantic relationships and nonsuicidal self-injury among Portuguese college students: The mediating role of emotion regulation". Paper presented in 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (Braga, Portugal), 2015.
  29. Silva, Eliana; Tavares, Dionísia; Teixeira, Ana; Freire, Teresa. "Emotion regulation processes, affective experiences and self-esteem in the daily life of Portuguese adolescents: A case study". Paper presented in 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (Braga, Portugal), 2015.
    10.1109/icams.2010.5553216
  30. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa. "Regulação emocional e autoestima na vida diária de adolescentes: O papel mediador do afeto [Emotion regulation and self-esteem in the daily life of adolescents: The mediator role of affect]". Paper presented in VI Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (VI Seminar of Research in Psychology; Braga, Portugal), 2015.
  31. Silva, Eliana; Tavares, Dionísia; Teixeira, Ana; Freire, Teresa. "Regulação emocional na vida diária de um adolescente e seus pais: Um estudo de caso [Emotion regulation in the daily life of an adolescent and their parents: A case study]". Paper presented in V Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (V Seminar of Research in Psychology; Braga, Portugal), 2014.
  32. Freire, Teresa; Teixeira, Ana; Silva, Eliana; Mourão, Joana. "Positive cognitive behavior therapy in adolescence: A case study". Paper presented in III World Congress of Positive Psychology (Los Angeles, United States of America), 2013.
  33. Silva, Eliana; Gonçalves, Sónia; Machado, Bárbara C.; Lima, Vânia. "The influence of romantic attachment and intimate partner violence on nonsuicidal self-injury among college students". Paper presented in 3rd European Congress of Society for Psychotherapy Research (Porto, Portugal), 2012.
  34. Silva, Eliana; Gonçalves, Sónia; Machado, Bárbara C.; Lima, Vânia. "Qualidade das relações íntimas e ferimentos autoinfligidos em estudantes universitários [Intimate relationships and nonsuicidal self-injury behaviors in college students]". Paper presented in III Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (III Seminar of Research in Psychology, Braga, Portugal), 2012.
  35. Silva, Eliana; Gonçalves, Sónia; Machado, Bárbara César; Lima, Vânia Sousa. "The Influence of Romantic Attachment and Intimate Partner Violence on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavior among College Students". Paper presented in 3rd Joint Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research European and UK Chapters, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Silva, Eliana; Paulo Pinto; Reis, Luis Paulo. "Communicating With Children With Cancer: Development Of A Chatbot-Based Educational Support Tool". Journal Of Cancer Education (2025):
    Accepted
  2. Silva, Eliana; Ricardo Lopes; Luís Paulo Reis. "CogniChallenge: Multiplayer serious games’ platform for cognitive and psychosocial rehabilitation (SCImago: Q2)". International Journal of Serious Games 10 4 (2023): 3-16.
    Published
  3. Pedro Gomes; Giada Pietrabissa; Eunice R. Silva; João Pinho da Silva; Paula Mena Matos; Maria Emília Costa; Vanessa Bertuzzi; et al. "Family Adjustment to Hereditary Cancer Syndromes: A Systematic Review. Open access (SCImago: Q2)". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IF: 4.614) 19 3 (2022): 1-21.
    Open access • Published
  4. Eliana Silva; Pedro Gomes; Paula Mena Matos; Eunice R. Silva; João Pinho da Silva; Catarina Brandão; Fernando Castro; Maria Carolina Neves; Célia M. D. Sales. "I have always lived with the disease in the family: Family adaptation to hereditary cancer-risk.". BMC Family Practice (IF: 2.497, Q1) (2022):
    Open access • Published
  5. Pedro Gomes; Paula Mena Matos; Eunice R. Silva; João Pinho da Silva; Eliana Silva; Célia M. D. Sales. "Distress facing increased genetic risk of cancer: The role of social support and emotional suppression". Patient Education and Counseling (IF: 3.467, Q2) (2022):
    Published
  6. Alexandra Oliveira; Silva, Eliana; Joyce Aguiar; Brígida Mónica Faria; Luís Paulo Reis; Henrique Lopes Cardoso; Joaquim Gonçalves; et al. "Biometrics and quality of life of lymphoma patients: A longitudinal mixed-model approach. (SCImago: Q2)". Expert Systems (IF: 2.812, Q2) (2021):
    Published
  7. Silva, Eliana; Aguiar, Joyce; Reis, Luís Paulo; Sá, Jorge Oliveira e; Gonçalves, Joaquim; Carvalho, Victor. "Stress among Portuguese Medical Students: the EuStress Solution (SCImago: Q1)". Journal of Medical Systems (IF: 4.460, Q1) 44 2 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10916-019-1520-1.
    Published • 10.1007/s10916-019-1520-1
  8. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa; Faria, Susana. "Concurrent and Lagged Relations between Emotion Regulation and Affect in Adolescents' Daily Life". The Spanish Journal of Psychology (IF: 1.526) 21 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2018.61.
    Published • 10.1017/sjp.2018.61
  9. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa; Faria, Susana. "The Emotion Regulation Strategies of Adolescents and their Parents: An Experience Sampling Study (SCImago: Q2)". Journal of Child and Family Studies 27 6 (2018): 1774-1785. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1015-6.
    Published • 10.1007/s10826-018-1015-6
  10. Silva, Eliana; Machado, Bárbara C.; Moreira, Célia S.; Ramalho, Sofia; Gonçalves, Sónia. "Romantic and nonsuicidal self-injury among college students: The mediating role of emotion regulation (SCImago: Q1)". Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (IF: 3.28, Q1) 50 (2017): 36-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2017.04.001.
    Published • 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.04.001
  11. Teixeira, Ana; Silva, Eliana; Tavares, Dionísia; Freire, Teresa. "Portuguese validation of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA): Relations with self-esteem and life satisfaction (SCImago: Q1)". Child Indicators Research (IF: 2.420, Q1) 8 3 (2015): 605-621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-014-9266-2.
    Published • 10.1007/s12187-014-9266-2
  12. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa. "Programas de mentoria e promoção do desenvolvimento positivo de adolescentes [Mentoring programs and the promotion of positive youth development] (SCImago: Q4)". Revista Portuguesa de Educação (Q4) 27 1 (2014): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.21814/rpe.4302.
    Published • 10.21814/rpe.4302
  13. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa. "Regulação emocional em adolescentes e seus pais: Da psicopatologia ao funcionamento ótimo [Emotion regulation in adolescents and their parents: From psychopathology to optimal functioning] (SCImago: Q4)". Análise Psicológica (IF: 0.35, Q4) 32 2 (2014): 187-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.14417/ap.746.
    Published • 10.14417/ap.746
  14. Freire, Teresa; Teixeira, Ana; Silva, Eliana; Matias, Gabriela. "Interventions for youth depression: From symptom reduction to well-being and optimal functioning". Journal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues 6 2 (2014): 9-19.
    Published • 10.5460/jbhsi.v6.2.50816
  15. Silva, Eliana; Freire, Teresa. "Mentoring programs and promotion of positive youth development". (2014): https://revistas.rcaap.pt/rpe/article/view/4302.
  16. Gonçalves, Sónia; Martins, C.; Rosendo, Ana Paula; Machado, Bárbara Freire Brito César; Silva, Eliana Marisa Araújo; Gonçalves, Sónia Ferreira; Martins, Carla; Machado, Bárbara César; Silva, Eliana. "Self-injurious behavior in portuguese adolescents". (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/52601.
Preprint
  1. Silva, Eliana; Pedro Gomes; Paula Matos; Eunice R. Silva; João Silva; Catarina Brandão; Fernando Castro; Célia M. D. Sales. ""How can healthcare respond to the psychosocial needs and preferences of individuals with hereditary cancer syndromes? A qualitative study."". 2022.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Silva, Eliana. "Regulação emocional na vida diária de adolescentes e seus pais: Ligações à psicopatologia e ao funcionamento ótimo [Emotion regulation in the daily life of adolescents and their parents: Links to psychopathology and optimal functioning] - Unanimously approved, mention of Very Good". PhD, Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, 2017.
  2. Silva, Eliana. "Relações íntimas, regulação emocional e ferimentos autoinfligidos em estudantes universitários [Intimate relationships, emotion regulation and nonsuicidal self-injury in college students] - 18 values". Master, Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, 2012.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/08/27 Emotion Regulation Through Play: A Serious Game for Preschool Children IEEE EEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2025/08/27 The Co-Design process behind CogniSpace: A Serious Game for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabiliation IEEE EEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025
(Portugal)
2025/08/27 Emotion Odyssey: Promoting Emotion Regulation Skills in Families through a Serious Game IEEE EEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2025/06/17 A usabilidade de um jogo sério para promover o bem-estar em pessoas mais velhas [The usability of a serious game to promote well-being in older people] IV Simpósio Internacional de Inovação, Tecnologias e Jogos em Saúde
2025/05 Emotion Odyssey: Um jogo sério multijogador para promoção de competências emocionais em adolescentes e pais [Emotion Odyssey: A serious multiplayer game for promoting emotional skills in adolescents and parents] XII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [12th National Symposium on Psychological Research]
2025/05 A Serious Game for Enhancing Well-Being in Older Adults Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto – IJUP (17ª Edição) [U.Porto Young Research Meeting - IJUP (17th Edition)]
2024/09 Comunicação entre Pais-Filhos no Contexto do Cancro Pediátrico: Proposta de um Chatbot para Pais [Parent-Child Communication in the Context of Pediatric Cancer: Proposal for a Chatbot for Parents] 7.ª edição do Encontro Nacional de Jovens Investigadores em Oncologia
Liga Portuguesa contra o Cancro (Portugal)
2024/08/08 VGC AI Competition. IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG)
(Milan, Italy)
2024/08/06 Co-Design of a Serious Game to Promote Emotion Regulation Strategies in Parents. IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG)
(Milan, Italy)
2024/08/06 Co-Development of a Serious Game for Social Skills Training for patients with Acquired Brain Injury. IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG)
(Milan, Italy)
2024/02 CogniSpace: Innovative Serious Games Designed for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation HEALTHINF2025 - 18th International Conference on Health Informatics and BIOSTEC2025 - 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
(Portugal)
2022/09 Estudos Qualitativos: A perceção das pessoas com risco genético de cancro, Sessão de Encerramento do Projeto TOGETHER [Qualitative Studies: The perception of people at genetic risk of cancer, Closing Session of the TOGETHER Project] Closing Session of the TOGETHER Project, Portuguese Institute of Oncology
(Porto, Portugal)
2021/10/30 Apps e Jogos no âmbito da Saúde Mental [Apps and games in mental health] - Invited speaker XXVII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Psicologia [National Meeting of Psychology Students]
Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Psicologia [National Association of Psychology Students] (Virtual Conference)
2021/10/09 Adaptação familiar ao risco genético de cancro: Um estudo qualitativo [Family adjustment to genetic cancer risk: A qualitative study] 2º Congresso de Psico-Oncologia da Liga Portuguesa contra o Cancro [2nd ongress of Psycho-Oncology of the Portuguese Cancer League]
LIGA PORTUGUESA CONTRA O CANCRO [Portuguese Cancer League] (Online, Portugal)
2021/09/17 A experiência com os cuidados de saúde, necessidades e preferências das pessoas com risco genético de cancro [The healthcare experience, needs and preferences of people with genetic cancer risk] - Invited speaker 1º Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de Psico-Oncologia [1st Luso-Brazilian Congress of Psycho- Oncology]
Academia Portuguesa de Psico-Oncologia (Portuguese Academy of Psycho-Oncology) and Sociedade Brasileira de Psico-Oncologia (Brazilian Society of Psycho-Oncology) (Online)
2021/05/27 Psychosocial needs and preferences of individuals with hereditary cancer syndromes: Practice implications for the healthcare responsiveness 21st International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC21)
(Virtual Conference)
2019/09/21 Novas metodologias na avaliação da qualidade de vida dos doentes [New methodologies for assessing patients' quality of life] - Invited Speaker Novas perspetivas no tratamento das doenças malignas do sangue [New perspectives in the treatment of malignant blood diseases]
Associação Portuguesa de Leucemias e Linfomas [Portuguese association of leukemias and lymphomas] (Porto, Portugal)
2019/06/28 Sistema de Informação para Monitorização da Qualidade de Vida de Pessoas com Doença Oncológica [Information system for monitoring quality of life in cancer patients] X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [X National Symposium of Research in Psychology]
Portuguese Association of Psychology (Madeira, Portugal)
2019/06/27 Qualidade de vida relacionada com a saúde: Desafios Conceptuais e Metodológicos [Health-related quality of life: Conceptual and methodological challenges] - Invited Speaker Evento de encerramento do projeto Qvida+ “Preparar o futuro: Transformação digital aplicada à saúde” [Closing event of Qvida+ Research Project - Preparing the future: Digital transformation applied to health]
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/04/17 An Approach to Assess Quality of Life through Biometric Monitoring in Cancer Patients WorldCIST’19 – 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
(La Toja, Spain)
2019/04/17 Information System for Monitoring and Assessing Stress among Medical Students WorldCIST’19 – 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
(La Toja, Spain)
2018/09/13 Avaliação de Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio à Decisão Clínica [Evaluation of Quality of Life for Clinical Decision Support] 4º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos (4th Congress of Order of Portuguese Psychologists)
Order of Portuguese Psychologists (Braga, Portugal)
2018/06/13 Detection of sleep disturbances for road prevention 2018 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
Associação Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação [Iberian Association of Systems and Technologies of Information]; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Caceres, Spain)
2018 "Avaliação de Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio à Decisão Clínica [Quality of life continuous estimation for clinical decision support] 4º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses [4th Congress of Order of Portuguese Psychologists]
Fórum Braga (Braga)
2016/07/01 Estratégias de regulação emocional e afeto em adolescentes: Importância dos contextos de vida diária [Emotion regulation strategies and affect of adolescents: The importance of daily life contexts] IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [IX National Symposium of Psychology]
Portuguese Association of Psychology (Faro, Portugal)
2013/06 Estratégias de regulação emocional, autoestima, satisfação com a vida e bem-estar psicológico: Sua relação com o funcionamento ótimo de adolescentes [Emotion regulation strategies and affect of adolescents: The importance of daily life contexts] VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [8th National Symposium of Psychology]
Portuguese Association of Psychology (Aveiro, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/09 - Current Scrolling with Purpose: A Serious Game for Adolescents about Social Media Use and Mental Health
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/09 - Current A serious game for older adults' well-being: An Innovative Approach
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/09 - Current Promoting Emotion Regulation Skills: Development of a Serious Game for Adolescents
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/09 - Current Serious Games with an Intelligent Planner: An Innovative Approach to Cognitive Rehabilitation
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/09 - Current Emotions in the Family: Co-creating a serious game to train emotion regulation skills
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/09 - Current A Serious Game for Cognitive and Socioemotional Skill Development in School-Age Children
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/09 - Current Intelligent Agents in Competitive Serious Games: Applications in Cognitive Rehabilitation
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - Current GameOlder: Um Jogo Sério para Promoção de Competências de Regulação Emocional em Idosos [A Serious Game for Promoting Emotional Regulation Skills in Older Adults]
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/06 - Current Desenvolvimento de um Jogo Sério para promover o Bem-Estar em Idosos [Development of a Serious Game to Promote Well-Being in Older Adults]
Co-supervisor
 PhD (PhD)
Universidade Lusíada Porto Centro de Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Oncology Patients: Co-Design of a ChatBot
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Artificial Intelligence Applications: A ChatBot as a support tool for teenagers and young adults with cancer
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/09 Emotions in the classroom: A Serious Game for Training Elementary School Teachers’ Emotional Skills
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/09 NeuroShop: An augmented reality serious game for people with Acquired Brain Injury
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/07/07 - 2025/07/07 Emotions at School: Developing a Serious Game for School-Aged Children
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/07 A Serious Game for Older Adults’ Well-Being: Design, Development, and Usability Evaluation
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/07 Emotion Rush: A Serious Game to Promote Emotion Regulation in Adolescents in Residential Care
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/07 Emotions at School: Developing a Serious Game for School-Aged Children
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/06 Competitive Serious Games as a Tool for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Supervisor
 Research Project - Integrative Project Course (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/06 A Serious Game for Training Emotion Regulation Skills in Preschool Children
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/10/15 - 2025/01/17 Social and emotional skills after acquired brain injury: Design and Development of Serious Games.
Supervisor
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2024/10/15 - 2025/01/17 Design and Development of Collaborative Serious Games for Cognitive Rehabilitation
Supervisor
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2024/05 - 2025 Psicopatologia e Desenvolvimento Positivo de Adolescentes: O Papel da Regulação Emocional Parental [Psychopathology and Positive Development in Adolescents: The Role of Parental Emotional Regulation]
Co-supervisor
 Master in Psychology (Master)
2023/09 - 2024/09/17 Challenges in Parent-Child Communication in Pediatric Cancer: Proposal for a Chat-Bot as a Support Tool
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/09/16 Emotions in the Family: Co-Creation of a Serious Game for Training Emotional Regulation Skills
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/09/16 Social Skills Training in Acquired Brain Injury: Development of a Serious Game
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/09/16 Co-creation of Multiplayer Serious Games: An Innovative Strategy for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/07/15 Promoting Emotional Regulation Strategies in Parents: Participatory Development of a Serious Game
Supervisor
 Master (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2021/03 Qvida+: Development of a Clinical Decision Support System
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2021/03 Emotion Regulation: Development of a serious game for adolescents
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2021/02 Serious Games for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/09/13 - 2022/09/13 Evento de encerramento do projeto TOGETHER - Connecting people and systems to support an effective psychosocial adjustment to genetic testing in the context of inherited cancer risk [Closing event of TOGETHER Research project] (2022/09/13 - 2022/09/13)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2022/05/21 - 2022/07/02 PLAY THE ODDS - GRUPO DE TRABALHO DE LITERACIA EM SAÚDE PARA A ADAPTAÇÃO PSICOLÓGICA AO RISCO DE CANCRO HEREDITÁRIO [PLAY THE ODDS - HEALTH LITERACY WORKING GROUP FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT TO HEREDITARY CANCER RISK] (2022/05/21 - 2022/07/02)
Workshop
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2019/06/27 - 2019/06/27 Workshop "Closing event of Qvida+ Research Project: Preparing the future: Digital transformation applied to health" (2019/06/27 - 2019/06/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/04/16 - 2019/04/19 Workshop "1st Health Technology Innovation: Emerging Trends and Future Challenges" (2019/04/16 - 2019/04/19)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 WorldCIST'19 - 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Spain

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/05 - Current Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto (IJUP) [U.Porto Young Researchers Meeting (IJUP)]
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2024/05 - Current International Congress on Psychological Interventions: Challenges and Potential of Technology in Psychological Intervention
Congress
Universidade Lusíada Porto, Portugal
2025/08/26 - 2025/08/29 IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2025/08/06 - 2025/08/08 13th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, IEEE SeGAH 2025
Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
2025/05/28 - 2025/05/30 XII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [12th National Symposium on Psychological Research]
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2025/05/21 - 2025/05/21 XI Seminário de Psicologia da Educação – Construir Escolas Seguras para Percursos de Bem-Estar e Sucesso [11th Seminar on Educational Psychology – Building Safe Schools for Well-Being and Success] - Directorate-General for Education and Euroguidance Portugal, in collaboration with the Portuguese Psychologists Association
2025/05/07 - 2025/05/09 Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto (IJUP) [U.Porto Young Researchers Meeting (IJUP)]
Congress
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2025/02/20 - 2025/02/22 HEALTHINF2025 - 18th International Conference on Health Informatics and BIOSTEC 2025 - International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
Conference
Instituto Para Os Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação Controlo e Comunicação, Portugal
2025/01/16 - 2025/01/16 Webinar: Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Research
Other
 Webinar
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/10/22 - 2024/10/24 BIN@Porto 2024: Innovation for Resilience
Conference
 BIN@Porto 2024: Innovation for Resilience
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

UPTEC Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia da Asprela, Portugal
2024/10/10 - 2024/10/10 Online Course “Introductory virtual course Systematics Reviews of the literature”,
Other
 Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde
2024/09/25 - 2024/09/27 XIII Congresso Ibero-Americano de Psicologia e 6º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses [13th Ibero-American Congress of Psychology and 6th Congress of the Portuguese Psychologists Association]
Congress
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal
2024/08/05 - 2024/08/08 IEEE Conference on Games 2024
Conference
 IEEE Conference on Games 2024
2024/07/03 - 2024/07/05 Encontro Ciência 2024 – Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal [Encontro Ciência 2024 - Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal].
Conference
 Centro de Congressos da Alfândega do Porto
2024/04/08 - 2024/04/24 Online Course “Introducción al uso de datos en la investigación” [“Introduction to the use of data in research”] 50 hours
Other
 Miriadax
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
2024/04/11 - 2024/04/11 Curso Online “Saúde integral dos adolescentes” ["Comprehensive adolescent health” online course]
Other
 Campus Virtual de Saúde Pública, Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde
2023/10/27 - 2023/10/27 Ética e Inteligência Artificial - Novas perspetivas para o Ensino e para a Investigação [Ethics and Artificial Intelligence - New Perspectives for Teaching and Research]
Conference
 Ética e Inteligência Artificial - Novas perspetivas para o Ensino e para a Investigação [Ethics and Artificial Intelligence - New Perspectives for Teaching and Research]
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/10/27 - 2023/10/27 27/10/2023: Jornadas da Comissão de Ética da Universidade do Porto “Ética e Inteligência Artificial – Novas perspetivas para o Ensino e para a Investigação” [University of Porto Ethics Committee Conference “Ethics and Artificial Intelligence - New Perspectives for Teaching and Research”]
Conference
 Salão Nobre da Reitoria da U.Porto, Porto, Portugal
2023/10/18 - 2023/10/20 The Forum on Digital Ethics in Research
Conference
 Digital Ethics in Research
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/10/19 - 2023/10/19 Spotlight on Education: Conversations about Chat GPT
Conference
 Spotlight on Education: Conversations about Chat GPT
2023/03/25 - 2023/03/25 ChatGPT: E agora? [ChatGPT: Now what?]. Rotaract Club Gondomar
Conference
2023/03/17 - 2023/03/17 Brincar: O impacto das tecnologias no desenvolvimento de crianças & jovens [Play: The impact of technology on the development of children & young people]. Colégio Luso-Francês, Porto
Conference
 Brincar: O impacto das tecnologias no desenvolvimento de crianças & jovens [Play: The impact of technology on the development of children & young people]
2021/12/15 - 2021/12/15 Conheça o Programa Europeu para as Doenças Raras: Oportunidades e Desafios [Meet the European Joint Program Rare Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges]
Seminar
 Conheça o Programa Europeu para as Doenças Raras: Oportunidades e Desafios [Meet the European Joint Program Rare Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges]
2021/10/07 - 2021/10/09 2º Congresso de Psico-Oncologia da Liga Portuguesa contra o Cancro [2nd Psycho-Oncology Congress of the Portuguese League Against Cancer]
Congress
Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro, Portugal
2021/09/17 - 2021/09/18 1º Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de Psico-Oncologia [1st Luso-Brazilian Congress of Psycho- Oncology]
2021/07/05 - 2021/07/09 EMERGENCE Digital Media Science Communication Hackathon
Other
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/05/03 - 2021/05/27 21st International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC21)
Conference
 Realising the true value of Integrated care
International Foundation for Integrated Care, Netherlands
2021/04/28 - 2021/04/28 International Festival of Science and Arts: Problematic Use of the Internet Raising the Public Voice
Festival
 International Festival of Science and Arts: Problematic Use of the Internet Raising the Public Voice
2021/03/24 - 2021/03/24 Workshop EU4Health Programme 2021 - potential solutions for a healthier European Union
Workshop
 Workshop EU4Health Programme 2021 - potential solutions for a healthier European Union
2021/02/11 - 2021/02/11 ERN GENTURIS (European Reference Network on Genetic Tumour Risk Syndromes) 5-year anniversary conference
Conference
 ERN GENTURIS 5-year anniversary conference
2020/10/12 - 2020/10/21 Online Course from Miríadax "Introducción a la Bioética"
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax "Introducción a la Bioética"
Universitas Telefónica, Spain
2019/09/21 - 2019/09/21 Encontro anual da APLL [Annual Meeting of Portuguese Leukemia and Lymphoma Association]
Meeting
 Encontro anual da APLL [Annual Meeting of Portuguese Leukemia and Lymphoma Association]
Portuguese Association of Leukemias and Lymphomas , Portugal
2019/07/04 - 2019/07/04 TECH@PORTUGAL Porto, Portugal
Exhibition
 TECH@PORTUGAL
National Agency of Innovation, Portugal
2019/06/27 - 2019/06/27 Evento de encerramento do projeto Qvida+ [Closing event of Qvida+ Research Project] Porto, Portugal
Workshop
 Evento de encerramento do projeto Qvida+ [Closing event of Qvida+ Research Project]
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/05/29 - 2019/05/29 Evento de encerramento do projeto Eustress [Closing event of Eustress Research Project] Barcelos, Portugal
Workshop
 Evento de encerramento do projeto Eustress [Closing event of Eustress Research Project]
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
2019/03/15 - 2019/05/06 Formação Inicial Psicólogo Júnior (Junior Psychologist Initial Training)
Seminar
 Formação Inicial Psicólogo Júnior (Junior Psychologist Initial Training)
Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, Portugal
2019/04/16 - 2019/04/19 WorldCIST19 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies La Toja, Spain
Conference
 WorldCIST19 7th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, La Toja, Spain
2019/02/28 - 2019/03/07 Online Course from Miríadax La ética de la investigación científica [Ethics in university research]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax La ética de la investigación científica [Ethics in university research]
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
2019/02/24 - 2019/02/28 Online Course from Miríadax Habilidades para el Empleo. ¡Marca la diferencia en tu carrera profesional! (6.ªEdición) [Skills for employment. Make a difference in your professional career]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax Habilidades para el Empleo. ¡Marca la diferencia en tu carrera profesional!¿ (6.ªEdición) [Skills for employment. Make a difference in your professional career]
Universitas Telefónica, Spain
2018/12/09 - 2018/12/21 Online Course from Miríadax Liderazgo e Inteligencia Emocional (2.ª edición) [Leadership and Emotional Intelligence]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax Liderazgo e Inteligencia Emocional (2.ª edición) [Leadership and Emotional Intelligence]
MCA Business & Postgraduate School, United States
2018/08/01 - 2018/09/20 Online Course from Miríadax Estilo para la redacción y corrección científica (norma APA) [Scientific writing and correction (APA style)]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax Estilo para la redacción y corrección científica (norma APA) [Scientific writing and correction (APA style)]
MCA Business & Postgraduate School, United States
2018/09/12 - 2018/09/15 4º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos [4th Congress of Order of Portuguese Psychologists] Braga, Portugal
Congress
 4º Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos (4th Congress of Order of Portuguese Psychologists)
Forum Braga, Portugal
2018/04/29 - 2018/07/05 Online Course from Miríadax “Ética en la investigación universitaria (5.ª edición)” [Ethics in academic research]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax “Ética en la investigación universitaria (5.ª edición)” [Ethics in academic research]
Universidad del País Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
2018/04/22 - 2018/06/01 Online Course from Miríadax “Neuro Oratoria” [Neuro-oratory]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax “Neuro Oratoria” [Neuro-oratory]
MCA Business & Postgraduate School, United States
2017/10/04 - 2017/12/11 Online Course from Miríadax El abordaje multidisciplinar de las demencias (4.ª edición) [Multidisciplinary approach to dementia]
Other
 Online Course from Miríadax El abordaje multidisciplinar de las demencias (4.ª edición) [Multidisciplinary approach to dementia]
Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
2016/11/05 - 2016/11/05 Demências para Cuidados de Saúde Primários [Dementias for Primary Health Care]
Seminar
 Demências para Cuidados de Saúde Primários [Dementias for Primary Health Care]
Hospital de Braga, Portugal
2016/10/15 - 2016/10/15 Luto: Saúde ou Doença? [Mourning: Health or Disease] Braga, Portugal
Meeting
 Luto: Saúde ou Doença? [Mourning: Health or Disease]
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Educação, Portugal
2016/06/30 - 2016/07/02 IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [IX National Symposium of Research in Psychology] Algarve, Portugal
Symposium
 IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia (IX National Symposium of Research in Psychology)
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2016/05/27 - 2016/05/27 VII Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia [VII Seminar of Research in Psychology] Braga, Portugal
Seminar
 VII Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (VII Seminar of Research in Psychology), Braga, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/04/04 - 2016/04/08 Training School: Intergenerational Solidarity in a Diverse World of the Cost Action 1311 Porto, Portugal
Other
 Training School: Intergenerational Solidarity in a Diverse World of the Cost Action 1311
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2016/03/11 - 2016/03/12 II Congresso Internacional do Núcleo de Doenças de Comportamento Alimentar [II International Congress of Eating Disorders Group] Braga, Portugal
Congress
 II Congresso Internacional do Núcleo de Doenças de Comportamento Alimentar (II International Congress of Eating Disorders Group)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/02/19 - 2016/02/19 Workshop “Alimentação e alterações na fala da criança”[Eating and speech disorders] Braga, Portugal
Workshop
 Workshop “Alimentação e alterações na fala da criança”[Eating and speech disorders]
Private Hospital of Braga, Portugal
2015/12/04 - 2015/12/04 Simpósio Cuidar da pessoa idosa: Dos textos aos contextos [Symposium Caring for the elderly: From texts to contexts] Braga, Portugal
Symposium
 Simpósio Cuidar da pessoa idosa: Dos textos aos contextos (Symposium Caring for the elderly: From texts to contexts)
Hospital de Braga, Portugal
2015/09/08 - 2015/09/12 17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology Braga, Portugal
Conference
 7th European Conference on Developmental Psychology
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015/05/29 - 2015/05/29 VI Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (VI Seminar of Research in Psychology) Braga, Portugal
Seminar
 VI Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia (VI Seminar of Research in Psychology)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014/12/11 - 2014/12/11 1ª Conferência Inovação Pedagógica no ensino superior [1st Conference Pedagogic innovation in higher education] Braga, Portugal
Conference
 1ª Conferência Inovação Pedagógica no ensino superior (1st Conference Pedagogic innovation in higher education)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Educação, Portugal
2014/05/30 - 2014/05/30 V Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia [V Seminar of Research in Psychology] Braga, Portugal
Seminar
 V Seminário de Investigação em Psicologia [V Seminar of Research in Psychology]
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2013/10/07 - 2013/12/09 Curso de Conversação de Inglês [English course (conversation)]
Other
 Curso de Conversação de Inglês [English course (conversation)]
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Portugal
2013/10/17 - 2013/10/18 Overdispersion and Quasi-Likelihood for Discrete Data
Workshop
 Overdispersion and Quasi-Likelihood for Discrete Data
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
2013/06/20 - 2013/06/22 VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [VIII National Symposium of Research in Psychology] Aveiro, Portugal
Symposium
 VIII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia (VIII National Symposium of Research in Psychology)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2013/05/27 - 2013/05/29 Modelos Estatísticos para dados longitudinais [Statistical models for longitudinal data]
Workshop
 Modelos Estatísticos para dados longitudinais [Statistical models for longitudinal data]
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
2013/05/02 - 2013/05/03 Workshop Experience Sampling Method in Psychopathology
Workshop
 Workshop Experience Sampling Method in Psychopathology
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Netherlands
2013/03/04 - 2013/03/08 Medicina Legal Começos de vida [Basic course of Legal Medicine]
Seminar
 Medicina Legal Começos de vida [Basic course of Legal Medicine]
Universidade do Minho Escola de Direito, Portugal
2011/11/25 - 2011/11/25 I Congresso Internacional sobre Stalking, Perfis, Contextos e Respostas [Ist International Conference about Stalking] Braga, Portugal
Congress
 I Congresso Internacional sobre Stalking, Perfis, Contextos e Respostas (Ist International Conference about Stalking)
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Consensual Qualitative Research - Training
Other
 Consensual Qualitative Research - Training
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2010/12/18 - 2010/12/18 Criança e o divórcio [Child and divorce] Braga, Portugal
Seminar
 Criança e o divórcio (Child and divorce)
Escola de Lamaçães, Portugal
2010/02/04 - 2010/02/06 VII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [VII National Symposium of Research in Psychology]
Symposium
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2008/11/07 - 2008/11/08 II Conferência em Psicologia da Educação [2nd Conference in Educational Psychology] Barcelos, Portugal
Conference
 II Conferência em Psicologia da Educação (2nd Conference in Educational Psychology)
Câmara Municipal de Barcelos, Portugal
2007 - 2008 Competências para a aprendizagem do 1º ano [Skills for 1st year learning]
Other
 Competências para a aprendizagem do 1º ano [Skills for 1st year learning]
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2005/02/12 - 2005/02/12 Juventude, trajetos, transições e expetativas [Youth, paths, transitions and expectations] Barcelos, Portugal
Conference
 Juventude, trajetos, transições e expetativas (Youth, paths, transitions and expectations)
Câmara Municipal de Barcelos, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/07/15 A serious game for training emotion regulation skills in preschool children
Supervisor
 Catarina Gonçalves (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/07/15 A serious game for older'adults well-being: design, development, and usability evaluation
Supervisor
 Marcos Pinto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025/07/07 Emotion Rush: A Serious Game to Promote Emotion Regulation in Adolescents in Residential Care
Supervisor
 Pedro Gomes (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09/17 Desafios na Comunicação Pais-Filhos no Cancro Pediátrico: Proposta de um ChatBot como Ferramenta de Apoio [Challenges in Parent-Child Communication in Paediatric Cancer: Proposal for a ChatBot as a Support Tool]
Supervisor
 Paulo Pinto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09/16 Emotions in the Family: Co-Creation of a Serious Game for Training Emotion Regulation Skills
Supervisor
 João Pedro Rodrigues (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09/16 Treino de Competências Sociais e Emocionais para Pacientes com Lesão Cerebral Adquirida: Desenvolvimento de um Jogo Sério [Social and Emotional Skills Training for Patients with Acquired Brain Injury: Development of a Serious Game]
Supervisor
 Bernardo Ferreira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/09/16 Co-creation of Multiplayer Serious Games: An Innovative Strategy for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Supervisor
 Carolina Figueira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2024/07/15 Promoting Emotional Regulation Strategies in Parents: Participatory Development of a Serious Game
Supervisor
 Mónica Moura Pereira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/12/06 Machine Learning for Game Balance: Applications in Serious Games for Rehabilitation. PHD - Monitoring Comission (1st year)
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rita Novais (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/11/24 Adaptação psicológica ao risco de cancro genético: Revisão sistemática dos processos relacionais no seio da família [Psychological adjustment to genetic cancer risk: A systematic review of relational processes within the family]
(Thesis) Arguer
 Marisa Martins Alves (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2021/03/18 Qvida+: Development of a Clinical Decision Support System
Supervisor
 Daniela João (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/03/17 Emotion Regulation: Development of a serious game for adolescents
Supervisor
 Pedro França (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/02/17 Serious Games for Cognitive and Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Supervisor
 Ricardo Rocha (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/06 - Current Qualitative Research in health
2025/02 - Current Health & Social Care in the Community
2024/12 - Current Psycho-Oncology
2024/07 - Current Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development (JIPD)
2024/07 - Current Acta Psychologica
2024/06 - Current Current Psychology
2024/03 - Current Editor Assigned of Frontiers in Psychology
2024/02/05 - Current Personalized Medicine
2023/12 - Current Simulation & Gaming
2023/08 - Current International Journal of Serious Games
2023/05/19 - Current Frontiers in Psychology
2022/08 - Current BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Ltd
2022/07 - Current Frontiers in Psychiatry Frontiers Media S.A.
2020/04 - Current Family, Systems, & Health American Psychological Association on behalf of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (United States)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/10 - Current Serious Game Society Member
2019/06 - Current Ordem dos Psicólogos (Order of Portuguese Psychologists) Full Member
2017/10/24 - Current LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (LIACC), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto Post-Doctoral Researcher
2020/12/15 - 2022/06/30 Center for Psychology at University of Porto Researcher
2017/10/24 - 2019/06/29 ALGORITMI Center, School of Engineering, University of Minho Post-Doctoral Researcher
2018/04 - 2019/06 Ordem dos Psicólogos [Order of Portuguese Psychologists] Junior Psychologist
2009/09 - 2017/12 Centro de Investigação em Psicologia [Psychology Research Center] Student (Master and PhD)
2012/09 - 2017/03 Grupo de Investigação para o Funcionamento Ótimo [GIFOp; Research Group on Optimal Functioning] PhD student
2012/09 - 2014 Portuguese Society for Positive Psychology Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2025 - 2025 IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2025 Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon
2025 - 2025 The 14th Games and Learning Alliance Conference - GALA 2025 Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2025 - 2025 ECGBL 2025 19th European Conference on Games Based Learning Nord University, Levanger, Norway
2024/11 - 2024/11 The 13th Games and Learning Alliance Conference - GALA 2024 Berlin School of Economics and Law (Business Faculty), Germany
2024/08 - 2024/08 IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) 2024 Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/05/08 - 2024/05/08 Emotional Regulation in Adolescents: From Research to Intervention (Doutoramento) Universidade Lusíada Porto Centro de Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2018/04/26 - 2018/04/26 Positive Development: Research and practice Master (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2019/09/23 Interview title "Smartbands can help on clinical decision in cancer patients" dnoticias.pt

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/05/08 - 2025/05/08 Moderator of Poster Session on Psychology and Educational Sciences 2025 - U.Porto Young Researchers Meeting – IJUP 2025 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2025 Best Poster Presentation in Engineering - "Co-Designing a Serious Game to Promote Emotional Skills in Adolescents in Residential Care" - Paper presented in U.Porto Young ResearchMeeting - IJUP (17th Edition)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013 Best Master Student Award 2011/2012
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2011 School Achievement Award (2009/2010)
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Psicologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 For publishing open access with Elsevier between 2020-2022! 1 of your articles was linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, helping to tackle some of the world's greatest challenges.
Elsevier Inc, United States
2022 Presentation of work at the Rectory of the University of Porto as part of participation in the EMERGENCE Digital Media Science Communication Hackathon, Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto
2013 PhD Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2009 Integration into Research Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal