Hi, my name is

Sofia Pelica

I am a Behavioral
Researcher

Summary
Sofia Pelica studies thinking and feeling processes in social situations. As a Doctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, she investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying behaviours that impact the transmission of communicable diseases. Her previous research focused on adaptive memory and pathogen disgust during her MSc at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. Her passion for psychological methods, open science practices, and cross-cultural research led her to become a member of the Junior Researcher Programme — a hub for international collaborative research projects in psychology and health policy partnered with Columbia University and the University of Cambridge.
Education
PhD (Promovenda) in Social Psychology: Human Behaviour and Infectious Diseases
May 2023 - Present | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Supervisor: Professor Joshua Tybur
Co-Supervisor: Professor Catherine Molho

MSc in Social and Organizational Psychology
September 2020 – December 2022 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Grade: 19 out of 20. Highest-ranked student in this program's graduating class. Ranked first at the entrance of this program in 2020.
Research-based Dissertation (Graded 20 out of 2): Adaptive Memory in Contamination Contexts: Emotionality as a Proximate Mechanism. This research required Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electrodermal activity (EDA) measures. The analysis was conducted autonomously using R and Python (see Appendices C and D).
Supervisor: Professor Margarida Garrido
Co-Supervisor: Professor Magda Saraiva

BSc in Psychology
September 2017 – June 2020 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Graded 17 out of 20. Equivalent to First-Class Honours in the United Kingdom grading system.

Awards & Honors
Awarded Best Student by the Portuguese Government (DGES).
Ranked in the top 0.01% of more than 14,000 students at Iscte for the 2021/2022 academic year (grade 19.7 out of 20).

Merit Scholarship: Top-Ranked BSc Psychology Student, Iscte, 2020.
Awarded for achieving the highest grade among BSc Psychology students applying to the MSc program.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Publications & Preprints
* indicates cross-country project

Communicable disease prevention and non-pharmaceutical interventions

1*. Pelica, S., Molho, C., ... & Tybur, J.M. (in preparation). Global variation in non-pharmaceutical interventions in 60 countries: The role of parasite stress and social norms.

2. Pelica, S., Yifan, M., Molho, C., & Tybur, J.M. (in preparation). The shame of being unclean: Evaluative and emotional responses to pathogen-avoidance hygiene norm transgressions.

3*. Sun, H., Spadaro, G., Pelica, S., ... & Tybur, J.M. (in preparation). Friend or fomite: Interpersonal value regulates infection-risky social contact.

Population well-being

4*. Ruggeri, K., Valenzuela-Catarí, G., Polemiti, E., ... Macchia, L., Ashcroft-Jones, S., & Pelica, S. (2025). Global well-being in 2025: A multidimensional analysis of mental, financial, and social health in 92 countries. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3jyda_v1

5*. Ruggeri, K., Urday, R. O., Pelica, S., & Ashcroft-Jones, S. (in preparation). New money, no money, and psychological inheritance in the elasticity of 21st century happiness.

Economic and financial health decision-making

6*. Ruggeri, K., Symone Tutuska, O., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Ashcroft-Jones, S. (2023). The psychology and policy of overcoming economic inequality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23001103

7*. Ruggeri, K., Ashcroft-Jones, S., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Stock, F. (2023). The persistence of cognitive biases in financial decisions across economic groups. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10329. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36339-2

8*. Priolo, G., Stablum, F., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Rubaltelli, E. (2023). The robustness of mental accounting: a global perspective. (in-principle acceptance). Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/apc26

9. Pelica, S. (in preparation). In which experts we trust? Comparing the influence of generative artificial intelligence and human expert advice on financial decisions.

Social media behavior

10*. Stock, F., Pelica, S., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Stablum, F., ... Ruggeri, K., Hertwig, R., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2024). People in 26 countries prefer individual control to commercial or governmental control over online choice architectures. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/haqu9

11*. Rathje, S., Asimovic, N., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Van Bavel, J. (2025). Testing the causal impact of social media reduction around the globe. (Registered Report; in-principle acceptance). Nature.

Social perception, cultural influences and interpersonal processes

12. Pelica, S., Aguiar, T., Frade, S., Guerra, R. & Prada, M. (2024). Are you what you emoji? How skin tone emojis and profile pictures shape attention and social inference processing. Telematics and Informatics, 95, 102207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102207 (see >Quarto report).

13*. Peters, K., Fagan, J., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Inceoglu, I. (2024). Think political leader – Think he or she? A multi-country test of a gender fair language intervention for stereotype bias (Preregistered report, submitted). The Leadership Quarterly.

14*. Sirota, M., Srol, J., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Schmidt, K. (2024). Mapping and increasing error correction behaviour in a culturally diverse sample (Preregistered report, submitted). Nature Human Behaviour.

15*. Grigoryan, L., Grigoryan, A., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Pavlović, Z. (2024). (In)Alienable worth? Cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face and their links to prosociality across the world. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9hb8k_v1

Research Activities

Digital Operations Manager
Junior Researcher Programme (JRP)
December 2022 - Present, United Kingdom.

Visiting Researcher
Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
August 2024, United Kingdom.
Project: People in 25 countries prefer to control their own online environments rather than companies or governments
› Primarily responsible for data preprocessing and codification in Qualtrics. Assisted with analysis and project administration.
› Oriented Bachelor and Master’s students during the project, specifically in writing R code for analysis and preprocessing.
› Recruited more than 500 individuals from the Portuguese population.

Junior Researcher, Project Manager
Junior Researcher Programme (JRP), partnered with Columbia University and the University of Cambridge
July 2021 - December 2022, United Kingdom.
Project: Does Tax Choice Increase Tax Compliance? A Cross-Cultural Study
Advisor: Silvia Filippi
Executive Director: Professor Kai Ruggeri
› Recruited more than 460 individuals from the Portuguese population.
› Conducted data cleaning and wrangling with R.
› Applied Open Science practices.
› Contributed to the writing of the research paper.
› Managed a multinational team.

Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS), affiliated with Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon
May 2022 - October 2022, Portugal.
Project: Ginja, the Guru of Emotions: Emotional Skills of Pre-School Age Children
Advisor: Professor Patrícia Arriaga
› Conducted more than 90 semi-structured interviews with children between 3 and 5 years old in an intervention project related to emotion regulation.

Project Collaborator, Team Manager
JDMLab - Judgement and Decision-Making Lab, affiliated with the University of Padova
April 2022 - September 2022, Italy.
Project: Multicountry Mental Accounting Replication
› Translated and implemented the Mental Accounting scale into Qualtrics as part of an international project
› Elaborated JavaScript code for Qualtrics.
› Managed the team representing Portugal and recruited more than 250 volunteers.

Policy Research Intern
Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
July 2022 - August 2022, United Kingdom.
First Project: The psychology and policy of overcoming economic inequality
Second Project: Poor but not by choice(s): The persistence of cognitive biases across economic groups
Advisor: Professor Kai Ruggeri
Co-Advisor: Sarah Ashcroft-Jones
› Worked with a multinational, multidisciplinary team with the goal of understanding economic inequality through research.
› Applied Open Science practices.
› Contributed to the writing of the research paper.
› Recruited more than 350 individuals from the Portuguese population.
› Conducted R analysis and data wrangling.

Curricular Research Intern
LAPSO - Laboratory of Social and Organizational Psychology, affiliated with Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon
September 2021 - May 2022, Portugal.
Project: What can an Emoji tell me? An eye-tracking study about inferring processes regarding social identity
Advisors: Professor Margarida Garrido and Dr. Sofia Frade
› Worked on a research project as the first author.
› Applied Open Science practices.
› Collected and analysed data from ECG, electrodermal activity (EDA), and Eye tracking.
› Created and delivered a workshop about PsychoPy for online studies.

Graduate Research Assistant
CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies, affiliated with Lusófona University
September 2021 - September 2022, Portugal.
Project: Love-Hate: interactions between social media users and influencers during the social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Advisors: Professor Ana Jorge and Professor Joana Cabral
› Conducted a literature review about cyberbullying.
› Analysed quantitative and qualitative data with SPSS and MAXQDA.

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS), affiliated with Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon
April 2019 - December 2019, Portugal.
First Project: Survival Processing Effect in Memory of Bilinguals
Second Project: Collaborative Learning
Advisors: Professor Margarida Garrido and Dr. Magda Saraiva
› Collected behavioural, ECG and EDA data.
› Managed lab sessions and recruited participants.

Teaching Activities

Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor (2025-Present). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Best Practices for Reproducible Data Processing and Analysis using R and Quarto (2025), with Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, PhD (Columbia University). Kurt Lewin Instituut.

PsychoPy for Online Studies (2022). Workshop at LAPSO.

Communication Activities

Pelica, S., Molho, C., & Tybur, J. (2025, September 18-19). Global Variation in Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions: The Role of Parasite Stress and Social Norms. [Talk]. Conference of the Cognition & Behavior Evolution Network, Belgium.

Pelica, S., & Frade, S. (2023, March 31-1). Once bitten, twice shy: The impact of predictive validity on anticipatory processing during sentence comprehension. [Poster presentation]. Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental [Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology], Portugal.

Pelica, S., Garrido, M., Saraiva, M., & Pandeirada, J. (2023, March 9-11). Adaptive memory in contamination context: Emotionality as a proximate mechanism. [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science, Belgium.

Mariani*, S., Mitra*, M. L., Pelica*, S., Pyrkowski*, M., Toma*, S., & Silvia, F. (2022, August 19-20). Does tax choice increase tax compliance? A cross-cultural study. [Conference presentation]. JRP Conference, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. * Shared position.

Pelica, S., Aguiar, T., Frade, S., Guerra, R., & Prada, M. (2022, June 20–22). O Papel dos Emojis com Tons de Pele na Formação de Impressões [The Role of Skin-Tone Emojis in Impression Formation]. [Conference presentation]. XI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [XI National Symposium on Research in Psychology], Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.

Skills
Programming Languages: R, Python (attended Advanced Scientific Programming in Python, 2025), Markdown, minimal JavaScript (jsPsych, online PsychoPy).
Computational Tools & Software: Posit/RStudio, Jupyter Lab, PsychoPy, Git, Qualtrics, Limesurvey, jsPsych, PsyToolkit, SPSS, JASP, Jamovi.
Media Processing: audio editing (Audacity), image manipulation (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP), video editing (DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro).
Web design: HTML, CSS, WordPress.
Painting: 4 years of training in Fine arts.
Film: 2 years of work experience as an assistant director.
Customer service: +1 year of work experience as a waitress.

Community Engagement & Leadership

Creator of Computational Reproducibility Lesson Plans and Pedagogical Slides for the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training
2025 | These materials were also selected as exemplar guidelines for other pedagogical creators.

Volunteer at International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS)
2023 | Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Volunteer at XVII Ph.D. Meeting in Psychology
2022 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

Member of the Pedagogical Commission
2017 - 2020 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

Class Representative
2017 - 2019 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

Hi, my name is

Sofia Pelica

I am a Behavioral
Researcher

Summary
Sofia Pelica studies thinking and feeling processes in social situations. As a Doctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, she investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying behaviours that impact the transmission of communicable diseases. Her previous research focused on adaptive memory and pathogen disgust during her MSc at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. Her passion for psychological methods, open science practices, and cross-cultural research led her to become a member of the Junior Researcher Programme — a hub for international collaborative research projects in psychology and health policy partnered with Columbia University and the University of Cambridge.
Education
PhD (Promovenda) in Social Psychology: Human Behaviour and Infectious Diseases
May 2023 - Present | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Supervisor: Professor Joshua Tybur
Co-Supervisor: Professor Catherine Molho

MSc in Social and Organizational Psychology
September 2020 – December 2022 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Grade: 19 out of 20. Highest-ranked student in this program's graduating class. Ranked first at the entrance of this program in 2020.
Research-based Dissertation (Graded 20 out of 2): Adaptive Memory in Contamination Contexts: Emotionality as a Proximate Mechanism. This research required Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electrodermal activity (EDA) measures. The analysis was conducted autonomously using R and Python (see Appendices C and D).
Supervisor: Professor Margarida Garrido
Co-Supervisor: Professor Magda Saraiva

BSc in Psychology
September 2017 – June 2020 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Graded 17 out of 20. Equivalent to First-Class Honours in the United Kingdom grading system.

Awards & Honors
Awarded Best Student by the Portuguese Government (DGES).
Ranked in the top 0.01% of more than 14,000 students at Iscte for the 2021/2022 academic year (grade 19.7 out of 20).

Merit Scholarship: Top-Ranked BSc Psychology Student, Iscte, 2020.
Awarded for achieving the highest grade among BSc Psychology students applying to the MSc program.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Publications & Preprints
* indicates cross-country project

Communicable disease prevention and non-pharmaceutical interventions

1*. Pelica, S., Molho, C., ... & Tybur, J.M. (in preparation). Global variation in non-pharmaceutical interventions in 60 countries: The role of parasite stress and social norms.

2. Pelica, S., Yifan, M., Molho, C., & Tybur, J.M. (in preparation). The shame of being unclean: Evaluative and emotional responses to pathogen-avoidance hygiene norm transgressions.

3*. Sun, H., Spadaro, G., Pelica, S., ... & Tybur, J.M. (in preparation). Friend or fomite: Interpersonal value regulates infection-risky social contact.

Population well-being

4*. Ruggeri, K., Valenzuela-Catarí, G., Polemiti, E., ... Macchia, L., Ashcroft-Jones, S., & Pelica, S. (2025). Global well-being in 2025: A multidimensional analysis of mental, financial, and social health in 92 countries. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3jyda_v1

5*. Ruggeri, K., Urday, R. O., Pelica, S., & Ashcroft-Jones, S. (in preparation). New money, no money, and psychological inheritance in the elasticity of 21st century happiness.

Economic and financial health decision-making

6*. Ruggeri, K., Symone Tutuska, O., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Ashcroft-Jones, S. (2023). The psychology and policy of overcoming economic inequality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e174. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23001103

7*. Ruggeri, K., Ashcroft-Jones, S., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Stock, F. (2023). The persistence of cognitive biases in financial decisions across economic groups. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10329. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36339-2

8*. Priolo, G., Stablum, F., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Rubaltelli, E. (2023). The robustness of mental accounting: a global perspective. (in-principle acceptance). Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/apc26

9. Pelica, S. (in preparation). In which experts we trust? Comparing the influence of generative artificial intelligence and human expert advice on financial decisions.

Social media behavior

10*. Stock, F., Pelica, S., Ashcroft-Jones, S., Stablum, F., ... Ruggeri, K., Hertwig, R., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2024). People in 26 countries prefer individual control to commercial or governmental control over online choice architectures. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/haqu9

11*. Rathje, S., Asimovic, N., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Van Bavel, J. (2025). Testing the causal impact of social media reduction around the globe. (Registered Report; in-principle acceptance). Nature.

Social perception, cultural influences and interpersonal processes

12. Pelica, S., Aguiar, T., Frade, S., Guerra, R. & Prada, M. (2024). Are you what you emoji? How skin tone emojis and profile pictures shape attention and social inference processing. Telematics and Informatics, 95, 102207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102207 (see Quarto report).

13*. Peters, K., Fagan, J., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Inceoglu, I. (2024). Think political leader – Think he or she? A multi-country test of a gender fair language intervention for stereotype bias (Preregistered report, submitted). The Leadership Quarterly.

14*. Sirota, M., Srol, J., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Schmidt, K. (2024). Mapping and increasing error correction behaviour in a culturally diverse sample (Preregistered report, submitted). Nature Human Behaviour.

15*. Grigoryan, L., Grigoryan, A., ..., Pelica, S., ... & Pavlović, Z. (2024). (In)Alienable worth? Cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face and their links to prosociality across the world. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9hb8k_v1

Research Activities

Digital Operations Manager
Junior Researcher Programme (JRP)
December 2022 - Present, United Kingdom.

Visiting Researcher
Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
August 2024, United Kingdom.
Project: People in 25 countries prefer to control their own online environments rather than companies or governments
› Primarily responsible for data preprocessing and codification in Qualtrics. Assisted with analysis and project administration.
› Oriented Bachelor and Master’s students during the project, specifically in writing R code for analysis and preprocessing.
› Recruited more than 500 individuals from the Portuguese population.

Junior Researcher, Project Manager
Junior Researcher Programme (JRP), partnered with Columbia University and the University of Cambridge
July 2021 - December 2022, United Kingdom.
Project: Does Tax Choice Increase Tax Compliance? A Cross-Cultural Study
Advisor: Silvia Filippi
Executive Director: Professor Kai Ruggeri
› Recruited more than 460 individuals from the Portuguese population.
› Conducted data cleaning and wrangling with R.
› Applied Open Science practices.
› Contributed to the writing of the research paper.
› Managed a multinational team.

Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS), affiliated with Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon
May 2022 - October 2022, Portugal.
Project: Ginja, the Guru of Emotions: Emotional Skills of Pre-School Age Children
Advisor: Professor Patrícia Arriaga
› Conducted more than 90 semi-structured interviews with children between 3 and 5 years old in an intervention project related to emotion regulation.

Project Collaborator, Team Manager
JDMLab - Judgement and Decision-Making Lab, affiliated with the University of Padova
April 2022 - September 2022, Italy.
Project: Multicountry Mental Accounting Replication
› Translated and implemented the Mental Accounting scale into Qualtrics as part of an international project
› Elaborated JavaScript code for Qualtrics.
› Managed the team representing Portugal and recruited more than 250 volunteers.

Policy Research Intern
Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge
July 2022 - August 2022, United Kingdom.
First Project: The psychology and policy of overcoming economic inequality
Second Project: Poor but not by choice(s): The persistence of cognitive biases across economic groups
Advisor: Professor Kai Ruggeri
Co-Advisor: Sarah Ashcroft-Jones
› Worked with a multinational, multidisciplinary team with the goal of understanding economic inequality through research.
› Applied Open Science practices.
› Contributed to the writing of the research paper.
› Recruited more than 350 individuals from the Portuguese population.
› Conducted R analysis and data wrangling.

Curricular Research Intern
LAPSO - Laboratory of Social and Organizational Psychology, affiliated with Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon
September 2021 - May 2022, Portugal.
Project: What can an Emoji tell me? An eye-tracking study about inferring processes regarding social identity
Advisors: Professor Margarida Garrido and Dr. Sofia Frade
› Worked on a research project as the first author.
› Applied Open Science practices.
› Collected and analysed data from ECG, electrodermal activity (EDA), and Eye tracking.
› Created and delivered a workshop about PsychoPy for online studies.

Graduate Research Assistant
CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies, affiliated with Lusófona University
September 2021 - September 2022, Portugal.
Project: Love-Hate: interactions between social media users and influencers during the social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Advisors: Professor Ana Jorge and Professor Joana Cabral
› Conducted a literature review about cyberbullying.
› Analysed quantitative and qualitative data with SPSS and MAXQDA.

Undergraduate Research Assistant
Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS), affiliated with Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon
April 2019 - December 2019, Portugal.
First Project: Survival Processing Effect in Memory of Bilinguals
Second Project: Collaborative Learning
Advisors: Professor Margarida Garrido and Dr. Magda Saraiva
› Collected behavioural, ECG and EDA data.
› Managed lab sessions and recruited participants.

Teaching Activities

Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor (2025-Present). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Best Practices for Reproducible Data Processing and Analysis using R and Quarto (2025), with Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, PhD (Columbia University). Kurt Lewin Instituut.

PsychoPy for Online Studies (2022). Workshop at LAPSO.

Communication Activities

Pelica, S., & Tybur, J. (2025, September 18-19). Global Variation in Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions: The Role of Parasite Stress and Social Norms. [Talk]. Conference of the Cognition & Behavior Evolution Network, Belgium.

Pelica, S., & Frade, S. (2023, March 31-1). Once bitten, twice shy: The impact of predictive validity on anticipatory processing during sentence comprehension. [Poster presentation]. Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental [Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology], Portugal.

Pelica, S., Garrido, M., Saraiva, M., & Pandeirada, J. (2023, March 9-11). Adaptive memory in contamination context: Emotionality as a proximate mechanism. [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science, Belgium.

Mariani*, S., Mitra*, M. L., Pelica*, S., Pyrkowski*, M., Toma*, S., & Silvia, F. (2022, August 19-20). Does tax choice increase tax compliance? A cross-cultural study. [Conference presentation]. JRP Conference, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. * Shared position.

Pelica, S., Aguiar, T., Frade, S., Guerra, R., & Prada, M. (2022, June 20–22). O Papel dos Emojis com Tons de Pele na Formação de Impressões [The Role of Skin-Tone Emojis in Impression Formation]. [Conference presentation]. XI Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia [XI National Symposium on Research in Psychology], Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal.

Skills
Programming Languages: R, Python (attended Advanced Scientific Programming in Python, 2025), Markdown, minimal JavaScript (jsPsych, online PsychoPy).
Computational Tools & Software: Posit/RStudio, Jupyter Lab, PsychoPy, Git, Qualtrics, Limesurvey, jsPsych, PsyToolkit, SPSS, JASP, Jamovi.
Media Processing: audio editing (Audacity), image manipulation (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP), video editing (DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro).
Web design: HTML, CSS, WordPress.
Painting: 4 years of training in Fine arts.
Film: 2 years of work experience as an assistant director.
Customer service: +1 year of work experience as a waitress.

Community Engagement & Leadership

Creator of Computational Reproducibility Lesson Plans and Pedagogical Slides for the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training
2025 | These materials were also selected as exemplar guidelines for other pedagogical creators.

Volunteer at International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS)
2023 | Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Volunteer at XVII Ph.D. Meeting in Psychology
2022 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

Member of the Pedagogical Commission
2017 - 2020 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon

Class Representative
2017 - 2019 | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon