I was born in Lisbon, Portugal. I have a Psychology BSc (with honors) degree and s M.Sc. degree in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling from the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. I hold a Ph.D degree in Health Psychology from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2014. I currently am Associate Professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal, and at the Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portimão, Portugal. I am the director of the Experimental Psychology Lab at ISMAT and the deputy-director of the Experimental Psychology Lab at Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon. My current research interests are on quantitative methods/psychometrics and ocular (eye tracking) and psychophysiological recording. I have been working in eye tracking methodology since 2008 and I have conducted several eye tracking training courses in Portugal and abroad. I am Invited Associate Professor at ISCTE and at Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellin, Colombia. I am a Researcher with the HEI-Lab: Human-Environment and Interactions Labs .Currently, I am the mentor of the International Conference on Eye Tracking, Visual Cognition and Emotion and I also am the founder of the Meeting of Cognitive Oculometry in Portugal. I have published several articles and book chapters with respect to statistics, attention, emotion and eye tracking. In 2016, I received the Award of Merit Researcher from the Portuguese Society of Health Psychology (SPPS).
