Rita Pasion holds a PhD degree in Psychology (Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience) and is a certified member of the Portuguese Psychological Association. Since 2014 she has been committed to studying the etiological pathways of different psychopathological manifestations. Her main topic of research relies on searching for basic mechanisms of psychopathology/ personality to conceive empirically-informed classification diagnosis systems and interventions. She is currently involved in research projects framed within the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) from the National Institute of Mental Health (USA) and she was also accepted as a member of the HiTOP ( (Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology) international consortium by merit of her CV; more specifically, she collaborates with the HiTOP Neurobiological Foundations workgroup. Using both frameworks, she wants to characterize emerging transdiagnostic neurobiological mechanisms explaining comorbidity between various forms of psychopathology, by leveraging the interface between quantitative empirically-based models of psychopathology and neurobiological approaches. Her research work has resulted in a considerable amount of scientific production (~44 publications in top-level journals, > 1050 citations, h-17, Google Scholar), , such as Neuroimage, Clinical Psychology Review, Social Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Psychophysiology, Psychological Assessment, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Behavioral Brain Research, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neurosciences. She ranks in the top 0.24% and 0,23% of 264,004 and 81,815 published authors worldwide on Personality and Evoked Potentials ( (#1 in her country), respectively (expertscape.com). In recognition of her work, she received 5 awards and grants: one for fostering open science practices (Open Science Framework award, USA), and the other as an early career researcher (ISPA award, UTAD award, Society for Personality Assessment scholarship, FLAD travel grant). Grounding on her PhD work, she is now leading an international project in the HiTOP Neurobiological Foundations workgroup aiming to characterize modulation of event-related potentials starting from the most basic building blocks of the psychopathology structure (e.g., symptom) and proceeding to the highest level of generality (i.e., high-order latent factors).
