Artemisa R. Dores

Principal Investigator (PI)

Artemisa Rocha Dores is a female Coordinator Professor in Psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences. She graduated in Psychology with a specialization in Clinical and Health fields, holds a Master’s degree in Psychology with a specialization in Cognitive Sciences, and completed a postdoctoral project titled “Psychobiological Approach to Pathological and Problematic Gambling.” She is a specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology as well as in Neuropsychology.
She has been a Professor at the Polytechnic of Porto, School of Health (E2S - P. Porto) since 2000, where she coordinates the scientific area of Social and Human Sciences. She is a member of the Rehabilitation Research Center (E2S-P.Porto and FPCEUP) and the Neuropsychophysiology Laboratory (FPCEUP), where she leads the research line on behavioral addictions.
She has participated in several European projects, including THERAPY 2.0, COST CA16207 - European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet, BootStRaP: Boosting Societal Adaptation and Mental Health in a Rapidly Digitalizing, Post-Pandemic Europe, Trauma-Informed Practice for Workers in Public Service Settings (TIPS), ITeCS - Inovação Tecnológica em Cuidados de Saúde (IAPMEI - Rede Nacional de Test Beds), and BET-DeTECH: Better Deep Technology Tools for Gambling Harm Prevention, Early Detection, and Personalized Intervention (2024.02009.S4P24), within the framework of the “Science4Policy (S4P-24): Concurso de Estudos de Ciência para as Políticas Públicas” (CEXC/5718/2024 - S4P-24).
She has been dedicated to studying the neurobiological bases of human behavior, with a particular focus on the prevention and intervention of behavioral addictions and neurocognitive rehabilitation.

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Ricardo Queirós

Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Ricardo Queirós holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the School of Media Arts and Design and School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, where he teaches subjects related to web and mobile programming. He is also a researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), INESC TEC Porto, focusing on gamification, interoperability in e-learning systems, and programming language education. Additionally, he coordinates the Office of Distance Learning at the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation (CIP) at the Polytechnic of Porto. He is responsible for organizing the International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC), the first international conference exclusively dedicated to computer programming education. He has participated in several Erasmus+ projects related to promoting programming education (EduJudge, FGPE/FGPE+/FGPE++, JuezLTI, MATH-DIGGER) and pedagogical innovation (INOV-NORTE). Ricardo Queirós has authored over 200 books and scientific publications focused on these areas of teaching and research. Currently, he is working on the design and implementation of gamified education chatbot aimed at enhancing the teaching and learning processes in the education realm.

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António Marques

Researcher

António Marques, Full Professor with Habilitation, holding a Postdoctoral, Doctoral, and Master’s degree in Psychology, he has held various leadership positions in healthcare and higher education institutions.
Currently, he serves as Vice-President for Innovation and Culture at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, overseeing the Porto Innovation Center – Science and Technology Park, Startup Porto, and Porto Design Factory.
He is also the Director of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Laboratory at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto and the School of Health at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.
Additionally, he serves as Vice-Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Research and co-coordinates the Competence Center for Virtual and Augmented Reality at P.PORTO. As a professor and researcher, his main areas of focus are mental health, psychosocial rehabilitation, and virtual and augmented reality. He is responsible for several postgraduate programs, R&D projects, and master’s and Ph.D. theses in these fields.

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Pedro Morgado

Researcher

Pedro Morgado (MD, PhD) is Associate Professor at the School of Medicine and Principal Investigator at ICVS Research Institute, University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. He serves as the Regional Coordinator for Mental Health in the North Region of Portugal. At the ICVS, he leads the Stress and Compulsivity Research Group (Stress.Comp) and heads the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders Unit at Hospital de Braga. His research focuses on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, stress and anxiety, addictive behaviors, and schizophrenia.

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Carla Rocha

Researcher

Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Teacher, and Researcher currently working at Institute on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies, I.P. (ICAD, I.P.), and in private practice;
Author and Coordinator of the “Riscos & Desafios” (Risks & Challenges) Program - Life Skills Development Program at ICAD, I.P.;
Teacher at the Portuguese Institute of Psycology and Other Sciences;
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2016;
Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho in 2005;
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Porto in 1997;
Certified Specialist in Clinical Psychology by the Portuguese Ministry of Health; Certified Specialist in Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, and Community Psychology by the Portuguese Psychologists Association;
Full member of the Portuguese Psychologists Association (Registration Number: 3549);
Postgraduate in Narrative Cognitive Psychotherapy;Psycodramatist - Full member of the Portuguese Society of Psychodrama;
Certified by IEFP in Pedagogical Skills; Certified Teacher by the Scientific-Pedagogical Council for Teacher Training.

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Leonor G. Cardoso

Project Grant Holder

Currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology at the University of Minho. She completed her Master's degree in Psychology with a specialization in Organizational, Social, and Work Psychology. Her main interest is in understanding and finding solutions to social problems that require social cooperation, such as social crises. Specifically, she is interested in how groups and societies evaluate and respond to certain social phenomena.

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Beatriz C. R. Barroso

Project Grant Holder

Graduated with a Master’s Degree in Psychology, with an advanced specialization in Justice and Deviancy. Her main interests lie in the interface of psychology and the justice system. She has a particular focus on understanding the investigative judicial process and relevant policies, and analysing criminal and high-risk behaviours - their characteristics, motives, development, and patterns of repetition.

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Mark Griffiths

Project Consultants

Mark Griffiths is a Chartered Psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Addiction at the Nottingham Trent University, and Director of the International Gaming Research Unit. He has spent 32 in the field and is internationally known for his work into gambling, gaming, and behavioral addictions (including online addictions).

He has published over 900 refereed research papers, five books, 150+ book chapters and over 1500 other articles. He has won 21 national and international awards for his work including the John Rosecrance Prize (1994), CELEJ Prize (1998), Joseph Lister Prize (2004) and the US National Council on Problem Gambling Lifetime Research Award (2013).

He also does a lot of freelance journalism, has appeared on over 3000 radio and television programs, and has written over 350 articles for national and international newspapers and magazines.

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Matthias Brand

Project Consultants

Matthias Brand is full professor of General Psychology: Cognition at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also director of the Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University Duisburg-Essen, Germany and director of the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Essen, Germany. He has a diploma in psychology (1999, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) and a PhD in psychology (2001, University of Bielefeld, Germany).

His research interests concentrate on neurobiological and psychological mechanisms underlying behavioral addictions. He is speaker of the DFG-funded Research Unit 2974 “Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders”. He has published more than 300 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

He is board member of the International Society for the Studies of Behavioral Addictions and associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions..

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