Cícero Roberto Pereira is a Senior Researcher at ICS-ULisboa. His academic career began in 1994 while studying Psychology at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. In 1995, he received a competitive research scholarship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and joined the Political Behaviour Research Laboratory, a leading centre for political psychology in Latin America. He obtained a BA in Psychology (1998), a Master's degree in Social Psychology (2000), and a PhD in Experimental Social Psychology from ISCTE-IUL (2007), where he developed an innovative model explaining the relationship between racism and intergroup discrimination in democratic societies. He later completed his habilitation in Social Psychology (2018). His research focuses on the socio-political psychology of discrimination, including justified discrimination theory, implicit intergroup discrimination in time investment, and the social comparison process. He has published nearly 200 articles in leading international journals.

Prof. Inga Griškova-Bulanova is Head of the Centre for Applied Neurosciences and Professor at Life Sciences Centre, Vilnius University, Lithuania. She currently serves as the Head of the Lithuanian Neuroscience Association, Board Member of the International Pharmaco-EEG Society, and Board Member of the European Society for Brain Stimulation. Her research focuses on human electrophysiology and translational neuroscience, emphasizing EEG biomarkers of sensory processing, cortical network dynamics, and neuromodulation. She leads several national and international projects addressing neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders through multimodal approaches integrating EEG, fNIRS, genetics, and behavioral assessment. Prof. Griškova-Bulanova is actively engaged in European neuroscience networks,  fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and capacity building in applied and clinical neuroscience.

Dr. Joana Cabral is an Assistant Professor at the Bioengineering Department and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico. Her research focuses on developing biophysical and mathematical models to understand the fundamental principles that coordinate brain activity across scales, from local neural oscillations to large-scale functional connectivity. After completing her degree in Biomedical Engineering at NOVA University of Lisbon in 2007, she obtained her PhD in Computational Neuroscience in Barcelona. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford (2014-2017), before returning to Portugal to join the University of Minho (2017-2025) and subsequently IST.

Professor Usha Goswami is the Director for the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, and Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Since her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1987, her research has focused on reading development and developmental dyslexia, with special reference to rhythm and the role of the amplitude modulation structure of speech in auditory temporal processing. Usha Goswami’s research path is an outstanding example of interdisciplinarity, joining education, psychology, speech science, language acquisition and language impairments, and neuroscience. She has received many awards, including the Fellowship of The Royal Society, the Yidan Prize, the British Psychology Society Spearman Medal, and the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize. In 2016 and 2025, she has been awarded ERC Advanced grants on neural rhythmic processing in early language development, and on a cross-language approach to the early identification of dyslexia and developmental language disorder.

Sónia Rafael is Assistant Professor of Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (ULisboa). She collaborates with the Faculty of Architecture in the Master’s programme in Interaction Design and with the ULisboa Rectorate in the PhD programme in Sustainability Sciences. She coordinates the AI for UX course at the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Academy and is an integrated researcher at ITI / LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico. Her work encompasses Communication Design, Interaction Design, and New Media, with a particular focus on sustainability and ethics. Alongside her academic activities, she has professional experience in communication design, interaction design, and creative direction in national and international studios and companies.

In this edition of Mind-Brain conference, we will have an illustrator, Luísa Amado, who will live-illustrate our keynote speakers!

Luísa Amado is a PhD student in Neuroscience, where she investigates neurodevelopmental disorders using cultures of human neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Her work seeks to characterize these disorders at different levels (molecular, functional, and electrophysiological), both at the single-cell scale and at the level of neuronal networks. She conducts her research at the Synapse Biology Laboratory at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, under the supervision of Prof. Ana Luísa Carvalho, Dr. Luís Ribeiro, and Prof. Joris de Wit. Alongside her research, she is dedicated to science illustration and communication, exploring the potential of images to make complex scientific concepts more accessible and engaging. She is the creator of the Quirky Luísa project, through which she shares webcomics inspired by the everyday life of a researcher, seeking to humanize the figure of the scientist. She has also taken part in events as a live illustrator, capturing the experience of attending scientific talks through visual summaries produced on the spot.

Oral Communication

Oral communications are strictly limited to 15 min (12 min presentation + 3 min discussion). 

Poster Communication

Posters must follow the portrait format and not exceed 90 cm wide x 120 cm high.

Pitch Communication

Some posters will be selected for a 5 min pitch presentation. 

PhD students and Early Career Investigators (within a maximum of 3 years after PhD completion) can apply for Oral or Poster presentations. Master's students are eligible to apply for Poster presentations only.

All presentations must be in English.

Submissions: We invite interested presenters to submit abstracts via the conference portal on Google forms.

The abstract may consist of:

Title: Maximum of 150 characters (including spaces)

Authors list: List authors and number institutions as follows: Doe, John (1); Doe, Jane (1,2); ...

Affiliations 

Keywords: Maximum of 3 separated by ";"

Abstract body: Maximum of 350 words

References: Maximum of 3 references in APA style

Funding: You may include references of FCT projects and fellowships or others

Join us at the social dinner on 3 November at Tacho do Pescador. Directions here. The cost is 35€ for a fixed menu of traditional Portuguese food and drink. A bus will be provided to take participants from the conference venue to the restaurant and back after the dinner.  Those who would like to participate in the dinner should select this option during registration and add this cost to their registration fee.  

Registration portal  

Please use the following registration form  to register for the conference and the conference dinner.

Registration fees

• Students of ULisboa: 20€; with dinner: 55€

• Members of ULisboa: 30€; with dinner: 65€

• External students: 30€; with dinner: 65€

• External participants: 50€; with dinner: 85€

Registration includes

• Possibility to submit abstract (free of charge)

• Access to Seminars and Poster Sessions

• Coffee Breaks

Important information

• Your registration will only be completed after payment. You will receive an e-mail confirming your registration. If you do not receive the confirmation email please contact: org.mindbraincollege@gmail.com

• You must pick up your badge at the Registration Desk on the day of the meeting.

• Certificates of Attendance will be sent by e-mail after the end of the meeting.

Payment details

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Conta: 36665472/001

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IBAN: PT50001800003666547200180

BIC/SWIFT: TOTAPTPL

In order for your registration to be completed, we kindly ask you to send your confirmation of payment to org.mindbraincollege@gmail.com.

Ana Luísa Raposo, PhD, Faculdade de Psicologia, ULisboa

Sara Xapelli, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa

Sérgio Pequito, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa

Sónia Frota, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Susana Solá, PhD, Faculdade de Farmácia, ULisboa

Beatriz Vale, PhD student, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa

Jéssica Gomes, PhD student, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Marta Esteves, PhD student, Faculdade de Psicologia, ULisboa

Tiago Coelho, PhD student, Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa

Vera Duarte Silva, PhD student, Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa

Adelaide Fernandes, PhD, Faculdade de Farmácia, ULisboa

Adriana Sampaio, PhD, Escola de Psicologia, UMinho

Alexandre Andrade, PhD, Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa

Amália Mendes, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Ana Lúcia Santos, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Ana Paula Silva, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, UCoimbra

Catarina Miranda, PhD, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, UCoimbra

Cláudia Valente, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa 

David Yates, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Elsa Rodrigues, PhD, Faculdade de Farmácia, ULisboa 

Emma Delhaye, PhD, Faculdade de Psicologia, ULisboa

Fabrizio Macagno, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Federico Herrera, PhD, Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa

Gina Caetano, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa

Joana Cabral, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa

João Oliveira, PhD, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, UMinho

João Veríssimo, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Kai Alter, PhD, Biosciences Institute, UNewcastle 

Liliana Bernardino, PhD, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, UBI

Margarida Diogo, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa 

Maria José Diógenes, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa 

Marina Vigário, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa

Mário B. Ferreira, PhD, Faculdade de Psicologia, ULisboa

Marisa Filipe, PhD, Faculdade de Letras, ULisboa 

Montserrat Comesaña Vila, Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, UMinho

Patrícia Figueiredo, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa

Rafael Henriques, PhD, Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa

Raquel Lemos, PhD, ISPA - Instituto Universitário

Rita G. Nunes, PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa

Rui Costa Lopes, PhD, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, ULisboa

Sandra Vaz, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa 

Sara Xapelli, PhD, Faculdade de Medicina, ULisboa

Sofia Fernandes, PhD, Faculdade de Ciências, ULisboa

Susana Solá, PhD, Faculdade de Farmácia, ULisboa

For more information, please contact us: org.mindbraincollege@gmail.com