Research Interests

Fellowships & Funding

• Fulbright Visiting Predoctoral Research Program, academic year 2024-2025. US research stay grant funded by the Commission for Cultural, Educational, and Scientific Exchange between the United States of America and Spain (FULBRIGHT España) 2024-402. Funding: $22,951. May - December, 2025.

• Pre-doctoral contract for doctoral training (FPI). Contract funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) PRE2021-098458. Funding: 100,860€. September, 2022 - August, 2026. 

Conference Presentations

• Merino-Verona, S., Rico, R., Gagné, M. & Agate, D. (2025, July). The Emergence of Team Motivation: The Role of Supportive Behaviors, Team Identity, and Feedback Dynamics. [Conference session]. INGroup Annual Conference. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• Rico, R., Merino-Verona, S., Gagné, M. & Agate, D. (2025, May). Emotions and adaptive leadership in team adaptation: A quasi-experimental study of medical teams.  [Conference session within the symposium Navigating turbulence: Leadership in Dynamic Work Contexts]. 22nd European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress. Prague, Czech Republic.

• Merino-Verona, S., Rico, R. & Uitdewilligen, S. (2025, January). On the Interplay Between Leadership Styles and Leadership Structures in Predicting Team Performance Under Disruptive Task Changes [Conference session]. INGroup Midyear Conference. Online.

• Merino-Verona, S., Rico, R., Uitdewilligen, S. & Quintana Díaz, M. (2024, August). Emotional Basis of Adaptive Leadership [Conference session within the symposium How Do You Feel Today? Emotion Regulation and Work Outcomes]. Academy of Management Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, United States.

• Merino-Verona, S., Rico, R., Uitdewilligen, S. & Quintana Díaz, M. (2024, July). Exploring the Emotional Basis of Adaptive Leadership: Insights from a Quasi-Experimental Field Study [Poster session]. 16th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP) Conference. Granada, Spain.

• Merino-Verona, S., Rico, R., Gagné, M. & O'Neill, T. (2023, July). From sparks to fire: how team members’ supportive behaviours ignite team identity and influence team motivation [Conference session]. INGroup Annual Conference. Seattle, WA, United States.

• Merino-Verona, S., Rico, R., Gagné, M. & O'Neill, T. (2023, May). A study on the dynamics of the interpersonal feedback loop and its impact on team motivation [Conference session]. 21st European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) Congress. Kattowice, Poland.

• Merino-Verona, S. (2023, April). Spanish adaptation and psychometric study of the prosocial self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ-P) for adults [Poster session]. VII Foro de Investigadores en Formación de la Facultad de Psicología de la UNED. Madrid, Spain.

Award: Best Poster.

• Merino-Verona, S. (2022, October). Spanish adaptation and psychometric study of the Prosocial Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ-P) for adults [Conference session]. International Conference on Education, Technology, Innovation and Development (INCETID). Online.

Research Stays

• Visiting predoctoral researcher, May - December 2025

University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL (US)

Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Griffin

• Visiting researcher, October - December 2023

Future of Work Institute (FOWI) at Curtin University, Perth, WA, (Australia)

Supervisor: Dr. Marylène Gagné, John Curtin Distinguished Professor.