Ana Catarina Canário (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto)
Ana Catarina Canário (Ph.D. in Psychology) is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto and an integrated researcher at the Center for Psychology at the University of Porto, who sees herself as a research methods enthusiast and an open science advocate. Her applied research focuses on evaluating the effects of parenting programs as educational tools to promote the adequate development of children and family well-being. Her work spans multiple areas of expertise, aiming to evaluate the quality of implementation, effects, costs, and sustained use of parenting programs in real-world settings. More recently, her work has focused on the components and delivery formats of parenting programs to better understand the unique contributions of different programs, specifically addressing digital parenting support and its comparison with in-person service provision.
Jesús Palacios (University of Seville)
Jesús Palacios, Ph.D. in Psychology, is a Full Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Seville. His teaching and research activities are related to child protection, particularly in the field of foster care and adoption. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Minnesota and Massachusetts in the United States, as well as at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He has worked and continues to work with authorities in different countries on the development of child protection policies, especially regarding alternatives to institutionalisation: foster care and adoption. He initiated the ongoing Longitudinal Adoption and Institutionalisation Study at the University of Seville (LAIS.US) and coordinates the international network for the study of instability and disruptions in foster care and adoption. His latest book on adoption, The Adopted Child, was co-authored with Professor David Brodzinsky and published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.
Filipa Nunes (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto)
Filipa Nunes is a researcher at the Centre for Psychology of the University of Porto (CPUP). Her research explores adolescent and emerging-adult development, with a particular focus on personal agency, attachment, and close relationships, and how these processes interact with mental health and contemporary contexts such as social media use. She is actively involved in several research projects as a team member and statistical consultant. Methodologically, her work is grounded in ecological and longitudinal designs, multi-informant data, and advanced quantitative approaches, including structural equation modeling, longitudinal modeling, measurement invariance, item response theory, and modern methods for handling missing data. She also has a strong interest in research data management and open science practices.
Tiago Ferreira (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto)
Tiago Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Psychology at the University of Porto. He has a background in statistics and data science and holds a PhD in Psychology. His methodological expertise includes longitudinal data analysis, multi-informant designs, structural equation modeling, and modern missing data methods. He has served as a methodological and statistical consultant on multiple national and international research projects and teaches graduate and postgraduate courses in R programming, statistics, and data analysis.