Josefa Pandeirada

Josefa Pandeirada is an integrated member of the research group AgeingC at CINTESIS.

She has a degree in Psychology, a postgraduate degree in Cognitive Sciences and a doctorate in Psychology from the Institute of Education and Psychology of the University of Minho.

She began her professional activity as a monitor at the University of Minho (UM). She has worked as Clinical Psychologist at this and other institutions. She then began working at the Lusíada University of Porto as assistant professor and coordinator of the area of Cognitive Sciences. She has also worked at the univeristies of Purdue (USA) and Oxford (United Kingdom).

She is a scientific consultant of the projects Adaptive Memory and Functional Determinants of Memory, both funded by the National Science Foundation (USA). She is regularly invited to review articles in international journals and she is an associate editor of the journal Frontiers in Psychology – Comparative Psychology.

She is currently a researcher at the University of Aveiro . Throughout her career, she has received several awards, such as the Grindley Grant, awarded by the Experimental Psychology Society, and the Maria Fernanda Navarro Award for Adolescent Health, awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.