CURRICULUM VITÆ Miguel Ângelo Andrade andrade

CURRICULUM VITÆ
“ Mais importante que o destino é a viagem. ”
– Eduardo Lourenço
Miguel Ângelo Andrade
[email protected]
ACADEMIC FORMATION
Oct. 2015 – present
PhD in Integrative Neuroscience
– NeurULisboa programme
Universidade de Lisboa – Faculdade de Medicina, Faculdade de
Psicologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Faculdade de Farmácia and
Instituto Superior Técnico
Work funded by a doctoral grant awarded by the FCT, to 6 candidates
out of 148.
Sep. 2012 – Jan. 2015
MSc degree in Cognitive Science
Universidade de Lisboa – Faculdade de Medicina, Faculdade de
Psicologia, Faculdade de Ciências and Faculdade de Letras
Weighted final grade: 18 (out of 20)
MSc dissertation on Cognitive Neuropsychology
“Controlo Cognitivo da Memória Episódica – Dados de
Adolescentes e Jovens Adultos” (Cognitive Control of Episodic
Memory – Data from Adolescents and Young Adults)
Supervisor: Professor Ana Luísa Raposo
Jury members: Professor Ana Sebastião, Professor Rita Jerónimo &
Professor Ana Luísa Raposo
Final grade: 20 (out of 20)
Sep. 2006 – Jul. 2010
BSc degree in Physics
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Weighted final grade: 15 (out of 20)
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Last year’s project
“Termodinâmica do Universo Primitivo” (Thermodynamics of
the Primitive Universe)
Supervisor: Professor Luís Bento
Final grade: 16 (out of 20)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Jan. 2014 – present
Member of the Cognitive Processes Laboratory at
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa
- Collaboration in participants’ recruitment, data collection and
analyses of data on semantic and episodic memory;
- Participation in the weekly lab meetings, including presentation
and discussion of ongoing studies;
- Participation in the monthly meetings of the Cognition in
Context (CO2) group at Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade
de Lisboa.
Jan. 2014 – Jan. 2015
MSc research on Cognitive Neuropsychology /
Experimental Psychology
- Wide literature review bridging cognitive neuroscience studies
on the development of the prefrontal cortex throughout
adolescence, and experimental psychology studies on cognitive
control and episodic memory;
- Conduction of all stages of a behavioural study: selection and
pretesting of materials, tasks programming, testing participants,
statistical analyses of results, interpretation of the data, writing
the thesis and preparing paper for publication;
- Extensive knowledge of experimental paradigms for estimating
controlled and automatic cognitive processing (e.g., ‘Process
Dissociation Procedure’);
- Experienced user of software for presentation of experimental
tasks and data collection (E-Prime) and for statistical data analysis
(SPSS);
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- Experience in
adolescents/minors).
testing
vulnerable
populations
(i.e.,
PUBLICATIONS
Andrade, M. & Raposo, A. (in prep). Under-control: Lower
cognitive control in adolescence affects episodic memory
retrieval. Manuscript in preparation to be submitted to
‘Developmental Psychology’.
COMMUNICATIONS
Apr. 2015
Menor controlo cognitivo na adolescência afeta a memória
episódica (Miguel Andrade & Ana Raposo)
Poster presentation at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese
Association of Experimental Psychology (APPE)
Universidade do Algarve
Feb. 2015
O impacto do desenvolvimento tardio do nosso controlo
cognitivo na memória episódica (Miguel Andrade & Ana
Raposo)
Oral communication at the III Biology Conferences Meeting
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Dec. 2014
O desenvolvimento do controlo cognitivo na memória episódica
– da adolescência à idade adulta (Miguel Andrade &Ana Raposo)
Oral communication at the 3rd Pedagogic Seminar in Psychology
Research
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa.
Dec. 2014
Controlo cognitivo na memória episódica – dados de
adolescentes e jovens adultos (Miguel Andrade & Ana Raposo)
Oral communication at the Lab meeting of the Cognitive
Processes Laboratory
Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa
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EXTRA-CURRICULAR SKILLS
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Language Skills:
Portuguese as mother tongue;
Fluent in English (Comprehension, Speaking and Writing);
Good in Spanish (Comprehension and Speaking).
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Central monitor of the Faculdade de Psicologia at the “Verão na ULisboa”
programme (2015 edition). This is a programme for students of the 3rd cycle and
secondary education, which aims to promote the activities taking place in different
faculties and institutes of the Universidade de Lisboa and to contribute to a more
conscious and safe choice of their following college studies.
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Volunteer leader and monitor of the non-governmental organization CISV
(Children International Summer Villages), which promotes the meeting of cultures
among children and young people of 60 different countries. In 2011, he
accompanied – as their legal guardian – 10 Portuguese children with ages between
12 and 13 years old to the United States of America (Denver, Colorado) on an
Interchange programme.
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Enrolment, in 2008, in the dance academy Jazzy Dance Studios, where he still
maintains regular classes of House dance, Locking, Hip-hop, Popping, Tap dance
and Contemporary dance.
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Practice of Karate Wado-Ryu for 13 years, achieving in 2007 the 1st Dan grade
(black belt).
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Piano lessons for a period of 3 years – private classes.
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