My name is Manuel Oliveira (he/him). Currently, I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology working on the topic of AI in Education.
I have a background in Psychology and my doctoral work focused on the relation between personality stereotypes and social attributions based on facial appearance. Most of the work I’ve done in the past years involved statistics, programming (R & Python), experimental design, and scientific writing. After my Ph.D. I moved on to an R&D industry job where I gained further experience with coding skills, how businesses operate, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, and working with teams with diverse professional backgrounds. During that period, I became increasingly interested in the challenges emerging from the growing presence of AI in society. This led me to seek new roles where I could learn more about how people interact with technology in general, and more specifically AI. I found my first opportunity to work on this topic in a postdoctoral position at Utrecht University, where I spent my time research topics of trust in AI and human-AI interaction in general.
Since 2024, I’m working on the topic of AI in Education as a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Experience
Postdoctoral researcher, Coordination Human-AI Alliance program @ Utrecht University | 2022 - 2023
Teaching activities:
Experimental Methods and Statistics, BSc in Artificial intelligence
Thesis supervision, BSc in Artificial intelligence
Thesis supervision, MSc in Psychology
Methods for AI Research, MSc in Artificial Intelligence
Integrative Practicum - Scientific Writing, Correlational Designs and Data Analysis, Research MSc Psychology
Data Modeller & Researcher @ Philips - Digital Cognitive Diagnostics | 2020 - 2022
Teaching Assistant @ ISPA - Instituto Universitário | 2016 - 2019
Academic Skills
Data Processing
Experimental design
Face image manipulation
Research Assistant @ ISCTE-IUL | 2014
Teaching Assistant @ University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology | 2013 - 2014
- Face image manipulation techniques
Research Assistant @ University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology | 2012 - 2014
Strategic Planning Internship @ Publicis Groupe | 2009 - 2010
Education
PhD in Social Psychology | 2015 - 2019
ISPA - Instituto Universitário | Lisbon, Portugal & Utrecht, Netherlands
Graduated with Honor and Distinction
PhD Dissertation: “The structuring role of valence in the relationship between and within models of face and trait impressions”
MSc in Social and Organizational Psychology | 2009 - 2011
- ISPA - Instituto Universitário | Lisbon, Portugal
BSc in Psychology | 2006 - 2009
- University of Aveiro | Aveiro, Portugal