My interests and work are best placed at the intersection of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, I serve as an AI in Education Specialist & Senior Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), department of Education and Student Affairs, where I split my time between AI in education research, institutional AI strategy, and helping teaching staff navigate generative AI in their classrooms.
My background is rooted in Social Cognition. For most of my academic journey, I have researched how humans form impressions about other humans. With the increasing presence of AI in society, my research interests started to drift towards questions related with human-AI interaction and the impact of AI in society. Some of the questions I have worked on include: how humans perceive and trust non-human/articial entities, how they perceive the capabilities of LLMs to match humanlike abilities to judge human behaviors, how students perceive and engage with AI in high-stakes assessment contexts (and importantly what to do about it?).
Industry & Academia
Between academic roles, I worked for some time as a Data Modeller & Researcher at Philips. This experience grounded my scientific research background in the fast-paced high-stakes business reality. There I learned how to translate data insights into viable steps required to build clinical software, while navigating complex product constraints and stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and motivations. I combine my industry experience with technical proficiency in coding (R, Python) to build digital tools that can support people in activities related to whatever projects I work on. Examples include custom tools to support statistical analyses of student research projects (e.g., oddPower) or Generative AI literacy tools for academics and educators (e.g. CARefully prompt).
Converting research into practice: AI in Education
At TU/e, I play a supportive role in the university’s strategy and operational response to Generative AI. As a member of the Task force AI inEducation and working closely with education advisors and institutional leadership, I translate research output and technology trends into practical strategy. My work involves designing and leading activities to help stakeholders (faculty, support staff, students) adapt to educational transformation, specifically in redefining assessment methods and upskilling staff for an AI-integrated reality.
Experience
- AI in Education Specialist & Senior Researcher | May 2026 - Present
- Eindhoven University of Technology, Education and Student Affairs, Department of IE&IS
- Research on AI in education, institutional AI strategy, and bridging research and technology trends with everyday teaching practice. Contributing to the university’s effort to find a coherent approach to AI in education. Member of the Task force AI in Education.
- Postdoctoral Researcher | April 2024 - April 2026
- Eindhoven University of Technology, Human Technology Interaction, Department of IE&IS
- Developed an AI-robust assessment framework to capture evidence of learning in AI-mediated interactions (e.g. Oliveira et al., 2025). Other projects explored the utility of GenAI technology to scaffold teacher feedback to students in CBL contexts (preprint).
- Postdoctoral Researcher & Program Coordinator | 2022 - 2023
- Utrecht University, Coordination Human-AI Alliance Program
- Managed inter-institutional grant calls and conducted research on trust in human-AI interaction.
- Lecturer & Supervisor: Experimental Methods, AI Research Methods, and MSc Thesis Supervision.
- Data Modeller & Researcher (R&D) | 2020 - 2022
- Philips (Eindhoven), Digital Cognitive Diagnostics
- Developed data-driven models for clinical decision support and digital assessment tools.
- Teaching Assistant & Researcher | 2012 - 2019
- Multiple universities: ISPA - Instituto Universitário, University of Lisbon, ISCTE-IUL
- Specialized in Experimental Design, Statistics, and Social Cognition.
Education
PhD in Social Psychology | 2015 - 2019 - ISPA - Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal) & Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands) - Graduated with Honor and Distinction - 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