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Portuguese Researcher is a Rising Star of the Association for Psychological Science
Tiago Vaz Maia, a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon was considered a rising star of world scientific psychology by the Association for Psychological Science.
With more than 22.000 members, the Association for Psychological Science is the leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology. Originally named American Psychological Society, it was renamed Association for Psychological Science in 2006 to better reflect its global nature. Every year, the Association for Psychological Science gives the designation of rising star to a small number of researchers who are having a transformative impact on scientific psychology worldwide.
Tiago Maia is especially interested in automatic behaviours, namely habits or emotional responses such as fear. He combines fundamental research on the brain bases of cognition, emotion and behaviour with research on the brain bases of psychiatric and neurological diseases. To that end, he resorts to a wide range of methodologies, with particular emphasis on brain imaging, behavioural experiments and computational modelling of the brain and behaviour.
Having carried out most of his academic career in the United States, Tiago Maia decided to return to Portugal in 2011 as Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and Principal Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine. He also holds a position as Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York.
He is the author of 18 articles published in international scientific journals – 8 of which in journals with an impact factor greater than 10 – and two chapters in international encyclopedias. Tiago Maia has a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Masters in Computer Science from the State University of New York and an MA and PhD in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before returning to Portugal, he was Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University. He had also been a visiting scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, associated with the University of California at Berkeley, and was part of the first group of Portuguese conducting an internship at the European Space Agency.
Source: Press Release of the Institute of Molecular Medicine
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With more than 22.000 members, the Association for Psychological Science is the leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology. Originally named American Psychological Society, it was renamed Association for Psychological Science in 2006 to better reflect its global nature. Every year, the Association for Psychological Science gives the designation of rising star to a small number of researchers who are having a transformative impact on scientific psychology worldwide.
Tiago Maia is especially interested in automatic behaviours, namely habits or emotional responses such as fear. He combines fundamental research on the brain bases of cognition, emotion and behaviour with research on the brain bases of psychiatric and neurological diseases. To that end, he resorts to a wide range of methodologies, with particular emphasis on brain imaging, behavioural experiments and computational modelling of the brain and behaviour.
Having carried out most of his academic career in the United States, Tiago Maia decided to return to Portugal in 2011 as Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and Principal Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine. He also holds a position as Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York.
He is the author of 18 articles published in international scientific journals – 8 of which in journals with an impact factor greater than 10 – and two chapters in international encyclopedias. Tiago Maia has a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Masters in Computer Science from the State University of New York and an MA and PhD in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before returning to Portugal, he was Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University. He had also been a visiting scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, associated with the University of California at Berkeley, and was part of the first group of Portuguese conducting an internship at the European Space Agency.
Source: Press Release of the Institute of Molecular Medicine
Communication & Public Affairs
immcomunicacao@fm.ul.pt