Joana Grave is a PhD student in Psychology under an FCT scholarship. Her doctoral project is being carried out at the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Aveiro, under an FCT scholarship, in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Tubingen, Germany.

The main goal of her research is to study how emotional cues are perceived and influence cognition and behavior, both in the general population and across the psychotic spectrum. Currently, she is involved in scientific dissemination projects, such as Pint of Science. Joana has a degree in Psychology (2012) and a master's degree in Forensic Psychology (2014) from the University of Aveiro, and a postgraduate degree in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapies from INSPSIC (2016). Previously, she collaborated on research projects at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2016-2018) and as a Guest Assistant Professor (2017-2018) at the same institution. She has been a full member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists since 2016, having worked as a Clinical Psychologist at Hospital do Mar, Loures (2017-2018) and as a Junior Psychologist in the area of protection of children and young people at risk/danger and domestic violence (2015- 2016).

Supervisor: Sandra C. Soares

Co-Supervisors: Birgit Derntl and António Macedo

Main publications

Grave, J. (2021). Scientists should be open about their mistakes. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01225-2

Grave, J., Madeira, N., Martins, M.J., Silva, S., Korb, S., Soares, S.C. (2021). Slower access to visual awareness but otherwise intact implicit perception of emotional faces in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Consciousness and Cognition, 93, 103165. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2021.103165

Grave, J., Soares, S.C., Madeira, N., & Martins, M.J. (2017). Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: A review of behavioural and neural correlated. International Journal of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health. doi: 10.21035/ijcnmh.2017.4(Suppl.3), S06.