André Silva PhD

Assistant Professor | andre.silva@universidadeeuropeia.pt

I am an assistant professor of Psychology at the Europeia University in Lisbon.
My main interests are cognition, psychophysiology, gaming, and virtual reality.


Experience in Teaching

Assistant Professor

Universidade Europeia | Lisboa, Portugal

Classes taught:
2025/2026 - Cognitive Psychology & Psychophysiology (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology); Cognitive Neuroscience (Master's Degree in Neuroscience); Psychophysiology (Online Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)

September 2025 - Present

Assistant Professor

Instituto Piaget | Almada, Portugal

Classes taught:
2022/2023 - History of Psychology, Theories and Systems; Statistics Applied to Psychology II; Laboratory Techniques; Personal Portfolio I; Psychophysiology; and Differential Psychology; Portfolio II (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology); Psychophysiology (Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education)

2023/2024 - History of Psychology, Theories and Systems; Contexts of Practice of Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Psychophysiology; and Final Project (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology); Advanced Research Methods (Master's Degree in Social and Organisational Psychology)

2024/2025 - Cognitive Psychology; Statistics Applied to Psychology II; Psychophysiology; Final Project (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology); Advanced Research Methods (Master's Degree in Social and Organisational Psychology); Advanced Research Methods (Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology)

September 2022 - July 2025

Invited Assistant Professor

ISCTE-IUL | Lisboa, Portugal

Classes taught:
2023/2024 - Theories and Perspectives on Emotions; and Psychophysiology of Emotions (Master's Degree in Science of Emotions); Learning, Motivation and Emotion; and Psychophysiology and Genetics (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)

2024/2025 - Academic Competencies; and Psychophysiology and Genetics (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology); Psychophysiology of Emotions; and Cognition and Emotion (Master's Degree in Science of Emotions)

September 2023 - August 2025

Invited Assistant Professor

ISMAT | Portimão, Portugal

Classes taught:
2024/2025 - Research Methods II: Experimental Methods (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology)

September 2024 - March 2025

Invited Assistant Professor

Universidade Europeia | Lisboa, Portugal

Classes taught:
Experimental Psychology Laboratory (Bachelor's Degree in Psychology).

February 2025 - July 2025

Experience in Research

Doctoral Researcher

INSIGHT - Piaget Research Center for Ecological Human Development | Almada, Portugal

Human-Centric AI-Enabled Extended Reality Applications for the Industry 5.0 era XR5.0. Project funded by the EU (Horizon 2020: 101135209)

April 2019 - October 2023

Principal Investigator

University of Coimbra | Coimbra, Portugal

Changing Human Time Perception in Virtual Reality Emotional Priming: A Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Study. Project funded by BIAL Foundation (318/18)

April 2019 - October 2023

Doctoral Researcher

University of Aveiro | Aveiro, Portugal

DORIAN: Do you recognise me? The impact of chronotype and time-of-day on face recognition Project funded by FCT (PTDC/PSI-GER/31082/2017)

February 2021 - August 2022

Other Experience

Clinical Psychologist

Center Catarina Lucas | Lisboa, Portugal

Clinical psychology, psychotherapy and assessment

September 2023 - Present

Science Manager

University of Coimbra | Coimbra, Portugal

COST Action Riseup-PPD: Research Innovation and Sustainable Pan-European Network in Peripartum Depression Disorder

April 2019 - November 2020

Education

University of Minho | Braga, Portugal

PhD in Basic Psychology
Dissertation title: Interpersonal attractiveness and attention, memory, and time perception

Grade: Very Good

October 2012 - March 2019

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro | Vila Real, Portugal

Master's Degree in Psychology
Thesis title: Emotional priming and crime severity judgments
September 2009 - January 2012

University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro | Vila Real, Portugal

Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
September 2006 - July 2009

Instituto Piaget | Almada, Portugal

Advanced Degree in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
September 2024 - March 2025

Skill and Interests

Psychophysiology and Laboratory Techniques

  • Electroencephalography (EEG)
  • Peripheric Measures (ECG, PPG, fEMG, EDA)
  • Portable and Fixed Eye-Tracking and Pupilometry
  • Open Sesame, Gorilla, PsychoPy, and ePrime

Other interests

  • Lego Building
  • Reading and Writing Fiction
  • Analog and Digital Gaming
  • Flying Ultralight Aircraft

Experiments

Open Experiments

There are currently no open experiments! Stay tuned!