Rosa Cabecinhas holds a PhD in Social Psychology of Communication and is professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, where she teaches Social Psychology and Intercultural Communication. She has coordinate several research projects supported by national or international funds, and was Vice-Chair the the Cost action "Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged Europe". She has been Visiting Scholar/Professor at several universities, including among others: University of Texas at Austin, USA; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e, East Timor; Université de Toulouse, France; Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. A recipient of awards and grants from, among others, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Alto Comissariado para a Imigração e Minorias Étnicas, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, she has been Project leader and Principal Investigator of several research projects supported by national or international funds, and was Vice-Chair the the Cost Action IS1205 "Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged Europe". She published widely in intergroup relations, memory, social representations, media, diversity and social change. Her work is published in Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish, with around 9800 citations in Google Scholar. She authored the book "Preto e Branco. A naturalização da discriminação racial" [Black and White. The naturalization of racial discrimination] (2017, 2ed), and co-edited several volumes, including "Gomos do tempo. Conversas sobre cinema em Moçambique" (2022), "(In)Visibilidades: Imagem e Racism" [(In)Visibilities: Image and Racism"(2020), "Cinema, migrations and cultural diversity" (2019), "Comunicação Intercultural: Perspectivas, Dilemas e Desafios" [Intercultural Communication: Perspectives, Dilemmas and Challenges](2017, 2ed); "Colonial Imaginaries: Propaganda, Militancy and 'Resistance' in the Cinema" (2016). She successful supervised 33 Master dissertations and 22 PhD dissertations, and she participated in dozens of Phd vivas. She was invited as keynote speaker in numerous (inter)national events and has organized an extensive number of scientific events both in Portugal and abroad. She is member of several scientific associations and co-founded SOPCOM (The Portuguese Association for the Communication Sciences). She was co-chair of the SOPCOM research group on "Intercultural Communication" and she is founder and coordinator of the Seminar on "Communication and Diversity" at the University Minho. Her management responsibilities at the University of Minho have included, amongst others, being Head of Department, Deputy-Directer of the Research Center Communication and Society, Head of Master degree program in Communication Sciences, Head of the PhD Program in Cultural Studies, member of the steering committee for international relations and member of the university senate.