Nuno Gomes (6713-CA64-F3AB)

Curriculum Vitae

Nuno Gomes

Nuno Gomes is a post-doctoral researcher (CEEC IND) at the William James Center for Research (University of Aveiro) - funded by an individual grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) - and an assistant professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário. In May 2021, he obtained a PhD degree, funded by an individual doctoral fellowship from FCT, in Social Psychology at ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal, with unanimous distinction and laudation. During his PhD, he was interested in understanding the modulatory effects of emotional chemosignals (e.g., fear body odors) and the presence of conspecifics on human vigilance. He also worked on an international research project (POTION) funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program, which explores the contribution of happy and fear-related body odors in modulating several dimensions of social relations. Currently, he is interested in understanding how aggression and happiness chemosignals may modulate the establishment of social relations in healthy and anosmic people. He has published 14 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (8 as the first author) in collaboration with 20 different researchers from national and international universities. He received also 2 national awards. Keywords: Attention; Vigilance; Human Olfaction; Emotion-related Body Odors; Social Relations.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Nuno Gomes

Citation names

Gomes, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 6713-CA64-F3AB
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0545-607X
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dRTwepcAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Id: 57192590353

Email addresses

ngomes@ispa.pt (Professional)
ngomes92@ua.pt (Professional)

Addresses

William James Center for Research - ISPA. Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34 1149-041 Lisboa, 1149-041, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
William James Center for Research, Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 , Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://williamjamescr.org/people/social-cognition-and-body-odors-team/nuno-gomes/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/03/01 - 2021/05/06 Concluded	PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento) Major in Social Psychology ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal "Modulating Vigilance: The differential contribution of fear chemosignals and group contexts." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
2016/04/01 Concluded	Master in Neuropsychology (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal "The Advantage Of Fear Stimuli In Accessing Visual Awareness" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2013 Concluded	Bachelor in Psychology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/07/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

2021/05/17 - 2023/06/30	Postdoc (Research)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal
2016/04/01 - 2017/02/28	Research Assistant (Research)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
	Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10/15 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014/09/15 - 2015/07/31	Neuropsychologist Trainee (Academic Internship)	Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/01 - 2027/06	Becoming prosocial amidst social media – Neural markers of prosocial behaviour in early adulthood and the effects of social media consumption No. 260/24 Researcher ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal	Fundação Bial
2024/11/01 - 2026/10/31	Growing up kind: Neural markers of prosocial development and the effects of social media. LCF/PR/SR24/00474 Researcher ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal	Obra Social La Caixa Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2021/05/06	Modulating vigilance: The differential contributions of fear chemosignals and group contexts SFRH/BD/116653/2016 PhD Student Fellow Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigação William James, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/07/01 - 2029/06/30	Social Nose: The contribution of emotional body odors to social relations 2022.06494.CEECIND/CP1720/CT0036 10.54499/2022.06494.CEECIND/CP1720/CT0035 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/05/17 - 2023/06	POTION - Promoting social interaction through emotional body odours Grant agreement no. 824153 Post-doc	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Future and Emerging Technologies Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centro de Investigação William James UID/PSI/04810/2019 Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal William James Center for Research, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/04/01 - 2018/06/30	Invisible Danger: The Role Of Attention In Processing Unaware Threat Stimuli B.14.2.TBT.0.06.01.02-216-188222 Researcher Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey	TÜBITAK - The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Soares, Sandra C.; Pinheiro, Sara; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Fábio; Gomes, Nuno; Magano, Sara ; Madeira, Nuno. "Comparing social and nonsocial relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Paper presented in European Congress of Psyquiatry, Warsaw, 2019. Published Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Azevedo, Joana; Soares, Sandra C.. "The advantage of fear stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Paper presented in European Congress of Psyquiatry, Madrid, 2016. Published • 0.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1337
Conference poster	Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün. R.. "Stress-Related Chemosignals: The adaptive advantages triggered in receivers". Paper presented in 18º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2024. Benrós, Miguel F.; Luís, Ana I.; Semin, Gün R.; Mares, Inês; Gomes, Nuno. Corresponding author: Gomes, Nuno. "Is it an emotion? - The role of alexithymia in the processing of visually degraded stimuli". Paper presented in 18º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2024. Bruderer, T; Ripszam, M; Vivaldi, F; Gargano, A; Gomes, Nuno; Callara, A. L.; Ghimenti, S.; et al. "Comprehensive GCxGC high resolution ms and selective isolation of chemicals in the investigation of human chemosignals elicited from emotional stimulation". Paper presented in Euroanalysis, 2023. Gomes, Nuno; Pause, B. M.; Smeets, M. A. M.; Semin, G. R.. "Comparing Fear and Anxiety Chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activity?". Paper presented in 17º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2023. Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün R.. "Mapping Human Vigilance: The Effect of a Group Context". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência ’19, 2019. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "O processamento privilegiado de estímulos evolutivamente relevantes depende de informações de baixa frequência espacial". Paper presented in 12º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2017. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "O Papel da frequência espacial no acesso à consciência de estímulos biologicamente relevantes.". Paper presented in IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia, 2016. Soares, Sandra C.; Kessel, Dominique; Hernández-Lorca, María; García-Rubio, María J.; Rodrigues, Paulo; Gomes, Nuno; Carretié, Luis. "Deconstructing Exogenous Attention to Fear: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates.". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2016. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Beware the Serpent: The advantage of evolutionary-relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness.". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN), 2016. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Ansiedade não modula o acesso de estímulos evolutivamente relevantes à consciência.". Paper presented in 10º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia Experimental, 2016. Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Xavier, Sandra; Soares, Sandra C.. "The Advantage of Fear Stimuli in Accessing Visual Awareness.". Paper presented in 25th European Congress of Psychiatry, 2016.
Journal article	Biondi, Luiz; Gomes, Nuno; Maior, Rafael S.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Revisiting “The Malicious Serpent”: Phylogenetically Threatening Stimulus Marked in the Human Brain". Emotion Review (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17540739241277942. 10.1177/17540739241277942 Silva, Fábio; Magalhães, Ana C.; Fidalgo, Daniela; Gomes, Nuno; Garrido, Marta I.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat". Motivation and Emotion (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-024-10085-y. 10.1007/s11031-024-10085-y Semin, Gün R.; DePhillips, Michael; Gomes, Nuno. "Investigating Inattentional Blindness Through the Lens of Fear Chemosignals". Psychological Science 35 1 (2024): 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231213572. Published • 10.1177/09567976231213572 Gomes, Nuno; Benrós, Miguel F.; Semin, Gün R.. "Validation of the open biological negative image set for a Portuguese population: Comparing Japanese and Portuguese samples and an exploration of low-order visual properties of the stimuli". Behavior Research Methods (2023): https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-023-02090-9#article-info. Open access • Published Gomes, Nuno; Pause, Bettina M; Smeets, Monique A M; Semin, Gün R. "Comparing fear and anxiety chemosignals: Do they modulate facial muscle activity and facilitate identifying facial expressions?". Chemical Senses 48 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjad016. 10.1093/chemse/bjad016 Semin, Gün R.; Gomes, Nuno; D’Aniello, Biagio; Sabiniewicz, Agnieszka. "Can Humans Discriminate Horse ‘Fear’ Chemosignals from Control Chemosignals? Comment on Sabiniewicz et al. A Preliminary Investigation of Interspecific Chemosensory Communication of Emotions: Can Humans (Homo sapiens) Recognise Fear- and Non-Fear Body Odour from Horses (Equus ferus caballus). Animals 2021, 11, 3499". Animals 12 12 (2022): 1489. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12121489. 10.3390/ani12121489 Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün R. "The Function of Fear Chemosignals: Preparing for Danger". Chemical Senses 46 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjab005. Published • 10.1093/chemse/bjab005 Silva, Fábio; Gomes, Nuno; Korb, Sebastian; Semin, Gün R. "Not All Emotions Are Equal: Fear Chemosignals Lower Awareness Thresholds Only for Fearful Faces". Chemical Senses 45 7 (2020): 601-608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaa047. 10.1093/chemse/bjaa047 Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Fábio; Semin, Gün R.. "The lasting smell of emotions: The effects of reutilizing fear sweat samples". Behavior Research Methods 52 6 (2020): 2438-2451. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01412-5. 10.3758/s13428-020-01412-5 Gomes, Nuno; Semin, Gün R.. "Mapping human vigilance: The influence of conspecifics". Evolution and Human Behavior (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.10.002. 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.10.002 Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Soares, Sandra C.. ""Threat-unrelated" properties: An ill-defined concept. A reply to "The danger of interpreting detection differences between image categories" (Gayet, Stein, & Peelen, 2019).". Emotion 19 5 (2019): 933-937. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000632. 10.1037/emo0000632 Gomes, Nuno; Soares, Sandra C.; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.. "Mind the snake: Fear detection relies on low spatial frequencies.". Emotion 18 6 (2018): 886-895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000391. 10.1037/emo0000391 Soares, Sandra C.; Kessel, Dominique; Hernández-Lorca, María; García-Rubio, María J.; Rodrigues, Paulo; Gomes, Nuno; Carretié, Luis. "Exogenous attention to fear: Differential behavioral and neural responses to snakes and spiders". Neuropsychologia 99 (2017): 139-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.007. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.007 Gomes, Nuno; Silva, Samuel; Silva, Carlos F.; Soares, Sandra C.. "Beware the serpent: the advantage of ecologically-relevant stimuli in accessing visual awareness". Evolution and Human Behavior 38 2 (2017): 227-234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.004. 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.10.004

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/02	(Invited Speaker) Vigilance in Humans: The Influence of Copresence and Fear Body Odors	ISPA Conference Cycle ISPA - Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/09	(Invited Speaker) Reutilizing Sweat Samples: The robustness of information transfer through fear chemosignals	XXXI ECRO meeting European Chemoreception Research Organization (Cascais, Portugal)
2020	Mapping Human Vigilance: The Influence of Fear Body Odors in Detecting Threatening Changes	4thLiSP Annual Meeting Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019	Mapping Human Vigilance: The Effect of a Group Context	X Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia (Funchal, Portugal)
2018/04	(Invited Speaker) Invisible Danger: What is behind the privileged access of threat stimuli to visual awareness?	Cognitive Sciences Colloquium Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey)
2018/01	Modulating Vigilance: The contribution of a Group Context	3rd LiSP Annual Meeting LiSP (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017	Beware the Serpent: The Advantage of Ecologically-Relevant Stimuli in Accessing Visual Awareness	Cerimónia de entrega do Prémio ISPA de Investigação em Psicologia e Ciências do Comportamento ISPA - Instituto Universitário (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017	Modulating Vigilance: The Contributions of Fear Chemosignals	2nd LiSP Annual Meeting LiSP (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Distância Interpessoal em Indivíduos com Traços de Autismo: Impacto da Alexitimia, Ansiedade Social e Expressões Faciais Emocionais Supervisor of Patrícia Soares Bettencourt	Master in Clinical Psychology (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/12/29 - Current	From mood to chemosignalling: the reward of being prosocial Co-supervisor of Andreia Santiago	PhD in Cognitive Psychology (PhD) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/10 - Current	O processamento de expressões emocionais – Associação com traços de ansiedade Co-supervisor of Noemi Barros	Master in Clinical Psychology (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/01/02 - Current	Do fear chemosignals modulate face perception? Supervisor of Miguel F. Benrós	PhD in Social Psychology (PhD) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Relação entre Traços de Autismo e Alexitimia e a Detecção Emocional Co-supervisor of Matilde Raposo	Master in Clinical Psychology (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Reconhecimento de expressões faciais em indivíduos com traços de autismo e alexitimia Co-supervisor of Emanuel Reis	Master in Clinical Psychology (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/12	Emotional Processing in Alexithymia: Behavioral Evidence Co-supervisor of Ana Isabel Luís	Master in Neurosciences (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/12	A Distância, a Depressão e a Ansiedade no Reconhecimento Emocional Co-supervisor of Natacha Mendes	Master in Clinical Psychology ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/12 - 2019/12	3rd Lisbon Social Psychology Annual PhD Meeting (2019/12 - 2019/12) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2018/12 - 2018/12	2nd Lisbon Social Psychology Annual PhD Meeting (2018/12 - 2018/12) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/03 - 2025/03	Visit high schools to engage students with ongoing research in psychology and human interaction Other	Outreach Program for High School Students ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Outreach activity Exhibition	European Researchers Night
2017 - 2017	Outreach activity Exhibition	Futurália

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/12	Perceção de risco enquanto mediador da relação entre o consumo de substâncias e as suas consequências President of the jury	Diogo Pereira Riberal (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2024/12	Traços de Alexitimia e Autismo na Integração Emocional Auditiva e Visual (Thesis) Main arguer	Rafael Zveiter da Nóbrega (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2024/11	O Consumo de Substâncias Lícitas e Ilícitas entre Estudantes Universitários em Portugal: Um Estudo Empírico sobre Padrões, Contextos, e Motivações do Consumo President of the jury	Patrícia Chacatas Seatra (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2024/09/30	Análise empírica dos Modelos de Duplo-Processamento no contexto de consumo de álcool: A influência da Motivação para o Controlo do Consumo de Álcool President of the jury	Cláudia Sofia Monte da Graça (Master) ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/12	Memory and mate selection: the role of carotenoid coloration (Thesis) Main arguer	Jênnyfer Cristina Almeida de Freitas (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/11/24	Effects Of Anxiety States On Attention Towards Irrelevant Emotional Distractors (Thesis) Main arguer	Tânia Freitas Fonseca (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/09 - Current	Psychological Science	Sage
2024/05 - Current	BMC Psychiatry	Springer Nature
2023 - Current	PeerJ
2023 - Current	Collabra: Psychology
2021 - Current	Plos One (1932-6203)
2021 - Current	Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (0005-7916)
2020 - Current	Scientific Reports (2045-2322)

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2019 - 2021	Student representative - Representative Assembly of ISPA Member	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Psychology and data analysis consultant for a Portuguese company (OddsGate) developing an algorithm to detect pathological gambling on online gaming platforms

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/10 - Current	Statistical Analysis I & II (Bachelor in Psychology)	(Licenciatura)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2025/01 - 2025/01	Introduction to Linear Mixed-Effects Models (LMMs)	(Doutoramento)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/04	Introduction to Linear Mixed-Effects Models (LMMs)	(Doutoramento)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/11	JASP & JAMOVI - “The power of R with the simplicity of SPSS” (Training for University Faculty)	(Outros)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Research Methods in Psychology II	Bachelor in Psychology (Licenciatura)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2021 - 2023	Research Methods in Psychology I	Bachelor in Psychology (Licenciatura)	ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/09 - Current	Análise Psicológica (0870-8231)

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2023/03 - 2023/10	Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário	Susana Sá
2023 - 2023	POTION Project: Mentoring RA	Ana I. Luís
2022 - 2023	POTION Project: Mentoring RA	Andreia Santiago
2021 - 2023	POTION Project: Mentoring RA	Miguel F. Benrós
2021 - 2023	POTION Project: Mentoring RA	Andreia Ribeiro
2021 - 2023	POTION Project: Mentoring RA	João S. Frade
2020/03 - 2021/10	Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário	Rita Cordeiro
2019/03 - 2019/07	Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário	Francisco Queirós
2019/03 - 2019/06	Program for the development of research skills, ISPA -Instituto Universitário	Guida Rodrigues

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current	Evaluator of Grant Proposal for the National Science Centre, Poland
2023 - 2025	Jury member for the recruitment of a Research Assistants (Master's level) within the scope of various research projects (e.g., POTION project)

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018/04 - 2018/07	Visiting PhD Student - Supervisor: Professor Cengiz Acartürk	Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey
2018/02 - 2018/04	Visiting PhD Student - Supervisor: Professor Monique A. M. Smeets	Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

Distinctions

Award

2017	ISPA Award For Research In Psychology And Behavioral Sciences ISPA - Instituto Universitário, Portugal
2016	Best Poster Award - IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia, Portugal