M. Prada obtained a PhD in Social Psychology at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in 2010 and recently completed the Habilitation degree in Psychology. She has extensive teaching experience, having taught (and coordinated) diverse undergraduate and graduate courses with an emphasis on research methods, academic skills, and consumer behavior. M. Prada has been involved in mentoring students/junior researchers, including the supervision of post-doctoral researchers, research fellows, and curricular internees in different areas of Psychology. She has also been supervising 4 Ph.D. students (1 completed) and over 50 master's student dissertations at Iscte (4 ongoing). The work developed in collaboration with research fellows and students have resulted in several publications and presentations at scientific events. I also often participate in academic juries, mostly at Iscte, but also in other institutions. Current management, pedagogic, and scientific positions include Editor-in-Chief of the national peer-reviewed Revista PSICOLOGIA (Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia); Director of LAPSO (Psychology Laboratory at Iscte); member of the Psychology Ethics Committed; elected member of the Scientific Committee of the Psychology Department and the Pedagogic Commission of the School of Social Sciences. Other experiences include coordinating the Behavior, Emotion, and Cognition research group (Cis_Iscte). To date, M. Prada (co)authored 51 international and 14 national peer-reviewed papers. She has also invested in pedagogic publications (e.g., summary and adaptation to Portuguese of the main APA¿s recommendations for scientific communication), including the co-edition of a handbook on academic skills, and regularly participates in national and international scientific events (over 100 oral communications and poster presentations). Participation in activities aimed at disseminating scientific information to broader audiences includes Noite Europeia dos Investigadores; 90 segundos de ciência. M. Prada has collaborated on several projects with competitive funding from national (e.g., Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Fundação Bial) and international agencies (e.g., European Commission). She was the principal investigator of an FCT-funded project (Individual and contextual determinants of sugar perception and consumption, conclusion May 2022) that allowed her to expand the research network. Currently, she is the project leader of a project funded by Fundação La Caixa that further examines the issue of excessive sugar intake in Portuguese children (LessSugar4Kids: Children, parents, and teachers¿ perspectives on sugar intake reduction, 2023 Social Research call). Moreover, she is Iscte´s Principal Investigator of a project developed by a European Consortium (MedDietMenus4Campus: Promoting stakeholder adherence to Mediterranean Diet on Campus through menu interventions and social marketing strategies), funded by the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) through FCT. Her current research interests focus on food perception and choice, investigating the: a) contextual effects on food perception (e.g., the impact of food claims such as organic and gluten-free on the perceived healthfulness, taste, and caloric content); b) determinants of adherence to plant-based diets; and c) individual and contextual determinants of sugar intake. Other research interests include the impact of visual cues (e.g., emoji) on user impression formation and the outcomes of computer-mediated communication; and the development and validation of instruments (e.g., image databases including food, sounds, and facial expressions).