Curriculum Vitae Dr. Diana Ferreira de Sá

ACADEMIC TRAINING

2002-2007
Studies in Psychology, University of Coimbra, Portugal

10/2007
Mestre Psicologia (Integrated Master in Psychology, University of Coimbra), Title of Master Thesis: “Neuropsychological Assessment of the Oppositional Defiant Disorder”

02/2015
PhD in Psychobiology, Title of Dissertation Thesis: “Reward-related processing of visual food cues: neuroendocrine and stress mechanisms” (Summa Cum Laude)

SCIENTIFIC WORK/FURTHER EDUCATION

09/2006 - 07/2007
Traineeship in Clinical Psychology, Department of Pedopsychiatry, Coimbra Hospital Center, Portugal

04/2008 - 07/2008
Scientific Field Interviewer in the Project “World Mental Health Survey Initiative”, Faculty of Medical Sciences of Lisbon New University and Portuguese Catholic University

2008
External student of “Computational Neuroscience” and “Neuroimaging” from the Doctoral Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine of Porto University

09/2008 - 03/2011
DFG stipendiary in the International Research Training Group „Psychoneuroendocrinology of Stress: From Molecules and Genes to Affect and Cognition”, University of Trier, Germany and University of Leiden, The Netherlands

04/2011 – 2/2015
PhD fellowship, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal

Since 2012
Accredited member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists with the certification nr. 13970

Since 04/2015
Post-Doc at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Saarland University, Germany

AWARDS
Mary-Kingsley Travel Award recipient

IGZ University of Trier Publication Award 2014 (1. Place) for the article “Intranasal Insulin increases regional Cerebral Blood Flow in the Insular Cortex in Men independently of Cortisol Manipulation”

IGZ University of Trier Publication Award 2015 (2. Place) for the article “Cortisol, but not intranasal insulin, affects the central processing of visual food cues.”

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Biological Psychology
Psychophysiology
Appetite
Interface Focus