Nuno Gomes

Nuno Gomes is an assistant professor at ISPA – Instituto Universitário. In May 2021, he obtained a PhD in Social Psychology from ISPA – Instituto Universitário, funded by an individual doctoral fellowship from FCT, with unanimous distinction and laudation. During his PhD, he investigated the modulatory effects of emotional chemosignals, such as fear-related body odours, and the presence of conspecifics on human vigilance. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher on POTION, an international research project funded by the European Commission under the H2020 programme, which explored the contribution of happiness- and fear-related body odours to different dimensions of social relations. After being awarded an Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus contract by FCT, he joined the University of Aveiro, where he worked as a researcher for approximately two years. He has since returned to ISPA as the Principal Investigator of Scent Bonding, an exploratory project funded by FCT that examines how aggression- and happiness-related chemosignals may modulate the establishment of social relations.