Lucia Garrido

Dr Lúcia Garrido is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at City St George's, University of London. She joined the institution in 2019, having previously served as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London (2013-2019), and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2010-2013).

• PhD in Psychology, University College London
• MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London
• BSc in Psychology, University of Porto, Portugal

Her research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, particularly the perceptual mechanisms underlying social interactions. She investigates how humans use facial and vocal cues for identity recognition, emotion inference, and social decision-making through behavioral and neuroimaging methods.

Dr Garrido has secured significant research funding, including a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2024-2025) for her project on information encoding in brain face-selective regions, and a Bial Foundation Grant (2015-2017) for studying facial/bodily temperature maps of emotions.

• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (£62,205)
• Experimental Psychology Society Research Grant (£3,500)
• Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (£202,083)
• Bial Foundation Grant (€38,700)