Diogo Lamela

Diogo Lamela is an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychopathology and Child Clinical Psychology at Lusófona University. He serves as Deputy Director of the Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab and Deputy Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at the same institution.

• Education: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho.
• Training: Child Maltreatment Data Collection Short Course, Modified Strange Situation Procedures, Attachment Story Completion Task, The Alarm Distress Baby Scale, Couple Interaction Task, Intimate Relationship Interview, Teacher in Higher Education Training Certificate, Psychological Networks Amsterdam Winter School, Translating Child Sexual Abuse Research to Practice, Compassion Focused Therapy for Difficult Emotions.

His research focuses on child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, coparenting dynamics, and high-conflict divorces. He has authored 46 articles in international journals and contributed to eight funded research projects, emphasizing cross-cultural studies and European child protection frameworks.

Key article trends include perinatal mental health, child abuse surveillance, coparenting assessments, and trauma-informed clinical guidelines. His work employs systematic reviews, longitudinal analyses, and multinational cohort studies.

Lamela actively collaborates with European institutions, serving on editorial boards, advisory panels, and as an expert for the European Commission’s Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values Programme. He also supervises multidisciplinary teams supporting child protection procedures in Portuguese courts.