Susana Araújo

Susana Araújo serves as Associate Researcher at CICPSI Research Unit within the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Psychology. She coordinates the Cognition in Context Group (CO2) since 2023 and holds Senior Investigator status in the Memory & Language team, specializing in neurocognitive mechanisms of reading acquisition and disorders using EEG-ERPs and eye-tracking methodologies.

Education:

• PhD in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (University of Algarve, Portugal; Donders Institute, Netherlands)
• Postdoctoral Fellowships (2012-2017)

Her research critically examines literacy's impact on cognitive systems through investigations of visual word recognition, reading disorders, and rapid automatized naming. Current work explores how handwriting training influences graph recognition and identifies neurophysiological markers of dyslexia using multimodal assessment tools.

Publication trends reveal sustained focus on cross-population comparisons (literate/illiterate adults) and meta-analytic approaches to naming-speed deficits. Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience with educational interventions, particularly in developmental dyslexia contexts.

Scientific Recognition:

• FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012-2017)
• FCT-Investigator Starting Grant (2017-2021) with highest Career Development score
• FCT CEEC-Ind Individual Contract

She directs multiple FCT-funded projects including LEMON (2020-2024; €158,684) as Principal Investigator and VOrtEx (2018-2021; €183,590) as Co-PI. Her grant portfolio spans developmental dyslexia characterization, orthographic processing, and statistical learning deficits across eight funded projects since 2007.

As CO2 Group Coordinator, she integrates multiple research teams under CICPSI while maintaining collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics where she served as Visiting Researcher in 2015.