Executive Board

João Marôco, Ph.D. (Washington State University, 1998), is a Full Professor at Universidade Lusófona and a specialist in Statistics and Research Methods. A consultant for the World Bank and the Education Statistics Initiative, he served as a board member of IAVE, I.P., where he led large-scale educational assessment studies (PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, ICILS). With over 51,000 citations (Google Scholar H=79, i10=333), he ranks among the top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists (Stanford/Elsevier). Author of four books and more than 450 peer-reviewed articles, he lectures globally on Statistics and Education and frequently collaborates with the Portuguese media, being a prominent voice in psychometric and educational assessment.

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Articles:
Porto, M.G., Pimenta, F., Queiroz-Garcia, I. Uva, M., Patrone, M., Mascarenhas, T., & Marôco, J. (2025). Assessing Self-Management Coping in Urinary Incontinence: Psychometric Evaluation of the UI-SMCSI in Middle-Aged Women. International Urogynecology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-025-06274-z

Hanssen, N. B., Valle, A. M., Lagestad, P., Tverbakk, M. L., & Marôco, J. (2025). A survey of teachers’ self-reported competence regarding mathematical learning disabilities in Norwegian dyslexia-friendly schools. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2025.2514139

Faiad, C., Marôco, J., Tavares, H., Hodgins, D., & Matsunaga, L. H. (2025). Brazilian version of the Brief Screener for Substance and Behavioral Addiction. Frontiers in Psychology , 16, 1642665. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1642665

I hold a PhD in Human Resources Management and Development from ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Currently, I work as an Associate Professor at the School of Economic Sciences and Organizations (ECEO, Universidade Lusófona), and a Guest Professor at ISCTE Executive Education.
I also serve as an Associate Editor at the Spanish Journal of Psychology, and Team Performance Management: An International Journal. My research interests regard leadership and teamwork in extreme environments (e.g., healthcare; firefighting; polar regions), and small groups as complex adaptive systems. On this regard, since I obtained my PhD in 2015, I published over twenty research papers in Q1 and Q2 journals (SCOPUS). Furthermore, during the last eight years, I won two highly competitive postdoc grants funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, worth 53.640€ (e.g., SFRH/BPD/114934/2016); was Principal Investigator of four competitive research projects, with national funding from the Portuguese Polar Program, worth 4.000 € plus logistic support two stay in Antarctica over 1-month, and international funding from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (worth 10.000$; NTR-INGRoup 19 » ranked 3rd out of 23 applications), and the European Space Agency (worth 41.700€). I was also a Team Member in two international research projects with funding from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, worth 20.000£ (SCAR COVID-19 Project), and the European Space Agency, worth 10.000CHF (AO-2017-Concordia_014_Cantisani). My work has been published in journals such as Group & Organization Management, the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, The Journal of Psychology, Leadership, and Small Group Research. Recently, I led two scientific expeditions to King George Island (Antarctica), and my research has received the attention of national (e.g., Diário de Notícias) and international (e.g., Wall Street Journal) media.

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Projects

Titulo: A Social Network Approach to Human Dynamics in Extreme Work Environments 4 (HD-ICE 4).
Principal investigator: Dr. Pedro Marques-Quinteiro (Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal).Research team: Dr. Jan B. Schmutz (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Dr. Andrea Cantisani (University Hospital of Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland), and Prof. Ciro Cattuto (University of Torino, Italy).
Funding agencies: Portuguese Space Agency (PSA); European Space Agency (ESA).
Reference:  PR-23-01.
Duration: 3 years (01/03/2024 – 01/03/2027).
Funding: 41700,00 euros.
Summary: This project aims to test the applicability of sociometric badges to assess, in real time, variables such as social cohesion and isolation. This project also aims to test the extent to which reflection can be used as a collective process of self-regulation to promote the performance and psychological well-being of team members involved in long-term missions during the winter in Antarctica. The lessons learned from this project could provide clues about the training and behavior of teams of astronauts who will return to the Moon in 2024 and who will make their first trip to Mars within the decade.

Articles:
Marques-Quinteiro, P., Schmutz, J. B., Antino, M., Maynard, M. T., & Eppich, W. J. (2025). A process model of team effectiveness in extreme environments. Applied Psychology, 74(5), e70037. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.70037

Vargas, R. J., Santos, O., Fialho, M., Costa, J., Eifler, N., Marques-Quinteiro, P., & Curral, L. (2025). Lead yourself to the zone and be happy: The effect of self-leadership development on flow and happiness. PLoS ONE, 20(9), e0331673. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331673

Marques-Quinteiro, P., Schmutz, J. B., Antino, M., Eppich, W. J., & Maynard, M. T. (2024). Event Characteristics and Team Adaptation in Extreme Contexts: Evidence from an Antarctic Summer Campaign. Group and Organization Management, 50(5-6), 1736-1786. https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011241287945