Sofia dos Santos

Sofia dos Santos (b. 69) is an Associate Professor in Social Cognition at the University of Lisbon. She has a PhD in Social Psychology from University of Lisbon (2007). In 2012 she was in a sabbatical residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US, collaborating with Keith Payne on stereotype research.. Her work has been published over the years in several international scientific journals.. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Santos230)


Apart from working as a scientist, Sofia has been working as a visual artist since 2015.

Lives and works in Lisbon..


Solo Exhibitions

Limping Across an Invisible Line, Mario Casimiro Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016.

Melting Neighborhood, Geological Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 April - 30 April, 2017. 

Winding,​ National Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal, 15 September - 13 October, 2018.

Sofia dos Santos & Nicollò Rossi, Porto Cruz Gallery, Gaia, 17 November - 14 January 2018


Group Shows

Centerpiece ISPA (Five Visual Artists: Malangatana, Rogério Ribeiro, Teresa Magalhães, Rogério Mourtada, e Sofia dos Santos). Mário Casimiro Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, February to September, 2017

Ventozelo Group Show, Quinta de Ventozelo Gallery, November 2019 


Artist's Books
​Melting Neighborhood, Lisbon, 2017. 


Prizes and Grants

2009 – Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Research ISPA Prize, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida

2015 - Research granted project “Interactions between retrieval and present or subsequent learning”, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

2012 – Sabbatical grant spent at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

2010 – Research granted project “Spontaneous trait inferences in context: Proposal of a new theoretical framework”, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

2009 – Research granted project “The Paradox of Stereotypes and other Beliefs: Enduring, Self-Perpetuating but Context-Dependent – Exploring a New Model”, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

2008 – Research granted project "Situated Social Cognition", Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

2006 – Research granted project "Proposal of a dual-process Architecture for Social Cognition", Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

2003 – Research granted project “Diffuse Social Cognition: New hypothesis about the dynamic nature of social knowledge structures”, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

1996 – Research grant, Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

1991 – ERASMUS mobility grant spent at University of Barcelona, Portuguese Government