Marta M. Marques is an Assistant Professor at the National School of Public Health – NOVA in the area of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a member of the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC) and a collaborator of the Centre for Behaviour Change (University College London, UK).
Her main area of research focuses on the development of methods and theories to advance behavioral science and their application in the development and evaluation of complex interventions (including digital ones) aimed at changing health behaviors in a public health context.
Over the years, she has participated in various expert committees (e.g. World Health Organization Be Health Be Mobile, Portuguese Task Force on Behavioral Sciences COVID-19). She was also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Health Psychology.
She has also held positions as a Senior Researcher (FCT CEEC) at the NOVA School of Medical Sciences (Portugal), as a Marie Curie fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), as a Research Associate at University College London (UK) and at the University of Newcastle (UK), and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Human Motricity of the University of Lisbon.
She is currently involved in several national and international consortium research projects (e.g. funded by Horizonte), as well as community outreach projects (e.g. Cities Changing Diabetes).
She holds a PhD in Health Psychology from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands (2015), a Master’s degree in Health Psychology from ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Portugal and a degree (pre-Bologna) in Applied Psychology (Clinical).
