Who we are

The Young Researchers Group brings together all MA and PhD students of CLUNL. It was created in April 2006. Its main aim is to provide a place for scientific discussion among young researchers of CLUNL and to make available to the scientific community recent research and ongoing work in the field of Linguistics.

He has a degree in Translation from NOVA FCSH and a postgraduate degree in Globalisation, Diplomacy and Security from NOVA FCSH in partnership with IUM. Master in Language Sciences, specialising in Terminology and Specialised Information Management. Master’s student in Political Science and International Relations and PhD student in Linguistics: Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, both at NOVA FCSH. His doctoral thesis will be a continuation of his master’s dissertation, the topic of which is terminology in the military sciences. He was awarded a research grant for the MORDIGITAL project (PTDC/LLT-LIN/6841/2020).


PhD student in Linguistics focusing on Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology at NOVA FCSH under the supervision of Professor Raquel Amaro and Professor Matilde Gonçalves. She holds a Master’s degree in Language Sciences with a specialization in Terminology and Specialty Information Management from the same institution. She was a research fellow in the EXPRIMI project (UIDB/03213/2020) in which she developed her master’s thesis entitled “Text mining for the detection of linguistic traits of inclusiveness: analysis of texts used in the reception and integration of migrant people”.


She has a degree in Translation and a master’s degree in Translation with a specialization in English from NOVA FCSH. She has a specialization course in Translation Practices and Technologies from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in Language Sciences, specialization area in Terminology and Specialty Information Management. She is a researcher on the project Horizon Europa: HetERogeneous sEmantic Data integratIon for the guT-bRain interplaY [Grant agreement ID: 101137074].


PhD student in Linguistics and Language Teaching, with a research project in Portuguese as a Heritage Language. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature – Portuguese Studies, from the University of Lisbon and a Master’s degree in Portuguese as a Second/Foreign Language from the University of Porto. She is a teacher of Portuguese language in Secondary school and has collaborated with Camões, I.P., in Portuguese Courses for foreigners, since 2012. She was a Lecturer at Instituto Camões in New Jersey. She has worked in the development of teaching materials, being the co-author of several workbooks of Portuguese as a foreign language, for general and specific purposes.


Ricardo is a PhD student in the branch of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology. His MA’s dissertation was developped in the context of the topic of Textual Complexity through the creation of a framework for gauging complexity in texts. Beyond this topic of interest, his PhD project revolves around Computational Linguistics, namely the modelization of Metaphor.


Ronan Pereira holds a master’s degree in Sciences of Languages and currently is a PhD student in Linguistics – Psycholinguistics. He has been working as a language teacher (English and Spanish) for over eight years, teaching face-to-face and online classes for adults. Courses taken include CELTA and Post-Graduation in Teaching Methodology, as well as language and education related short courses. His fields of study are language acquisition and dialectology, especially in what concerns L2 and D2 acquisition.


Victoria Isrigova

She is a PhD student in Psycholinguistics at the University of Porto, supported by an FCT grant at CLUNL and CLUP. My research focuses on second language acquisition through experimental methods. Before moving into linguistics, she studied Law at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the University of Turin, and later gained teaching experience in Spain and at CLIP – Colégio Luso-Internacional do Porto.