Eduardo López-Caneda is an Assistant Reseacher at the Psychological Neuroscience Lab, a unit of the Centro de Investigação em Psicologia (CIPsi), University of Minho, where he studies the neurocognitive consequences of substance abuse, with particular attention to binge drinking during adolscence and youth, using a myriad of methods such as electroencephalography (EEG), structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), neuropsychological tests and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). He graduated in 2014 with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Santiago de Compostela, University of A Coruña and University of Vigo. In 2016 he obtained a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) for conducting his research at CIPsi. In 2020 he obtained the position of Junior Researcher in the 2nd edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) and, in 2023, the position of Assistant Researcher in the 5th CEEC Edition. He is the principal investigator of three research projects, 2 funded by FCT and 1 funded by Cambridge Cognition (which total approximately 500.000€). This grants have led to the creation of the Research Group of Neuroscience of Substance Abuse (ReGreSA), a group that included and/or includes 3 postdocs, 4 PhD students, and 12 Master's students. He has 37 peer-reviewed papers published in JCR journals. He has an h index = 22, an i10 = 28 and a total of 1615 Google scholar citations (h index = 19 and 950 citations in Scopus). He has also published 4 book chapters, edited 2 books and participated in 75 conference presentations. In addition, he is Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and on the Editorial Board of Plos One. He also works as adhoc reviewer in several reference journals (e.g., Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging; Brain Topography; Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; PLoS One; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; European Journal of Health Psychology; International Journal of Psychophysiology). He has supervised 9 master students and 10 undergraduate students. Currently, he is the supervisor of 1 postdoctoral researcher, 2 PhD students, 3 master students and 1 research fellow. Since 2016, he taught in theoretical as well as in lab-based courses of Psychology and Neurosciences for degree, master and PhD students in the School of Psychology of the UM (e.g., Neuropsychology, Psychology of Perception, Psychopharmacology). He has received 8 awards: Portuguese Association of Experimental Psychology (APPE) 2024 Prize for the best article; IACOBUS Papers Award 2024 from European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC; European Union Program); CANTAB Research Grant 2023 Secondary Award (from Cambridge Cognition in 2023); ESBRA Poster Award for the best communication by the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (in 2021); European Foundation for Alcohol Research Travel Award (in 2016); Dr. Freixa Santfeliú Prize for the best communication by the Sociedad Científica Española de estudios sobre el Alcohol, el Alcoholismo y las otras Toxicomanías (in 2011, 2014 and 2016).