Hugo S. Gomes is a Fulbright scholar and post-doctoral researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas.
He completed a master’s degree in Criminal Psychology at ISPA-Instituto Universitário and a PhD in Applied Psychology at the University of Minho in collaboration with the Institute of Criminology – University of Cambridge, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
As part of his post-doctoral research at the Human Development and Violence Research Centre (DOVE – Federal University of Pelotas), Hugo Gomes investigates the development of criminal and violent behavior in several birth cohorts from Pelotas, Brazil. He was awarded the position of researcher at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (2023.07549.CEECIND) where he will develop the project ‘Advancing knowledge about causes of delinquent behavior: Within-individual and quasi-experimental evidence for the influence of delinquent peers using multiple cohort studies’.
His main research interests include understanding the development of criminal and violent behavior through the life course, crime prevention, and evaluating the impact of research methods on deviant behavior assessment.
He is an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology of the Faculty of Law – University of Porto (FDUP), responsible for the curricular units of ‘Antisocial and Criminal Behavior’ and ‘Social and Developmental Prevention’. Since 2022, he is a co-editor of the newsletter for the Division of Developmental and Life-course Criminology of the American Society of Criminology (ASC).