CV

Full-time Research Positions

12.2022 - 11.2025

Assistant Research Scientist

Project: 'BRAINSTIM: Predicting stimulation strategies to modulate interactions between brain areas.'

Funded by the La Caixa Foundation, Spain

ICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute

School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal

05.2019 - 11.2022

Assistant Research Scientist

Individual Project: 'Impact of patho-connectomics in neuropsychiatric disorders:

Targeting disrupted functional networks to rebalance brain dynamics'

Funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT, Portugal

ICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute

School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal

07.2017 - 04.2019

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Project: FONTHERA - Frontiers in Theranostics

ICVS - Life and Health Sciences Research Institute

School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal

10.2014 – 07.2017

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

European Project (ERC): CAREGIVING

Project Leader: Prof. Morten L. Kringelbach

Hedonia Transnational Research Group

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK

07.2012 – 09.2014

Postdoctoral Researcher

European Project (ERC): DYSTRUCTURE

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Deco

Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Group,

Center of Brain and Cognition,

Barcelona, Spain

Visiting Research Positions

01.2016 - Present

Visiting Researcher

Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

08.2017 - Present

Visiting Researcher

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK

01.2016 - Present

Visiting Researcher

Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark

Education and Training

03.2008 – 07.2012

PhD in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

Thesis: “Brain Activity during Rest: a signature of the underlying Network Dynamics”

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Deco

Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

03.2011 – 06.2011

3-month in UK within the European PhD program

Prof. Dr. Morten Kringelbach

University of Oxford, UK

06.2002 – 07.2007

5-year degree in Biomedical Engineering (BSc + MSc, 300 ECTS)

Faculty of Science and Technology, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal

03.2007 – 06.2007

Internship for master thesis research

Thesis: “Comparing EEG and fMRI Methods for Epileptic Source Localization”

Supervisor: Dr. Alberto Leal and Prof. Dr. Mario Forjaz Secca

Department of Neurophysiology, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisbon, Portugal

09.2005 – 02.2006

Erasmus at Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Practical training

11.2007 – 02.2008

Cancer Research using Laser Spectroscopy

Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India

10.2006 – 02.2007

Research Assistant of the Physics Department

Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon

Educational Courses

August 2009

Computational Vision Course

European Initial Training Network CODDE

Rauischholzhausen, Germany

June 2009

Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course

Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology, Japan

June 2008

Mini-school on multiple time scales in the dynamics of the nervous system

International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

July 2005

Summer Course on Robotics

Board of European Students of Technology

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

July 2003

Biomedical Engineering Summer Course

Board of European Students of Technology

Technical University of Lodz, Poland