Meetings

Research Grants

• Research topic: Modeling and Optimization of Health Indicators (1/2025/BII/BioMath )

Selected candidate: Ana Filipa Vilhena

Advisors:  Cristiana Silva;  Jorge Cabral;  Sofia Pinheiro, Vera Afreixo; Paula Rama; José Pedro Antunes

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), within projects UIDP/04106/2025 and UIDB/04106/2025

• Research topic: Phenotype Prediction Tools Using Polygenic Risk Scores  (2/2025/BII/BioMath)

Selected candidate: Beatriz Monteiro

Advisors:  Luís Silva; Ana Helena Tavares, Vera Afreixo; Gabriela Moura

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), within projects UIDP/04106/2025 and UIDB/04106/2025

• Research topic: Clustering de dados biomédicos mistos (3/2025/BII/CIDMA )

Selected candidate: Beatriz Barbosa Lau Duarte

Advisors: Hugo Alonso; Adelaide Freitas;  Pedro Sá Couto

Funding: The Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications of University of Aveiro, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), within projects UIDP/04106/2025 and UIDB/04106/2025

Event communications 

• Monteiro, B., Tavares, A. H., Figueiredo, D., Afreixo, V., Silva, L., & Moura, G. (2025). Expanding the generalizability of a functional impairment polygenic risk score model across disease contexts using the UK Biobank data. In A. M. S. Silva & A. G. Andrade-Campos (Eds.), Research Summit 2025: Book of abstracts (p. 242). Universidade de Aveiro. https://doi.org/10.48528/6spv-r402 

• Silva, A. V., Silva, C. J., Cabral, J., Antunes, J. P., Rama, P., Pinheiro, S. J., & Afreixo, V. (2025). Evaluating the impact of the generalization of USF-B units in Portugal on key healthcare indicators. In A. M. S. Silva & A. G. Andrade-Campos (Eds.), Research Summit 2025: Book of abstracts (p. 245). Universidade de Aveiro. https://doi.org/10.48528/6spv-r402 

 VII Workshop in BioMathematics  

Invited Speakers: 

• Nuno S. Osório, Assistant Professor at the University of Minho's School of Medicine "Intelligent Omics: Reshaping Biomedical Analysis and Computational Approaches"

• Dulce Gomes, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Évora "Detecting Changes in Time Series"

• Carlos Ramos, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Évora "Ontogenesis and phylogenesis of discrete dynamical systems: generalizing cellular automata"

Contributed talks:

• Ana Vilhena, "Evaluating the Impact of the Generalization of USF-B Units in Portugal on Healthcare Indicators"

• Andreia Silva, "Spatial Analysis of Mortality from Malignant Neoplasms in Portugal"

• Beatriz Lau, "Novel Distance Measures for Clustering Mixed-Type Medical Data"

• Beatriz Monteiro, "Expanding the generalizability of a functional impairment PRS model across diseases"

• Pedro Caio, "Optimal Control of network compartemental models"

• Pedro Sousa, "Modeling HIV Dynamics with a SICA Probabilistic Cellular Automata Model"