Current Research Team
Tiago Gil Oliveira, MD/PhD
Tatiana Morais, PhD
Luísa Santa-Marinha, MD/PhD
Miguel Quintas-Neves, MD/PhD
Rafaela Morais-Ribeiro, MD/PhD student
Francisco Almeida, MD, PhD student
Ana Menezes, MD, PhD student
Alexandra Santos, PhD student (joint with Sébastien Mérieux, Neurospin)
Ricardo Morais, MD, PhD student (joint with Isabel Santana, U. Coimbra)
Tiago Jesus, PhD student (joint with Victor Alves, U. Minho)
Paulo Jorge Alves, PhD student (joint with Victor Alves, U. Minho)
Inês Ribeiro, MSc, PhD student (joint with Sandra Paiva, U. Minho & Anne-Claude Gavin, U. Gevena)
Cidália Pereira, PhD student (joint with Andreia Castro, U. Minho)
Ana Rita Fernandes, PhD student (joint with Lucía Chávez-Gutiérrez, VIB)
Marta Mendanha, MSc, Research Assistant
Carolina Sousa, MSc student (joint with Sara Calafate, U. Minho)
Mariana Ferreira, MSc student (joint with Sara Calafate, U. Minho)
Maria Clara Dutra (joint with Tatiana Morais, U. Minho)
Graduated PhD Students
Francisca Vaz Bravo, PharmD, PhD - 2012-2018 - Research Assistant and PhD student - currently Medical Student at University of Lisbon (started in 2019).
André Miguel Miranda, MD/PhD - 2014-2018 - PhD Student - currently Neuroradiology resident at Hospital de Vila Nova de Gaia (started in 2020); Invited Assistant Professor at University of Minho (started in 2022).
Daniel Machado, MD/PhD - 2013-2019 - PhD Student - currently Psychiatry resident at Hospital de Leiria (started in 2020).
João Carlos Gonçalves, MD/PhD - 2015-2019 - PhD Student - currently Gastroenterology resident at Hospital de Guimarães (started in 2021).
Luísa Santa-Marinha, MD/PhD - 2017-2021 - PhD Student - currently Psychiatry resident at Hospital de Vila Nova de Gaia (started in 2021).
Internal Collaborators within ICVS Research Line
Sara Calafate, PhD
Torcato Meira, MD/PhD
André Miguel Miranda, MD/PhD
Past Members
Isabel Castanho, MSc - 2013-2015 - BSc and MSc student - currently post-doc at Harvard Medical School, USA.
Rita Ribeiro Silva, MSc - 2014-2015 - Research Assistant
Fátima Solange, MSc - 2018-2020 - MSc student
Sofia Carvalho, MSc - 2019-2021 - MSc student
Cláudia Alves, MSc - 2019-2022 - MSc student
Cláudia Palma, MSc - 2021 - 2023 - MSc student
Paulo Jorge Alves, MSc - 2021 - 2023 - MSc student
Marcelo Dias, MSc - 2021 - 2024 - Research Assistant
Visiting Students/Research Trainees
Vítor Gonçalves, MSc student (joint with Sara Calafate, U. Minho)
Ana Barroso Miranda, MD
Renata Marques, MD
Ricardo Rosa, BSc
Filipa Paraíso, MD
Jorge Silva, MD/PhD student
Sara Tabbai, PhD student
Carolina Macedo, MD student