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RENATO DUARTE (ORCID: 0000-0001-6099-667X) is a researcher at the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal (CNC-UC), working in the domain of systems and computational neuroscience, under the thematic line "Neuroscience and Disease" at the Associate Laboratory CIBB - Center for Innovative Biomedicina and Biotechnology. With a joint doctoral degree in Computational Neuroscience from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Edinburgh (confered in 2018, as part of the Erasmus Mundus joint doctoral program EuroSPIN), he conducted his doctoral research under the guidance of Abigail Morrison (Forschungszentrum Jülich), including several mobility periods and research stays at the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh (hosted by Peggy Sèries, Matthias Hennig and Mark van Rossum), the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr-University Bochum (hosted by Sen Cheng) and the Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics (Neurobiology of Language group, hosted by Peter Hagoort and Karl Magnus Petersson). After completing his doctoral degree with highest honours (summa cum laude), he became a PostDoctoral researcher at the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. He later served as an Assistant Professor at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and researcher at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior. His primary focus is on learning and memory in neocortical circuits, with a strong emphasis on synaptic plasticity and population dynamics. His research aims to bridge circuit architecture (particularly biochemical composition), dynamics and information processing. Despite being at an early career stage, he has made substantial contributions to the field, as evidenced by over 22 peer-reviewed publications, including in high-impact journals (PNAS, Journal of Physiology or eLife). As a mentor, he has supervised 5 MSc theses and co-supervised 4 PhD theses across multiple programs and institutions. He has taught various courses across different Universities and Faculties and is a very dedicated and engaged researcher and mentor, according to peer feedback. He has participated as an affiliated researcher in 3 international consortia, led 2 large computing projects at the Jülich Supercomputing Center and an FCT Exploratory Project. His expertise in the field are internationally recognized as demonstrated by regular peer-review and editorial invitations to prominent journals, guest lecturing invitations to important international meetings and an international award in recognition of his doctoral research. He has also organized international workshops and tutorials and is a well established researcher in the fields of computational neuroscience, neuroAI and neuro-inspired computing.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
RENATO CARLOS FARINHA DUARTE

Citation names

  • Duarte, Renato
  • Renato Carlos Farinha Duarte
  • Renato Carlos F Duarte
  • Renato C F Duarte

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0316-A9B4-70CA
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6099-667X
Google Scholar ID
NeD4kokAAAAJ
Researcher Id
N-6981-2013
Scopus Author Id
56395014100

Email addresses

  • renato.duarte@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Larga, Edificio FMUC, Piso 2, 3004–504, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011 - 2018/05/03
Concluded
 Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral program in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience (EuroSPIN) (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

The University of Edinburgh Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, United Kingdom

University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany
"State-dependent processing with Spiking Neural Networks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2009/10 - 2011/08
Concluded
 Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
"Self-organized sequence processing in a recurrent neural network with multiple interacting plasticity mechanisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2009
Concluded
 Pharmaceutical Sciences (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
 12
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2018 - 2021 Postdoc (Research) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
2018/10 - 2020/08 Visiting Researcher (Research) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
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2014/09 - 2018/08 Researcher (Research) Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
2013/04 - 2014/08 Visiting Researcher (Research) Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft, Germany
2011/09 - 2014/08 Researcher (Research) Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/10 - 2023/09 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
Radboud Universiteit Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Netherlands
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/02/20 - 2026/08/19 Compartmentalized learning with coupled electrochemical adaptation
2023.13758.PEX
176597PRJ
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2011/09 - 2014/08 EuroSPIN - European Study Programme In Neuroinformatics
-
PhD Student Fellow
European Commission
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/01 - Current DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders
952422
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2022/02 - 2023/09 Dutch Brain Interfaces Initiative (DBI2)
DBI2
Researcher
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ongoing
2015 - 2018 Supercomputing and modeling for the Human brain (SMHB)
SMHB
Researcher
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

Helmholtz-Konsortium, Germany
Helmholtz-Konsortium
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2019/05 - 2021/10 Functional Neural Architectures
jinm60
Principal investigator
Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
 Helmholtz-Konsortium
Concluded
2015/05 - 2018/04 Synaptic timescales and online processing memory
jias61
Principal investigator
Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
 Helmholtz-Konsortium
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Korcsak-Gorzo, Agnes; Linssen, Charl; Albers, Jasper; Dasbach, Stefan; Duarte, Renato; Kunkel, Susanne; Morrison, Abigail; et al. "Phenomenological Modeling of Diverse and Heterogeneous Synaptic Dynamics at Natural Density". In New Aspects in Analyzing the Synaptic Organization of the Brain, 277-321. Springer US, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-1-0716-4019-7_15
Conference paper
  1. Quaresima, Alessio; Fitz, Hartmut; DUARTE, RENATO; Hagoort, Peter; Petersson, Karl Magnus. "Dendritic non-linearity supports the formation and reactivation of word memories as cell assemblies". Paper presented in 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023), Marseille, 2023.
    Published
  2. DUARTE, RENATO; Uhlmann, Marvin; Broek, Dick Van Den; Fitz, Hartmut; Petersson, Karl Magnus; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Encoding symbolic sequences with spiking neural reservoirs". Paper presented in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rio de Janeiro, 2018.
    Published • 10.1109/ijcnn.2018.8489114
  3. Zajzon, Barna; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Zajzon, Barna. "Transferring State Representations in Hierarchical Spiking Neural Networks". 2018.
    10.1109/ijcnn.2018.8489135
  4. Broek, Dick van den; Uhlmann, Marvin; DUARTE, RENATO; Fitz, Hartmut; Hagoort, Peter; Petersson, Karl Magnus. Corresponding author: Broek, Dick van den. "The best spike filter kernel is a neuron". Paper presented in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), NYC, 2017.
    Published
  5. DUARTE, RENATO; Seriès, Peggy; Morrison, Abigail. "Self-Organized Artificial Grammar Learning in Spiking Neural Networks". Paper presented in 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec, 2014.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Barros, Ana Beatriz Matos; Duarte, Renato. Corresponding author: Duarte, Renato. "Compartment-specific calcium dynamics in a neuron model with minimal dendritic structure". Paper presented in 5th Workshop on Neuroengineering: AI in Neuroscience, 2025.
  2. Zajzon, Barna; Morrison, Abigail; Duarte, Renato. "Information transfer in modular spiking networks". Paper presented in Advanced Methods in Theoretical Neuroscience, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Quaresima, Alessio; Fitz, Hartmut; Hagoort, Peter; Duarte, Renato. Corresponding author: Quaresima, Alessio. "Nonlinear dendritic integration supports Up-Down states in single neurons". The Journal of Neuroscience 45 26 (2025): e1701242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1701-24.2025.
    Published • 10.1101/2024.09.05.611249
  2. Han-Jia Jiang; Guanxiao Qi; Renato Duarte; Dirk Feldmeyer; Sacha J van Albada; DUARTE, RENATO. "A layered microcircuit model of somatosensory cortex with three interneuron types and cell-type-specific short-term plasticity". Cerebral Cortex (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae378.
    10.1093/cercor/bhae378
  3. Schulte to Brinke, Tobias; Dick, Michael; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. "A refined information processing capacity metric allows an in-depth analysis of memory and nonlinearity trade-offs in neurocomputational systems". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37604-0.
    Published • 10.1038/s41598-023-37604-0
  4. Zajzon, Barna; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. "Toward reproducible models of sequence learning: replication and analysis of a modular spiking network with reward-based learning". Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 17 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.935177.
    Published • 10.3389/fnint.2023.935177
  5. Barna Zajzon; David Dahmen; Abigail Morrison; DUARTE, RENATO. "Signal denoising through topographic modularity of neural circuits". eLife (2023): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77009.
    10.7554/eLife.77009
  6. Quaresima, Alessio; Fitz, Hartmut; DUARTE, RENATO; Broek, Dick van den; Hagoort, Peter; Petersson, Karl Magnus. "The Tripod neuron: a minimal structural reduction of the dendritic tree". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/18925.
    10.1113/JP283399
  7. Schulte to Brinke, Tobias; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. "Characteristic columnar connectivity caters to cortical computation: Replication, simulation, and evaluation of a microcircuit model". Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 16 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.923468.
    Published • 10.3389/fnint.2022.923468
  8. Weidel, Philipp; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Weidel, Philipp. "Unsupervised Learning and Clustered Connectivity Enhance Reinforcement Learning in Spiking Neural Networks". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 15 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2021.543872.
    10.3389/fncom.2021.543872
  9. Hartmut Fitz; Marvin Uhlmann; Dick van den Broek; DUARTE, RENATO; Peter Hagoort; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Neuronal spike-rate adaptation supports working memory in language processing". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 34 (2020): 20881-20889. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000222117.
    10.1073/pnas.2000222117
  10. Claudia Bachmann; Stefan Rotter; Tom Tetzlaff; DUARTE, RENATO; Abigail Morrison. "Firing rate homeostasis counteracts changes in stability of recurrent neural networks caused by synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease". PLOS Computational Biology 16 8 (2020): e1007790-e1007790. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007790.
    10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007790
  11. Zajzon, Barna; Mahmoudian, Sepehr; Morrison, Abigail; DUARTE, RENATO. Corresponding author: Zajzon, Barna. "Passing the Message: Representation Transfer in Modular Balanced Networks". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 13 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2019.00079.
    10.3389/fncom.2019.00079
  12. DUARTE, RENATO; Abigail Morrison. "Leveraging heterogeneity for neural computation with fading memory in layer 2/3 cortical microcircuits". PLOS Computational Biology 15 4 (2019): e1006781-e1006781. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006781.
    10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006781
  13. DUARTE, RENATO; Alexander Seeholzer; Karl Zilles; Abigail Morrison. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Synaptic patterning and the timescales of cortical dynamics". Current Opinion in Neurobiology 43 (2017): 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2017.02.007.
    10.1016/j.conb.2017.02.007
  14. Weidel, Philipp; Djurfeldt, Mikael; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Weidel, Philipp. "Closed Loop Interactions between Spiking Neural Network and Robotic Simulators Based on MUSIC and ROS". Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 10 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2016.00031.
    10.3389/fninf.2016.00031
  15. Weidel, Philipp; Duarte, Renato; Korvasová, Karolína; Jitsev, Jenia; Morrison, Abigail. "ROS-MUSIC toolchain for spiking neural network simulations in a robotic environment". BMC Neuroscience 16 S1 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-16-s1-p169.
    Published • 10.1186/1471-2202-16-s1-p169
  16. DUARTE, RENATO. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Expansion and State-Dependent Variability along Sensory Processing Streams". The Journal of Neuroscience 35 19 (2015): 7315-7316. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0874-15.2015.
    10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0874-15.2015
  17. Toledo-Suárez, Carlos; DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: Toledo-Suárez, Carlos. "Liquid computing on and off the edge of chaos with a striatal microcircuit". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 8 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2014.00130.
    10.3389/fncom.2014.00130
  18. DUARTE, RENATO; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Dynamic stability of sequential stimulus representations in adapting neuronal networks". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 8 124 (2014): http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00124/abstract.
    10.3389/fncom.2014.00124
  19. DUARTE, RENATO; Seriès, Peggy; Morrison, Abigail. "Temporal sequence learning via adaptation in biologically plausible spiking neural networks". BMC Neuroscience 15 S1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-15-s1-p85.
    10.1186/1471-2202-15-s1-p85
  20. DUARTE, RENATO; Seriès, Peggy; Morrison, Abigail. Corresponding author: DUARTE, RENATO. "Syntax processing properties of generic cortical circuits". BMC Neuroscience 14 S1 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p283.
    10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p283
Newspaper article
  1. Duarte, Renato. Corresponding author: Duarte, Renato. "Entre Neurónios e Algoritmos: A Linguagem como Computação", CAMPEÃO DAS PROVÍNCIAS, 2025, Actualidade, https://www.campeaoprovincias.pt/pdf/CampeaodasProvincias1282.pdf.
Preprint
  1. Barna Zajzon; Younes Bouhadjar; Maxime Fabre; Felix Schmidt; Noah Ostendorf; Emre Neftci; Abigail Morrison; Renato Duarte. "SymSeqBench: a unified framework for the generation and analysis of rule-based symbolic sequences and datasets". 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24977.
    10.48550/ARXIV.2512.24977
  2. Alessio Quaresima; Hartmut Fitz; DUARTE, RENATO; Peter Hagoort; Karl Magnus Petersson. "Dendrites support formation and reactivation of sequential memories through Hebbian plasticity". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.26.559322.
    10.1101/2023.09.26.559322
  3. Barna Zajzon; Renato Duarte; Abigail Morrison. "Towards reproducible models of sequence learning: replication and analysis of a modular spiking network with reward-based learning". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.18.524604.
    10.1101/2023.01.18.524604
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "State-dependent Processing in Spiking Neural Networks". PhD, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2128/19337.
  2. Duarte, Renato. "Self-organized sequence processing in recurrent neural networks with multiple interacting plasticity mechanisms". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/3786.
Website
  1. Duarte, Renato. Corresponding author: Duarte, Renato. Grounded. 2026. https://groundedneuro.substack.com/.
  2. Duarte, Renato. Corresponding author: Duarte, Renato. Computational Neuroscience & Neural Computation (CNNC). 2025. https://www.comp-neuro.org/.

Other

Other output
  1. Neurocurios@s. Book project focused on scientific questions and curiosity made by childrenand answered by scientists. 2024. Ricciardi, Flavia; Cristina Marquez; Madeira, Natália; Canijo, Bárbara; Sarnicola, Ilaria; Sandra Pinhosos; Duarte, Renato; Esteve-Agraz, Joan.
Software
  1. Renato Duarte. "MEA-Flow: Neural Population Dynamics Analysis for Multi-Electrode Arrays". 2025.
    10.5281/ZENODO.18101938
  2. DUARTE, RENATO; Zajzon, Barna; Morrison, Abigail. "Functional Neural Architectures". 2021.
    10.5281/zenodo.5648150
  3. Nagendra Babu, Pooja; Linssen, Charl; Eppler, Jochen Martin; Schulte to Brinke, Tobias; Ziaeemehr, Abolfazl; Fardet, Tanguy; Bouhadjar, Younes; et al. "NESTML 4.0". 2021.
    10.5281/zenodo.3697733
  4. DUARTE, RENATO; Zajzon, Barna; Morrison, Abigail. "Neural Microcircuit Simulation And Analysis Toolkit". 2017.
    10.5281/zenodo.594850
  5. Duarte, Renato. "NEST 2.8.0". 2015.
    10.5281/zenodo.32969
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/09 Rule-based decision-making European Social Club
European Society for Social Neuroscience (Coimbra, Portugal)
2025/03/12 Computational Neuroscience & Neural Computation Promotional event for the new MSc program in AI, FCTUC
Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2025/03/05 Computational Neuroscience & Neural Computation Café com Física
Physics Department, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/12/16 Cortical circuit modeling: towards an integrative multiscale approach 3rd Annual Meeting of CIBIT
Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/02/05 Sequential metastability and cognitive computation SPN Research Talks
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Portugal)
2021/05 The neocortical synaptome: modular temporal specialization through molecular specialization Umbrella Symposium: Data Analytics, Neuroscience and Multiscale Biomedical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
2021/04 The biophysical bases of temporal specialization and variable processing memory Bordeaux Neuro-Symposium
INRIA Bordeaux (Bordeauz, France)
2019/05 State-dependent sequence processing with Spiking Neural Networks NII Shonan Symposium no. 141: Language as Goal-Directed Sequential Behavior: Computational Theories, Brain Mechanisms, Evolutionary Roots
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) (Kanagawa, Japan)
2018/07 Encoding Symbolic sequences with Spiking Neural Reservoirs International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
IEEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2018/05 State-dependent processing in Spiking Neural Networks Distinguished Seminars
Center for Biomedical Research (CBMR) (Faro, Portugal)
2017/09 Leveraging heterogeneity for neural computation with fading memory in layer 2/3 cortical microcircuits Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD)
UCL (Capbreton, France)
2014/12 Synaptic adaptation stabilizes sequential stimulus representations 7th International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization
Albert-Ludvigs University Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
2014/11/27 Dynamic stimulus representations in adapting neuronal networks Human Brain Project (HBP) Workshop: Stochastic Neural Computation
European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) (Paris, France)
2014/07 Self-Organized Artificial Grammar Learning in Spiking Neural Networks 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Cognitive Science Society (Quebec, Canada)
2013/05 Syntax processing properties of generic cortical cirucuits Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting on The Brain as a Self-Organized Dynamical System
Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance (OCCAM) (Osnabrück, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/11 - Current Learning from the brain: Exploring neo-Hebbian plasticity and memory replay in reinforcement learning
Supervisor
 Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Master)
Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, Netherlands
2020/02 - 2024/07/12 A bridge not too far: Neurobiological causal models of word recognition
Co-supervisor
 Psycholinguistics (PhD)
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2020/06 - 2024/05/08 Sequential information processing in modular spiking networks
Co-supervisor
 Computational Neuroscience (PhD)
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
2019/01 - 2024/01/12 Analysis of information processing and memory prerequisites for temporal difference learning in cortical neural network models
Co-supervisor
 Computational Neuroscience (PhD)
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
2022/02 - 2023/09 Neuron Model Complexity: Exploiting the richness of single neuron dynamics in spiking neural networks
Supervisor
 Artificial Inteligence (Master)
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2020/01 - 2021/08/30 Modeling corticostriatal populations using Spiking Neural Networks
Co-supervisor
 Cognitive Neuroscience (Master)
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/09/02 - 2025/09/12 Summer School in Computational Biology (course co-organizer, host, lecturer and tutor of Computational Neuroscience day) (2025/09/02 - 2025/09/12)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/09/04 - 2024/09/13 Computational Biology Summer School (Project supervisor and tutor) (2024/09/04 - 2024/09/13)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/04/03 - 2023/04/03 Donders workshop on "Dendritic Computation" (2023/04/03 - 2023/04/03)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
2020/07/18 - 2020/07/18 New interfaces for teaching with NEST: hands-on with the NEST-Desktop GUI and NESTML code generation, tutorial session at the 29th Annual Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS-2020) (2020/07/18 - 2020/07/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2012/09/03 - 2012/09/05 iCoNet PhD Conference (2012/09/03 - 2012/09/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/12/18 - 2025/12/18 Annual CiBB meeting (attendance and participation)
Seminar
 CiBB Meeting 2025
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
2025/06/05 - 2025/06/06 Kempner Institute Symposium in "Frontiers in NeuroAI"
Symposium
 Frontiers in NeuroAI
Harvard University, United States
2025/05/22 - 2025/05/22 Presentation at Annual Retreat of the CiBB
Symposium
 7th CiBB Retreat: "The resilient Brain"
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
2025/04/29 - 2025/04/30 Attendance and Participation on Workshop on the application of Symbolic Regression tools to model discovery in the physical sciences
Workshop
 Symbolic Regression in the Physical Sciences
The Royal Society, United Kingdom
2025/03/08 - 2025/03/08 Guest Lecture and Tutorial on Computational Neuroscience to National Meeting of Biomedical Engineering students
Workshop
 National Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Students (ENEEB 2025)
Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2024/11/21 - 2024/11/21 CISUC Science and Technology Week: "The Future in Action" (Invited Lecture)
Seminar
 Semana da Ciência e da Tecnologia 2024
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
2024/09/29 - 2024/10/02 Oral and Poster presentations on "Biophysical models of sequence learning"
Conference
 Bernstein Conference
BERNSTEIN AG, Germany
2019/09/04 - 2019/09/05 Cognomics: Bridging gaps from genes to cognition
Conference
 Cognomics
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
2019/02/26 - 2019/02/26 Neuroanatomical foundations of cortical computation
Conference
 Neuroanatomical foundations of cortical computation
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
2018/10/23 - 2018/10/26 Quantitative approaches to behavior and neural systems
Conference
 Champalimaud Research Symposium
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2018/07/08 - 2018/07/13 Advances in Reservoir Computing
Workshop
 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2018/02/27 - 2018/02/27 Cognitive Computation Symposium (CoCoSym): Thinking beyond Deep Learning
Symposium
City University of London, United Kingdom
2017/09/07 - 2017/09/08 Integrated Systems Neuroscience (ISN)
Conference
The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2017/09 - 2017/09 Computational Psychiatry Course
Seminar
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
2016/09/18 - 2016/09/20 Hierarchical Processing Advanced Course
Seminar
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2015/09/05 - 2015/09/10 Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD)
Conference
 NCCD 2015
2014/06/07 - 2014/06/08 Practical brain network modeling with The Virtual Brain (TVB)
Workshop
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2013/06/24 - 2013/07/05 Advanced statistics and data mining summer school
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Facultad de Informática, Spain

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/10/03 On the potential of bio-inspired neural models for epileptic seizure detection and forecasting
Supervisor
 Valentin Johannes Rudolf Haberl (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2025/07/08 Neurocomputational Modeling of the Human color vision system
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Chiara Clima (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Física, Portugal
2025/03/28 A workflow for developing biochemical pathway models using ordinary differential equations
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Pedro Gomes dos Santos (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/09 - Current European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Member
2021/09 - Current The ALBA network for diversity and equity in the brain sciences Member
2012/06 - Current Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS) Member
2012 - Current Bernstein Association Member
2006 - 2012 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/05 - Current Neuronal Circuits and Behavior (Guest Lecturer) Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2024/01/31 - Current Synapse assembly, function and plasticity (Guest Lecturer) Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2025/10/10 - 2026/01/30 Scientific Programming Doctoral training course (organizer, lecturer and tutor) Integrative Neuroscience (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2026/01/05 - 2026/01/09 PDBEB+idpIN Advanced Course: "Synapse Assembly, Function and Plasticity" (Guest Lecturer) Biologia Experimental e Biomedicina, Neurociência Integrativa (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2025/02/10 - 2025/02/15 Neuronal Circuits & Behavior (Organizer) Programa Doutoral em Biologia Experimental e Biomedicina (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2025/01/06 - 2025/01/06 Synapse Assembly, Function and Plasticity (Guest Lecturer) Biologia Experimental e Biomedicina (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2024/12/02 - 2024/12/02 Neural Circuits & Behavior (Guest lecture) Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Neural Computation Neural Computation (Master) Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2021 - 2023 Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement Learning (Bachelor) Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2021 - 2021 Neural Information Processing Systems (guest lecturer) Neural Information Processing Systems (Master) Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2020/03/04 - 2020/03/13 Computational Neuroscience Spring School in Computational Neuroscience (Doktor (PhD)) European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN), France
2013 - 2017 Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python Psicologia (Bachelor) Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Psychologie, Germany

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2021/10 - 2023/10 Examination and evaluation committee for Bachelor thesis, BSc program in Artificial Intelligence
Evaluator
 Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2021/10 - 2023/10 Supervision and evaluation of BSc theses projects in the BSc program in Artificial Intelligence
Coordinator
 Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2018/10 - 2023/10 Daily supervision, assessment and evaluation of Master theses projects, MSc programs in Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive Computing specialization) and Computer Science (neuro-inspired computing specialization)
Coordinator
 Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Fachgruppe Informatik, Germany
2018 - 2023 Evaluation and examination committee for Master theses projects, MSc program in Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive Computing specialization) and MSc program in Computer Science (Neuro-inspired Computing specialization)
Evaluator
 Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Fachgruppe Informatik, Germany

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2015 - Current PLoS Computational Biology Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2024/03/08 - 2025/02/28 Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (1662-5188) Frontiers
2017 - 2017 Brain Structure and Function Springer Heidelberg

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/09 - Current PhD Thesis project "Cortico-cortical connectivity: Towards improved pre-surgical mapping" Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Imagem Biomédica e Investigação Translacional, Portugal
2025/09 - Current PhD Thesis Project "Modeling Pathological and Physiological Neural processes of Visual Attention in Epilepsy" Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Imagem Biomédica e Investigação Translacional, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 Educational innovation award: Combination of classic theory with modern tools and applications
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
2020 Umbrella award for doctoral dissertation
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany

Title

2018 Summa cum laude for doctoral dissertation
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany