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João Duarte do Nascimento Dias Afonso. Completed the Master's in Biomedical Engineering in 2024 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, and it's Bachelor's in Biomedical Engineering in 2022. It works as a Contracted Researcher in ITI/LARSyS. Did an ERASMUS program in Liège University in 2023. Won two investigation grants as a result of his Master's Thesis project from Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia(SPO) and Grupo de Estudos da Retina(GER). Has received a total of 6 awards and/or honors.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Duarte do Nascimento Dias Afonso

Citation names

  • Duarte Afonso, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
681A-8110-8802

Email addresses

  • jaoaafonso11@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (351) 966209701 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Hub Criativo do Beato, Factory Lisbon Rua da Manutenção 71, Edifício F, S05 , 1900-500, Beato, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
  • Rua cesário verde Nº78 1ºesq, 2790-494, Queijas, Oeiras, Portugal (Personal)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/09/15 - 2024/12/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado)
Major in Imagiologia, Biossinais e Instrumentação Biomédica
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Automatic OCT-based detection of Inherited Retinal Diseases" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16,3
2019/09/01 - 2022/07/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Library of Functions for Collision Detection with applications in Biomechanics." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15,4
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/02/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - 2025/12/31 1801P.01233 - eGames CC931101 - Contrato Nº 26 - IST-ID
1801P.01233
Researcher
Interactive Technologies Institute / LARSyS, Portugal, Portugal
Ongoing
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12/19 Outer retinal bands segmentation in healthy human subjects using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks FLORETINA
(Florence, Italy)
Distinctions

Award

2024 Clinical Research Fellowship Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Portugal
Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Portugal
2024 Bayer Global's support grant
Bayer Portugal SA, Portugal
2024 Bolsa de Investigação GER (com apoio AbbVie)
AOGER — ASSOCIAÇÃO DE OFTALMOLOGISTAS PARA O ESTUDO DA RETINA, Portugal
2022 Diploma de Mérito Académico
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Title

2024 Le Français, une Langue d'Opportunités - Certificado Françês B1.1
Alliance Biblique Française, France

Other distinction

2024 Unilabs financing
Unilabs Portugal, Portugal