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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Carolina de Oliveira Carvalho

Citation names

  • Carvalho, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9C1C-3F19-391E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0081-1976

Addresses

  • rua de alcantara nº34, 2º andar, 1300-027, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Dutch Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/01 - 2020/07/06
Concluded
 PhD in computational Neurosciences (Doctor)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
"Plasticity of Visual Field Representations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/09/10 - 2015/07/06
Concluded
 Ciências da Engenharia - Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Licenciatura)
Major in Radiação e Imagiologia
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Dermal Epidermal Separation for Skin Rejuvenation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/01 - 2024/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2018/07/20 - 2018/08/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
2017/10/01 - 2018/01/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Brain Innovation B.V., Netherlands
Brain Innovation B.V., Netherlands
2014/06/16 - 2015/03/21 Research Trainee (Research) Philips Research, Netherlands
Philips Research, Netherlands
2013/09/20 - 2014/06/01 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2013/06/17 - 2013/09/04 Research Trainee (Research) Harvard University Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, United States
Harvard University Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/03/01 - 2025/02/28 OptiVist
955590
Supervisor
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science, Belgium
Ongoing
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 BOLDissect
2022.07889.PTDC
Post-doc
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2023/09/01 PlastiMap Multi-dimensional mapping of the interplay between stability and plasticity in the adult visual pathway
101032056 — PlastiMap — H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
Post-doc
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science, Belgium
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science
Ongoing
2015/09/01 - 2019/12/31 NextGenVis
641805
Researcher
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Excellent Science
Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2019/12/15 EGRET the European Glaucoma Research Training Program
661883
Researcher
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Joana Carvalho; Mathew Ernest Diamond; Francisca F. Fernandes; Noam Shemesh. "Extensive topographic remapping and functional sharpening in the adult rat visual pathway upon first visual experience". PLOS Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002229.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.3002229
  2. Joana Carvalho; Azzurra Invernizzi; Joana Martins; Remco J. Renken; Frans W. Cornelissen. "Local neuroplasticity in adult glaucomatous visual cortex". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24709-1.
    10.1038/s41598-022-24709-1
  3. Azzurra Invernizzi; Koen Haak; Joana C. Carvalho; Remco J. Renken; Frans W. Cornelissen. "Bayesian connective field modeling using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach". NeuroImage 264 (2022): 119688-119688. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119688.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119688
  4. S. Haykal; A. Invernizzi; J. Carvalho; N.M. Jansonius; F.W. Cornelissen. "Microstructural Visual Pathway White Matter Alterations in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging Study". American Journal of Neuroradiology 43 5 (2022): 756-763. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A7495.
    10.3174/ajnr.A7495
  5. "Binocular Integrated Visual Field Deficits Are Associated With Changes in Local Network Function in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Resting-State fMRI Study". Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.744139.
    10.3389/fnagi.2021.744139
  6. "Predictive masking of an artificial scotoma is associated with a system-wide reconfiguration of neural populations in the human visual cortex". NeuroImage 245 (2021): 118690-118690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118690.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118690
  7. "Visual Field Reconstruction in Hemianopia Using fMRI Based Mapping Techniques". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.713114.
    10.3389/fnhum.2021.713114
  8. "Visual Field Reconstruction Using fMRI-Based Techniques". Translational Vision Science & Technology 10 1 (2021): 25-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/tvst.10.1.25.
    10.1167/tvst.10.1.25
  9. "Foveal pRF properties in the visual cortex depend on the extent of stimulated visual field". NeuroImage 222 (2020): 117250-117250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117250.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117250
  10. "Micro-probing enables fine-grained mapping of neuronal populations using fMRI". NeuroImage 209 (2020): 116423-116423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116423.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116423
  11. Joana Carvalho; Remco J. Renken; Frans W. Cornelissen. "Studying Cortical Plasticity in Ophthalmic and Neurological Disorders: From Stimulus-Driven to Cortical Circuitry Modeling Approaches". Neural Plasticity 2019 (2019): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2724101.
    10.1155/2019/2724101
  12. "A second-order orientation-contrast stimulus for population-receptive-field-based retinotopic mapping". NeuroImage 164 (2018): 183-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.073.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.073
  13. "Real-time imaging of suction blistering in human skin using optical coherence tomography". Biomedical Optics Express 6 12 (2015): 4790-4790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/boe.6.004790.
    10.1364/boe.6.004790
Preprint
  1. "Bayesian Connective Field Modeling: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach". 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.03.281162.
    10.1101/2020.09.03.281162
  2. "Predictive masking is associated with a system-wide reconfiguration of neural populations in the human visual cortex". 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/758094.
    10.1101/758094

Other

Other output
  1. Visual field reconstruction using fMRI-based techniques. 2020. Joana Carvalho; Azzurra Invernizzi; Joana Martins; Nomdo M. Jansonius; Remco J. Renken; Frans W. Cornelissen. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.226258.
    10.1101/2020.07.29.226258
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/05 Layer based Connective Field (lCF) mapping at ultrahigh spatiotemporal resolution fMRI ISMRM brain function workshop
ISMRM (Pádua, Italy)
2023/07/24 Layer based Connective Field (lCF) mapping at ultrahigh spatiotemporal resolution fMRI OHBM 2023
OHBM (Montréal, Canada)
2022/06/21 Mapping the influence of visual experience during cortical reorganization in adulthood OHBM
OHBM (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2021/04/16 Mapping the dynamic interplay between stability and plasticity of the adult visual system across multiple spatiotemporal scales. BIOSAM
2019/10/07 Micro-probing the brain: high-resolution functional mapping of neuronal subpopulations. Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
(United States)
2019/06/12 Changes in pRFs during perceptual filling-in of an artificial scotoma in humans. OHBM
(Rome)
2018/12/12 Micro-probing the visual cortex. Perception Day
(Nijmegen)
2016/08/30 The magnitude of perceptual filling-in depends on the spatial frequency of the visual scene. ECVP
(Barcelona)
2016/03/08 How does the brain fill-in a scotoma? DOPS
(Nijmegen)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/06/11 - 2019/06/12 Organization of the Groningen Glaucoma Night. Communicate the latest glaucoma research to lay-people. About 50 people (patients, their relatives and others interested) attended this meeting. (2019/06/11 - 2019/06/12)
Congress (Co-organisor)
2017/02/01 - 2018/06/30 ‘Schools of the future’ project and Engineers without Borders of the Netherlands. The project focus was to teach basic technical skills and spark interest in technology to teenagers and communities in developing countries. More than 150 teenagers attended the workshop in Mozambique. (2017/05/01 - 2017/06/06)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/01 Building an analysis pipeline to explore at ultra-high field (7T) MRI the laminar distribution of myelin in the human cortex in-vivo
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Márcia Nunes (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/01/08 - Current Stroke AHA
2021/03/01 - Current Neuroimage Clinical Elsevier
2020/11/01 - Current Scientific Reports
2020/08/13 - Current IOVS
2019/07/07 - Current Neuroimage

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2015/09/01 - 2016/03/20 President of Philips Intern Committee. Organization of scientific and social events in Eindhoven (NL).

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021/12/01 - Current OHBM Cardiff

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016/09/01 - 2019/06/30 Teaching Assistent of MSc Research Master Psychology and Biomedical Engineering. Groningen University. Course Functional Neuroscience . (Master) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
2016/09/01 - 2019/02/28 Teaching Assistent of BSc Molecular Medicine students. Groningen University. Course: Glaucoma Dissected. Focus on the development of competences in research and diagnosis tools(20 hrs). (Bachelor) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/08/17 - Current RTP1 Bom dia Portugal Divulgação de descoberta scientifica ( Plasticidade cerebral)
2021/02/24 - 2021/02/24 Jornal de noticias SIC Vencedora das medalhas de honra L'óreal para mulheres na Ciência
Distinctions

Award

2022 Travel Grant Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2022
Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Germany
2021 Medal of Honor L'óreal for Women in Science
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN) Best Dissertation award
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
2021 Best Poster Presentation

Other distinction

2021 Magna Cum Laude, abstract ISMRM 2021
2018 Travel Grant Professor Mulder Foundation
2013 Travel Grant Wyss Institute for Biomedical Inspired Engineering.
Harvard University Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, United States