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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Filipa Dias Pinto

Citation names

  • Pinto, J.
  • J. Pinto
  • Joana Pinto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CF1B-F041-2CE1
ORCID iD
0009-0002-7659-686X
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=vbr5qxAAAAAJ#d=gs_hdr_drw&t=1713522128235
Scopus Author Id
59060618700

Email addresses

  • pinto.joanafd@gmail.com (Professional)
  • up201707095@up.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Japanese Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/09 - 2028
Ongoing
PhD Neurosciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Experimental Neurosciences
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020/09 - 2022/11/14
Concluded
Master Degree in Psychology (Mestrado)
Major in Clinical and Health Psychology
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Pupillary Dilation and EEG Response to Erotica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09 - 2020/07
Concluded
Integrated Master Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/10 - 2028/09 Characterizing of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Portuguese population: Quality of Life and Cognitive, Psychological, Neuropsychological and Psychophysiological Alterations
2024.01355.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Pinto, J.; Souza, Alessandra S. "Physiological Changes Induced by Negative Film Clips and its Role on Visual Working Memory". Paper presented in 15th U.PORTO Young Researchers Meeting, 2022.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Pinto, J.; Cera, Nicoletta; Pignatelli, Duarte. Corresponding author: Pignatelli, Duarte. "More with less: The role of lipids in PCOS finally disclosed through composite indices". Paper presented in Joint Congress of ESPE and ESE 2025, 2025.
Journal article
  1. Cera, Nicoletta; Pinto, J.; Dong, Minghao; Durning, Steven; Georgiadis, Janniko R. Corresponding author: Cera, Nicoletta. "The brain on expert medical performance: A systematic review and ALE fMRI meta-analysis". Psychoradiology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1093/psyrad/kkaf019.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.1093/psyrad/kkaf019
  2. Cera, Nicoletta; Pinto, J.; Faustino, Ricardo. "Functional and Structural Alterations in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and a Preliminary Activation Likelihood Estimation Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Meta-Analysis". Pediatric Reports 17 3 (2025): 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/pediatric17030057.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/pediatric17030057
  3. Pinto, J.; Cera, Nicoletta; Camerino, Claudia; Beires, Jorge; Pignatelli, Duarte. Corresponding author: Cera, Nicoletta. "Androgens and Hirsutism in a Large Cohort of Portuguese Women". Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 3 (2025): 673. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14030673.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/jcm14030673
  4. Cera, Nicoletta; Pinto, J.; Pignatelli, Duarte. Corresponding author: Pignatelli, Duarte. "What do we know about abnormally low prolactin levels in polycystic ovary syndrome? A narrative review". Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11154-024-09912-x.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/s11154-024-09912-x
  5. Pinto, J.; Comprido, Camila; Moreira, Vanessa; Maccarone, Marica Tina; Cogoni, Carlotta; Faustino, Ricardo; Pignatelli, Duarte; Cera, Nicoletta. Corresponding author: Cera, Nicoletta. "The Complex Role Played by the Default Mode Network during Sexual Stimulation: A Cluster-Based fMRI Meta-Analysis". Behavioral Sciences 14 7 (2024): 570. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs14070570.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/bs14070570
  6. Cera, Nicoletta; Pinto, J.; Pignatelli, Duarte. Corresponding author: Cera, Nicoletta. "The Role of Oxytocin in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review". Current Issues in Molecular Biology 46 6 (2024): 5223-5241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cimb46060313.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/cimb46060313
  7. Pinto, J.; Cera, N.; Pignatelli, D. Corresponding author: Pignatelli, D. "Psychological symptoms and brain activity alterations in women with PCOS and their relation to the reduced quality of life: a narrative review". Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40618-024-02329-y.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/s40618-024-02329-y
Preprint
  1. Cera, N; Pinto, J.; Pignatelli, D. Corresponding author: Cera, N. "The Role of Oxytocin in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review". 2024. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202404.0810/v1.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Joana Filipa Dias Pinto. "Pupillary Dilation and EEG Response to Erotica". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/145362.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/05/05 Physiological Changes Induced by Negative Film Clips and its Role on Visual Working Memory 15ª Edição Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto (IJUP)
Investigação Jovem da U.Porto (IJUP) (Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/21 - 2023/09/23 Congresso Ibero-americano de Neuropsicologia & IV Simpósio Internacional de Neuropsicologia e Reabilitação (2023/09/21 - 2023/09/23)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neuropsicologia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Centro de Reabilitação Profissional de Gaia, Portugal

Escola Superior de Saúde do Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/06/02 - 2025/06/02 The workshop addressed neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in health and disease. Key presentations explored the effects of chronic pain on choice behavior, the interplay between social and non-social decisions, the role of striatal circuits in value-based behavior, neuromodulation of cognitive biases, and uncertainty processing in the brain. The program also featured interdisciplinary approaches, including computational modeling, neuroimaging, and emerging applications of explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) in clinical neuroscience.
Workshop
First Workshop Neuroeconomics @UP – Understanding the Brain Circuits of Decision in Health and Disease
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2025/05/26 - 2025/05/26 A Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (AICIB), em colaboração com a Secretaria Geral do Ministério da Saúde (SGMS), organiza uma sessão de informação sobre as oportunidades de financiamento para 2025 dos Programas Europeus Horizonte Europa, EU4Health e Europa Digital, a decorrer no dia 26 de maio, no i3S no Porto. Programa: - Programa Horizonte Europa: Cluster Saúde; Missão Cancro (Isabel Carvalho-Oliveira e Ana Rita Pinto - Cluster Saúde, AICIB); - Programa Europa Digital (Ana Rita Pinto, Ponto de Contacto DEP-Saúde, AICIB).
Seminar
Sessão Informativa: “Financiamento Europeu em Saúde” PORTO
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2024/04/24 - 2024/04/24 During this webinar/seminar, you can learn about how to tackle global health challenges through research, political change, and health diplomacy.
Seminar
Translating health research into global impact: The power of networks
UiT Noregs arktiske universitet, Norway
2024/04/20 - 2024/04/20 As temáticas a abordar englobam o desenvolvimento de novas terapêuticas para a doença de Parkinson, a importância dos ensaios clínicos, os avanços no diagnóstico, perspectivas de futuro da doença e o papel da música como terapia.
Congress
II Congresso Anual da Young Parkies Portugal
Young Parkies Portugal, Portugal
2024/04/17 - 2024/04/18 The Python libraries course will develop your understanding on how to perform numerical computation, data analysis and data visualization using NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib libraries. Once you learn about the Python libraries for data science, next you will explore scikit-learn for model building, Beautiful Soup for web scraping, and TensorFlow.
Workshop
Python Libraries for Data Science
Simplilearn, India
2024/04/16 - 2024/04/18 Course: Introduction; Generating Signals and Common Signal Operations; Estimating Power Spectral Density; Improving the Power Spectral Density Estimate; Characterizing Digital Filters; Designing Digital Filters; Streaming Signal Processing; Conclusion. https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/progress/share/certificate.html?id=68b4c361-27d3-47b1-84f9-a265d18dcdce&
Workshop
Signal Processing with MATLAB
Mathworks Inc, United States
2024/04/15 - 2024/04/16 The Python course with certificate covers Python Installation, Jupyter Notebook, Python Variables, Python Numbers, Python Tuples, Strings in Python, Python Dictionaries sets, If else statements, Python loops, For loop in Python, While Loop, Array in Python, Functions in Python, Objects and Classes, Threading in Python, Python Scripting, top 5 Python Libraries, NumPy Library, Pandas Library, MatPotlib Library, Scikit Learn Library, Web Scraping using Python and some Python Interview Questions.
Workshop
Python for Beginners
Simplilearn, India
2024/04/13 - 2024/04/16 Topics covered by this course: Installing Python; Why Program?; Variables, expressions, and statements; Conditional Execution; Functions; Loops and Iterations; Strings; Files; Lists; Dictionaries; Tuples; Regular Expressions; Network Programming; Using Web Services; Object-Oriented Programming; Databases; Data Visualization.
Workshop
Python for Everybody
freeCodeCamp, United States
2024/04/10 - 2024/04/15 Course: Getting Started; Graphics Functions; Customizing Graphics Objects; Defining Categories of Data; Analyzing Groups within Data; Importing Data from Multiple Files; Review Project; Images and 3-D Surface Plots; Importing Unstructured Data; Conclusion. https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/progress/share/certificate.html?id=0a2df1af-b314-4565-8331-27c051a91569&
Workshop
MATLAB for Data Processing and Visualization
Mathworks Inc, United States
2024/04/11 - 2024/04/13 Course: 1. Loading Data in Python; 2. Data Exploration & Preprocessing; 3. Random Data Generation (Data Simulation); 4. Filtering, Sorting, Grouping; 5. Descriptive Statistics; 6. Merging & Joining Datasets; 7. User Defined Functions.
Workshop
Python for Data Science: Thrive with Python's Data Mastery
Udemy Inc, United States
2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09 Master the fundamentals of Python programming, including variables, data types, and syntax; Develop the skills to write and run Python programs using an IDE or text editor; Gain proficiency in control flow, decision-making, and loops in Python; Learn essential data structures and algorithms in Python for problem-solving.
Workshop
Introduction To Python Programming
Udemy Inc, United States
2024/04/07 - 2024/04/07 Learn the basics of practical signal processing techniques in MATLAB®. Use spectral analysis and filtering techniques to preprocess, analyze, and extract information from signal data. Course modules: -Course Overview, -Signal Data in MATLAB; -Preprocessing Signals; -Spectral Analysis; -Filtering; -Signal Measurements. https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/progress/share/certificate.html?id=7c4525d3-0fe2-43df-9b76-129202ce06ea&
Workshop
Signal Processing Onramp
Mathworks Inc, United States
2024/04/04 - 2024/04/06 This course covers the basics of using statistical methods for analysis in MATLAB. Through the use of visualizations, descriptive statistics, normal probability distributions, and hypothesis testing, you’ll analyze the evolution of a finch species on the Galapagos Archipelago. https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/progress/share/certificate. html?id=0095ed5e-730f-433b-874e-b9a9b9945db9&
Workshop
Statistics Onramp
Mathworks Inc, United States
2024/04/01 - 2024/04/05 Coding Challenge Overview & Introduction To HTML; Add Style With CSS; HTML 5 & The Semantic Web; Responsive Design; JavaScript Basics. Certificate:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PvyLjB1ZaLtZhepMMrsFmPiDQfBDy3m4/view?usp=sharing
Workshop
The 5 Day Coding Challenge
Code Institute, Ireland
2024/03/23 - 2024/04/04 Modules: Introduction; Using the MATLAB Desktop; Creating and Manipulating Arrays; Accessing Data in Arrays; Mathematical and Statistical Operations with Arrays; Visualizing Data in 2D and 3D; Conditional Data Selection; Tables of Data; Organizing Tabular Data; Specialized Data Types; Preprocessing Data; Common Data Analysis Techniques; Programming Constructs; Increasing Automation with Functions; Troubleshooting Code; Review Project Iⅈ Conclusion. Digital Credential: https://www.credly.com/badges/56f4abaf-35a9-4e3e-9845-2b55298bc4b4/public_url
Workshop
MATLAB Fundamentals
Mathworks Inc, United States
2024/03/28 - 2024/04/01 Crash Course introduction to MATLAB for neuroscience and psychology students for experiments and data analysis: What is MATLAB and why you need it in neuroscience and psychology; How to create and run experiments like Stroop task, Go/NoGo, N-back task, affective shifting task and many others with MATLAB; How to use MATLAB to collect EEG, GSR, fMRI, TMS and eye-tracking data; How to import, save, analyse, visualise and export data with MATLAB. MATLAB Crash Course for Neuroscience and Psychology
Udemy Inc, United States
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22 Learn the basics of MATLAB® through this introductory tutorial on commonly used features and workflows. Get started with the MATLAB language and environment so that you can analyze science and engineering data. Course modules: - Course Overview; - Commands; - MATLAB Desktop and Editor; - Vectors and Matrices; - Array Indexing and Modification; - Array Calculations; - Function Calls; - Documentation; - Plots; - Data Import; - Logical Arrays; - Programming; - Final Project; - Conclusion. https://matlabacademy.mathworks.com/progress/share/certificate.
Workshop
MATLAB Onramp
Mathworks Inc, United States
2024/03/13 - 2024/03/13 A sessão moderada por Isabel Martins, professora da FMUP, e conta com a realização dos seminários “Why CAV-2 (canine adenovirus type 2) is a neuroscientist best friend?” (Iria Gonzalez-Dopeso Reyes – Universidade de Montpellier), “Charting the cortical control of the descending pain modulatory system” (Robert Drake – Universidade de Bristol) e “Innovative Approaches for Visualizing and Manipulating Neural Circuits” (Carina Cunha – Universidade do Minho).
Symposium
Mini-simpósio "Manipulação genética de circuitos neuronais"
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2024/01/29 - 2024/02/01 How modern science is unlocking the keys to understanding brain dysfunction. This course offers the latest information on the symptoms and causes of brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Anorexia Nervosa, Sleep Apnea, and others. The specific types of neurons that are affected, and the molecules that cause their death, are described in an effort to portray the search for cures for these disorders
Workshop
The Science of Brain Disorders
Udemy Inc, United States
2023/10 - 2024/01 O curso tem duração de 16 semanas e inclui 12 aulas online com tutores da instituição. O objetivo é melhorar o acesso a um mercado de trabalho global e oportunidades em diversas áreas. Curso nível avançado (C1) que inclui treinamento para: boa comunicação numa variedade de ambientes profissionais, reuniões, palestras ou apresentações; 48 horas de treinamento online por nível; 12 horas de aulas síncronas online em grupo com um professor do British Council; infinidade de recursos à sua disposição.
Workshop
Online English Courses 2023 British Council
British Accreditation Council, United Kingdom
2023/11 - 2023/12 Practical Knowledge of Basic Brain Neuroranatomy and Neuroscience
Workshop
Basic Neuroanatomy for the Non-Neurologists
Udemy Inc, United States
2023/09/21 - 2023/09/23 Este congresso acontece em simultâneo com o IV Simpósio Internacional de Neuropsicologia e Reabilitação. O evento contará com participação de figuras eminentes a nível internacional na área da Neuropsicologia e das Neurociências, com comunicações sobre diferentes temas da atualidade da Neuropsicologia e Reabilitação.
Congress
Congresso Ibero-americano de Neuropsicologia & IV Simpósio Internacional de Neuropsicologia e Reabilitação
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neuropsicologia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Centro de Reabilitação Profissional de Gaia, Portugal

Escola Superior de Saúde do Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2021/07/19 - 2021/07/22 This summer school is focused on the application of Electroencephalography (EEG) and Event Related Potential (ERP) techniques to the study of cognitive and affective processes. The course is designed as an introduction to these techniques, and does not require prior knowledge or experience with EEG/ERP. However, participants with some degree of experience also considered the course helpful. Basic knowledge of statistics is expected (general understanding of statistical tests, correlation, ANOVA, regression).
Workshop
2nd Online Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology Summer School : Acquisition, processing and analysis of EEG signal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2019/11/09 - 2019/11/09 Identificar estratégias fundamentais para a atuação ao nível dos primeiros socorros Psicológicos, face a uma situação de crise. Explorar o conceito de crise, catástrofe e emergência; Reconhecer as diferentes reações de stress nas vítimas; descrever os 4 princípios fundamentais dos primeiros socorros psicológicos; identificar o estilo de comunicação a utilizar com as vítimas de uma crise; identificar estratégias de intervenção, face a cada tipo de vítima.
Workshop
Primeiros Socorros Psicológicos: Compreender para Intervir
ReConstruir - Psicologia e Desenvolvimento Pessoal, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2024 PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal