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Jorge Miguel Farinha Ferreira. Completed the Mestrado in Neuroscience in 2019/02/25 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina and Licenciatura in Psychological Sciences in 2016/07/27 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia. Attends the Doutoramento in Biomedical Sciences by Instituto de Medicina Molecular since 2020/01/01. Is PhD Student in Instituto de Medicina Molecular. Published 14 articles in journals. Organized 2 event(s). Participated in 24 event(s). Has received 7 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 1 project(s) and PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Basic Medicine with emphasis on Neurosciences, Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Basic Medicine with emphasis on Pharmacology and pharmacy and Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology. In their professional activities interacted with 89 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jorge Miguel Farinha Ferreira
Date of birth
1992/01/01
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Miguel F.
  • Miguel Farinha-Ferreira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E416-A9B5-8059
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1240-0717

Email addresses

  • jorge.ferreira@medicina.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 217999411 Ext.: 47127 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto de Medicina Molecular. Edificio Egas Moniz, Avenida Egas Moniz , 1649-028 , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy
  • 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)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31
Ongoing
 Biomedical Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Neuroscience
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019/09/03 - 2019/09/29
Concluded
 Cajal Whole-Brain Imaging (Outros)
Fédération Bordeaux Neurocampus, France
2016 - 2019/02/25
Concluded
 Neuroscience (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Characterization of the affective behavioral effects of chronic adolescent exposure to the cannabinoid receptor agonist HU-210 in female rats" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2018/09
Concluded
 VII CAN – 7th Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology Summer School: Acquisition, processing and analysis of EEG signal (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
 N/A
2017/09
Concluded
 Course in Laboratory Animal Science (Functions A, C and D of Rodents and Fish) (Outros)
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 N/A
2013 - 2016/07/27
Concluded
 Psychological Sciences (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
 18
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/01 - Current PhD Student Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01 - Current Does context matter for drug action? Contextual dependency of the long-lasting neurobiological and antidepressant actions of psilocybin
PTDC/MED-FAR/4834/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01 - Current In the search of the synaptic mechanism operated by a novel selective antiepileptic drug
PTDC/MED-FAR/30933/2017
Other
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01 - Current In the search of the synaptic mechanism operated by a novel selective antiepileptic drug
PTDC/MED-FAR/30933/2017
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Galipeau, Chloé; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Marques, Sandra; Silva, João Pedro; Mariani, JC; Diebolt, S; Barthe, L; et al. "The role of 5-HT2AR activation in the long-lasting effects of psilocybin". Paper presented in European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Scientist Forum, 2023.
  2. Neuparth-Sottomayor, Mariana; Tatiana P. Morais; Pina, Carolina; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Abreu, Daniela Sofia; Mouro, Francisco; Sebastião, AM; Crunelli, Vincenzo; Vaz, Sandra H.. "Neuropsychiatric comorbidities of experimental models of absence seizures". Paper presented in ILAE meeting Cardifff 2022., 2022.
  3. Neuparth-Sottomayor, Mariana; Tatiana P. Morais; Pina, Carolina; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Abreu, Daniela Sofia; Mouro, Francisco; Sebastião, AM; Crunelli, Vincenzo; Vaz, Sandra H.. "Assessment Of Absence Seizures Animal Models Cognitive Comorbidities". Paper presented in FENS 2022, 2022.
  4. Neuparth Sottomayor, Mariana; Pina, Carolina; Tatiana P. Morais; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Solano, Filipa; Abreu, Daniela Sofia; Mouro, Francisco; et al. "The puzzle: absence seizures, atypical astrocytes, and memory impairments". Paper presented in XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, 2021.
  5. Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Miranda-Lourenço, Catarina; Simões, Hugo; Danylyuk, Maryna; Santos, Renata; Lenkei, Zsolt; Sebastião, AM. "Titrating the Trip: a dose-response antagonist-controlled study of persistent psilocybin effects on affective behavior". Paper presented in Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences, 2021.
  6. Neuparth Sottomayor, Mariana; Pina, Carolina; Tatiana P. Morais; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Solano, Filipa; Abreu, Daniela Sofia; Mouro, Francisco; et al. "Astrocyte Morphological Changes In Absence Seizures". Paper presented in V Symposium Portuguese Glial Network 2021, 2021.
  7. Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Rei, Nádia; Miranda-Lourenço, Catarina; Gomes, Joana I.; Serrão, Paula; Sebastião, Ana M. "Do not judge a rat by its (forced) swimming: exploring the contradictory affective behavioral effects of chronic adolescent HU-210 exposure". Paper presented in European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021.
  8. Neuparth Sottomayor, Mariana; Pina, Carolina; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Solano, Filipa; Mouro, Francisco; Tatiana P. Morais; Sebastião, AM; Crunelli, Vincenzo; Vaz SH. "Comorbidities of Childhood Absence Epilepsy: from circuits to behaviour". Paper presented in EpiEpiNet - Epileptogenesis and Epilepsy Network: from genes, synapses and circuits to pave the way for novel drugs and strategies Summer School - "Trends and challenges in epilepsy research", 2021.
  9. Rei, Nádia; Rombo, Diogo M.; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Ribeiro, Joaquim A.; Sebastião, Ana M; Vaz, Sandra H.. "Hippocampal synaptic dysfunction in the SOD1G93A mouse model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: reversal by adenosine A2AR blockade". Paper presented in FENS Hertie-Winter School 2019, 2019.
  10. Rei, Nádia; Valente, Cláudia A; Vaz, Sandra H.; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Ribeiro, Joaquim A.; Sebastião, Ana M. "Progressive changes in the adenosinergic and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor systems in the SOD1G93A mouse model of ALS and the effect of chronic caffeine treatment". Paper presented in 5th Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2019.
  11. Farinha-Fernandes, António; Healion, Nicole; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Sousa, Ana M.; Delgado, João; Rosário, Vivienne; Guerreiro, José C.; et al. "Holistic processing measures in word recognition: Do they reflect a common underlying mechanism?". Paper presented in 5th Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2019.
  12. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Rei, Nádia; Gomes, Joana I.; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M. "Do not judge a rat by its (forced) swimming: exploring the contradictory affective behavioral effects of chronic adolescent HU-210 exposure.". Paper presented in 5th Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2019.
  13. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Rei, Nádia; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M. ""On cloud nine" or "in a funk"? Contradictory effects of chronic adolescent HU-210 exposure on tests of depressive-like behavior.". Paper presented in Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience, 2019.
  14. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Rei, Nádia; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M. "“Feeling blue” or “Tickled pink”? opposing effects of adolescent HU-210 exposure on depressive-like behaviors.". Paper presented in Cajal Whole-Brain Imaging Course, 2019.
  15. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Rei, Nádia; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M. "Not all is as it seems: contradictory outcomes in different tests of depressive-like behavior after chronic adolescent HU-210 exposure.". Paper presented in Meeting of the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society, 2019.
  16. Ventura, Paulo; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Guerreiro, José C.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Delgado, João; Pereira, Alexandre; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "Holistic word processing predicts word recognition efficiency.". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Experimental Psychology, 2019.
  17. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Rei, Nádia; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M. "“Over the moon” or “down in the dumps”? Contradictory effects of chronic adolescent exposure to HU-210 on depressive-like behavior.". Paper presented in Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences, 2019.
  18. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Rei, Nádia; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M.. "Of rats, cannabinoids and the blues: contradictory effects of chronic adolescent exposure to HU-210 on depressive-like behavior.". Paper presented in 3rd Annual Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks (SynaNet) Meeting, 2018.
  19. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M.. "Un)like two peas in a pod? Unexpected results from a preliminary study on the persistent depressive-like phenotype induced by chronic exposure to cannabinoid agonist HU-210 during adolescence in female rats". Paper presented in Annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Meeting, 2018.
  20. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Fonseca-Gomes, João; Vaz, Sandra H.; Martins, Valéria; Pereira, Beatriz; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M.. "Not all cannabinoids are created equally: effects of chronic adolescent exposure to HU-210 on adult depressive-like phenotypes.". Paper presented in 4th Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2018.
  21. Farinha-Fernandes, António; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Delgado, João; Faustino, Bruno; Guerreiro, José C.; Raposo, Isabel; Leite, Isabel; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "“Partial or complete?”: Task design matters when studying holistic face processing penetrability.". Paper presented in 4th Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2018.
  22. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Martins, Valéria; Pereira, Beatriz; Sebastião, Ana M.. "Chronic adolescent administration of the cannabinoid receptor agonist HU-210 does not induce an adult depressive like-phenotype in female rats". Paper presented in Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Neural Systems Symposium, 2018.
  23. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Mouro, Francisco M.; Sebastião, Ana M.. "Are not all cannabinoids are created equally? Results from a preliminary study on the adult depressive-like phenotype induced by chronic exposure to HU-210 during adolescence". Paper presented in 13th Young European Scientists Meeting, 2018.
  24. Ventura, Paulo; Ferreira, Miguel; Delgado, João; Guerreiro, José C.; Faustino, Bruno; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Raposo, Isabel; Leite, Isabel; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "Holistic word processing is less penetrable than holistic face processing.". Paper presented in 1st Workshop on Cognitive Science of Culture, 2018.
  25. Ventura, Paulo; Ferreira, Miguel; Delgado, João; Guerreiro, José C.; Faustino, Bruno; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Leite, Isabel; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "The resilience of words over faces: Differences in the perceptual disruption of holistic processing". Paper presented in 3rd Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2017.
  26. Ventura, Paulo; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Guerreiro, José C.; Faustino, Bruno; Leite, Isabel; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "The right perception: Hemispheric lateralization is the same for the holistic processing of faces and words.". Paper presented in 3rd Student’s Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Catarina Miranda-Lourenço; Chloé Galipeau; Zsolt Lenkei; Ana M. Sebastião. "Concurrent stress modulates the acute and post-acute effects of psilocybin in a sex-dependent manner". Neuropharmacology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2024.110280.
    10.1016/j.neuropharm.2024.110280
  2. Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Daniela M. Magalhães; Mariana Neuparth-Sottomayor; Hugo Rafael; Catarina Miranda-Lourenço; Ana M. Sebastião. "Unmoving and uninflamed: Characterizing neuroinflammatory dysfunction in the Wistar-Kyoto rat model of depression". Journal of Neurochemistry (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/jnc.16083.
    10.1111/jnc.16083
  3. Neuparth-Sottomayor, Mariana; Pina, Carolina; Tatiana P. Morais; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Abreu, Daniela Sofia; Solano, Filipa; Mouro, Francisco; et al. Corresponding author: Vaz, Sandra H.. "Cognitive comorbidities of experimental absence seizures are independent of anxiety". Neurobiology of disease (2023):
    Under revision
  4. Nádia Rei; David Blum; Cláudia A. Valente; Sandra H. Vaz; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Joaquim A. Ribeiro; Ana M. Sebastião. "Changes in adenosine receptors and neurotrophic factors in the SOD1G93A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Modulation by chronic caffeine". PLOS ONE (2022): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272104.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0272104
  5. Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Nádia Rei; João Fonseca-Gomes; Catarina Miranda-Lourenço; Paula Serrão; Sandra H. Vaz; Joana I. Gomes; et al. "Unexpected short- and long-term effects of chronic adolescent HU-210 exposure on emotional behavior". Neuropharmacology 214 (2022): 109155-109155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2022.109155.
    10.1016/j.neuropharm.2022.109155
  6. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Ventura, Paulo; Tse, Helen W.-Y.; Guerreiro, José C.; Delgado, João; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Faustino, Bruno; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "The relationships between word reading and different measures of holistic word processing". Attention, Perception & Psychophysics (2022):
    Accepted
  7. Gomes, Joana I.; Farinha-Ferreira, Miguel; Rei, Nádia; Gonçalves-Ribeiro, Joana; Ribeiro, Joaquim A.; Sebastião, Ana M.; Vaz, Sandra H.. "Of adenosine and the blues: The adenosinergic system in the pathophysiology and treatment of major depressive disorder". Pharmacological Research 163 (2021): 105363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2020.105363.
    10.1016/j.phrs.2020.105363
  8. Delgado, João; Pereira, Rodrigo; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Guerreiro, José C.; Faustino, Bruno; Domingues, Miguel; Ventura, Paulo. "Sound symbolism is modulated by linguistic experience". Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística 7 (2020): 137-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a9.
    10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a9
  9. Rei, Nádia; Rombo, Diogo M.; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Baqi, Younnis; Müller, Christa E.; Ribeiro, Joaquim A.; Sebastião, Ana M; Vaz, Sandra H.. "Hippocampal synaptic dysfunction in the SOD1G93A mouse model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: reversal by adenosine A2AR blockade". Neuropharmacology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2020.108106.
    Published
  10. Ventura, Paulo; Fernandes, Tânia; Pereira, Alexandre; Guerreiro, José C.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel F.; et al. "Holistic word processing is correlated with efficiency in visual word recognition". Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-01988-2.
    Open access • Published • 10.3758/s13414-020-01988-2
  11. Rodrigues, Rui S.; Lourenço, Diogo M.; Paulo, Sara L.; Mateus, Joana M. ; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Mouro, Francisco M.; Moreira, João B.; et al. "Endocannabinoid actions on neural stem cells: implications for physiopathology". Molecules (2019):
    Open access • Published
  12. Ventura, Paulo; Leite, Isabel; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Delgado, João; Faustino, Bruno; Guerreiro, José C.; Raposo, Isabel. "Holistic Face Processing is Penetrable… Depending on the Composite Design.". Visual Cognition (2019):
    Published
  13. Ferreira, Miguel F.; Castanheira, Lígia; Sebastião, Ana M.; Telles-Correia, Diogo. "Depression Assessment in Clinical Trials and Pre-clinical Tests: A Critical Review". Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 18 19 (2018): 1677-1703. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568026618666181115095920.
    Published • 10.2174/1568026618666181115095920
  14. Castanheira, Lígia; Ferreira, Miguel F.; Sebastião, Ana M.; Telles-Correia, Diogo. "Anxiety Assessment in Pre-clinical Tests and in Clinical Trials: A Critical Review". Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 18 19 (2018): 1656-1676. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568026618666181115102518.
    Open access • Published • 10.2174/1568026618666181115102518
  15. Ventura, Paulo; Delgado, João; Ferreira, Miguel; Farinha-Fernandes, António; Guerreiro, José C.; Faustino, Bruno; Leite, Isabel; Wong, Alan C.-N.. "Hemispheric asymmetry in holistic processing of words". Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition 24 1 (2018): 98-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357650x.2018.1475483.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/1357650x.2018.1475483
Preprint
  1. Nádia Rei; Cláudia A. Valente; Sandra H. Vaz; Miguel Farinha-Ferreira; Joaquim A. Ribeiro; Ana M. Sebastião. "Changes in adenosine and neurotrophic signaling in the SOD1G93A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: modulation by chronic caffeine intake". 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.14.500069.
    10.1101/2022.07.14.500069
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ferreira, Miguel F.. "Characterization of the affective behavioral effects of chronic adolescent exposure to the cannabinoid receptor agonist HU-210 in female rats". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, 2019.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/02/07 Do not judge a rat by its (forced) swimming: exploring the contradictory affective behavioral effects of chronic adolescent HU-210 exposure. 50th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05/03 Holistic Face Processing is Penetrable… Depending on the Composite Design. 14th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Experimental Psychology
Portuguese Society for Experimental Psychology (Évora, Portugal)
2019/02 The short- and long-term effects of chronic adolescent exposure to HU-210 on depressive-like phenotypes. 49th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/12 - 2019/06 Member of staff for the Bi-annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences, to be held in Lisboa, Portugal. (2019/05/30 - 2019/06/01)
Congress
 Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências, Portugal

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2018/02/05 - 2018/02/07 Member of staff for the 48th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology, held at Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa. (2018/02/05 - 2018/02/07)
Meeting (Other)
 Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/02/05 - 2020/02/07 Annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology. Included talks by internationally recognized speakers and submitted oral presentations.
Meeting
 50th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2019/11/12 - 2019/11/13 Annual meeting of the PhD students of the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa. Included keynote speeches by internationally recognized researchers, as well as poster and oral sessions from students.
Meeting
 5th Students Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019/10/04 - 2019/10/06 Bi-annual meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience. Included talks by internationally recognized speakers and submitted oral and poster presentations.
Meeting
 28th Bi-annual Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience
Panepistemio Kretes Iatrike Schole, Greece
2019/10/01 - 2019/10/05 5-day international workshop focusing on Neuropsychopharmacology. Included talks by research experts, poster presentations and collaborative work sessions between students and lecturers.
Workshop
 Drugs and the Brain: from laboratory to clinic
Panepistemio Kretes Iatrike Schole, Greece

International Brain Research Organization, France

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
2019/09/08 - 2019/09/28 3-week course focusing on multiple whole-brain imaging approaches, featuring daily lectures by experts and two week-long hands-on projects.
Workshop
 CAJAL Whole-Brain Imaging Course
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium

Université de Bordeaux, France

Fédération Bordeaux Neurocampus, France
2019/08/28 - 2019/08/31 Bi-annual meeting of the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society. Included talks by internationally recognized speakers and submitted oral and poster presentations.
Meeting
 18th bi-annual meeting of the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
2019/08/28 - 2019/08/28 1-day workshop organized by the European Behavioral Pharmacology Society, around the topic of methods of behavioral research.
Workshop
 European Behavioral Pharmacology Society Young Scientist Workshop
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
2019/05/30 - 2019/06/01 Bi-annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience. Included talks by internationally recognized speakers and submitted oral and poster presentations.
Conference
 16th bi-annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2019/05/03 - 2019/05/04 Annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Experimental Psychology. Included talks by internationally recognized speakers and submitted oral presentations.
Meeting
 14th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Experimental Psychology
Universidade de Évora Departamento de Psicologia, Portugal
2019/02/06 - 2019/02/07 Annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology. Included talks by internationally recognized speakers and submitted oral presentations.
Meeting
 49th annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Pharmacology
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/02 Workshop on statistics and statistical analysis software. Included theoretical sessions, and practical sessions with both R and IBM SPSS softwares. Organized by the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa.
Workshop
 Workshop on statistics - from basic to advanced level
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2018/12/17 - 2018/12/19 Workshop held to promote the connection between scientific researchers and artists, as a form of popularizing scientific research.
Workshop
 Disrupt > Encode > Consolidate!" BioArt Workshop
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
2018/12/11 - 2018/12/13 Annual meeting of the Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks (SynaNet) members. Held in Lisbon, Portugal.
Meeting
 3rd Annual Meeting of the “Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks” - SynaNet Project
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2018/11/14 - 2018/11/15 Annual meeting of the PhD students of the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa. Included keynote speeches by internationally recognized researchers, as well as poster and oral sessions from students.
Meeting
 4th Students Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/11/03 - 2018/11/07 Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the biggest neuroscience society in the world. Event held in San Diego, California, United States of America.
Congress
 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Society for Neuroscience, United States
2018/10/23 - 2018/10/26 Symposium focused on the use of quantitative approaches for the assessment of behavior in Neuroscience research. Included talks by internationally recognized experts, and poster sessions.
Symposium
 Champalimaud Research Symposium 2018 - Quantitative Approaches to Behavior and Neural Systems
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2018/09/13 - 2018/09/16 International conference of Young European Scientists. Included talks by internationally recognized experts from multiple biomedicine-related fields, and poster presentations.
Meeting
 13th YES - Young European Scientist - Meeting
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018/09/03 - 2018/09/08 Summer school focused on the the acquisition, processing and analysis of electroencephalograpy (EEG) data, with a special focus on the topic of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs).
Workshop
 VII CAN – 7th 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
2018/07/25 - 2018/07/25 One-day workshop concerning the technical aspects of eye-tracking, and the use of this technique for multidisciplinary research, organized by the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa.
Workshop
 Methods and Research on Gaze Tracking
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/06/21 - 2018/06/22 First of a annual series of workshops focused on the study of the cognitive science of culture.
Meeting
 I Workshop on Cognitive Science of Culture - Literacy: an acculturation of the brain.
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal
2018/01/16 - 2018/01/18 Annual meeting of the Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks (SynaNet) members. Held in Lisbon, Portugal.
Meeting
 2nd Annual Meeting of the “Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks” - SynaNet Project
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2017/10/19 - 2017/10/20 Annual meeting of the PhD students of the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa. Included keynote speeches by internationally recognized researchers, as well as poster and oral sessions from students.
Meeting
 3rd Students Meeting of Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/09/04 - 2017/09/22 Animal science course required for licensing to work with experimental animals. Included theoretical and practical sessions on several aspects of animal welfare, ethics and experimental procedures.
Workshop
 Laboratory Animal Science Course (for functions A, C and D of Rodents and Fish)
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2016/06/02 - 2016/06/03 Introductory workshop on methods and applications of brain imaging, organized by the Mind-Brain College of Universidade de Lisboa.
Workshop
 Brain Imaging: an introductory workshop on research and clinical applications
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia
2018 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências
2018 - Current Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Distinctions

Award

2022 EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant to visit the lab of Zsolt Lenkei at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris
European Molecular Biology Organization, Germany
2021 First prize in the Annual CAML PhD Students’ meeting competition (Pitch Presentation Category)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019 4-year PhD Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2021 Travel Grant - Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências, Portugal
2019 Travel Grant - Cajal Whole-Brain Imaging Course (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France)
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany
2019 Travel Grant - "Drugs and the Brain: from laboratory to clinic" (University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece)
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium

International Brain Research Organization, France
2018 Travel Grant - “Disrupt > Encode > Consolidate” collaborative Bio-Art Workshop" (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Horizon 2020, Belgium

Lancaster University, United Kingdom