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WHO AM I?

Hello there! My name is João, I was born in Coimbra, Portugal.

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I studied Biomedical Engineering at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In the last year of my undergraduate degree I had a one-year Erasmus experience living in Italy, during which I carried my Master thesis, in the University of Pavia. I completed a PhD in Health Sciences at the University of Coimbra. Using fMRI as a primary tool, I was particularly interested in human visual perception. I studied also brain structure and function in the context of health and disease. Currently I am a post-doc at CIBIT-ICNAS (University of Coimbra), doing research in the area of neuroimaging and machine learning applied to both basic and translational neuroscience.

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Outside of my research, my interests lie in sports, traveling, writing, geography and languages. I played rink hockey since I was 6 years old, currently I am a coach and an enthusiastic fan.

NEWS

  • February 2020: "We are very pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication in NeuroImage: Clinical."
    Madeira N, Duarte JV, Martins R, Costa N, Macedo A, Castelo-Branco M (2020): Morphometry and gyrification in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: a comparative MRI study.
     

  • May 2019: "A Janssen vem por este meio felicitá-lo na conquista do 1º lugar na categoria de Séries Clínicas do Janssen Neuroscience RWE Award 2019."
     

  • April 2019: "We are pleased to inform you that your abstract "Investigating whole-brain MRI markers in neuropsychiatric disorders – separating disease duration from medication effects in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder" for the Conference "XVI Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN2019)" has  been published.
     

  • January 2019: "We are delighted to inform you that your application was successful and you have been accepted to attend the 7th ECTRIMS Summer School 2019 on “Methodology of clinical research and statistics” in Dublin, Ireland.
     

  • December 2018: "We are delighted to accept your manuscript for publication in Scientific Reports."
    Sousa T, Duarte JV, et al. (2019): Tracking perceptual decision mechanisms through changes in interhemispheric functional connectivity in human visual cortex. Read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37822-x
     

  • November 2018: Invited talk on visual perception studied with neuroimaging @CNC.IBILI - Coimbra, Portugal
     

  • June 2018: "We are very pleased to inform you that your manuscript referenced above has been accepted for publication in NeuroImage." Sousa T, Campos AS, et al. (2018): Evidence for distinct levels of neural adaptation to both coherent and incoherently moving visual surfaces in visual area hMT+. Read it here:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29964186
     

  • May 2018: Invited talk on machine learning in neuroimaging @Meetup Data Science - Coimbra, Portugal
     

  • March 2018: Newly (first!) project funded as Principal Investigator - Novel multimodal imaging biomarkers of neuronal connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis

CONTACT ME

joaovduarte@gmail.com
Feel free to send me a note about anything.

I AM HERE!

COIMBRA, PORTUGAL

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