About

I am a research scientist and lecturer in the domain of cognitive, neuro-inspired AI. I have always been fascinated by the brain and how its complex electrochemical circuitry gives rise to cognition and behavior. Providing a meaningful contribution to our understanding of how the brain computes the mind is thus one of my most ambitious life goals and a pursuit I feel very passionate about. My research aims to unravel fundamental computational principles and mechanisms of neural information processing (with a particular emphasis on the mammalian neocortex) and to exploit them to develop adaptive intelligent systems. I am particularly interested in sequential rule learning and the acquisition and representation of temporal structure across different scales in modular, hierarchical systems.

Interests
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neurobiology and Neurophysiology
  • Synaptic Biophysics and Dynamics
Education
  • Dr. rer. Nat. (PhD) in Computational Neuroscience, 2018

    Erasmus Mundus joint degree (EuroSPIN): Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg & University of Edinburgh

  • MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, 2011

    University of Algarve

  • BSc in Pharmaceutical Science, 2009

    University of Coimbra

Positions

Scientific Appointments

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
Oct 2021 – Present Nijmegen, Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 
Guest Researcher
Jan 2019 – Present Nijmegen, Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Researcher (guest)
Mar 2013 – Mar 2014 Bochum, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Researcher (mobility period)
Aug 2012 – Feb 2013 Edinburgh, UK
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Researcher (host period)
Feb 2012 – Jul 2012 Freiburg, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Courses & Workshops

Relevant Training

Neuro-anatomical foundations of cortical computation
See certificate

Teaching & Mentorship

Lecturer / Tutor

29th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 2020)
(remote) Tutorial T1: New interfaces for teaching with NEST: hands-on with the NEST Desktop GUI and NESTML code generation, organization and supervision
Neuro-inspired Computing
(remote) Lecture and project supervision
Biological Neural Network Simulation
Tutoring
Introduction to Scientific Programming in Python
Lectures and tutoring
Advanced Seminar: Cognitive Psychology
Project specification and tutoring

Grants & Awards

Umbrella Award on Life Science and Engineering; Data Analytics, NeuroScience and Multiscale Approaches and Applications
Relative to Doctoral research work
Computing Time Grant: Functional Neural Architectures
Principal Investigator (PI)
Computing Time Grant: Synaptic timescales and online processing memory
Principal Investigator (PI)