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Research interests

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Domain of specialization:

Mathematical modelling of human physiology and pharmacology for educational simulation and statistical methods applied to biomedical and health/medical research.

 

Current research interests:

Statistical methods applied to health research, teaching methods to improve the educational process, and modelling and control of physiological systems for educational simulation.

 

Other professional interests/activities:

Computational numerical methods, programming languages, and software design and development

 

Scientific adviser

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Co-Adviser of Carla Gouveia in the Doctorate of Health Sciences and Tecnology, University of Aveiro, entitled “Neuromuscular Electrostimulation vs TraditionalTherapy in the Stroke Patient with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: Randomized Study”. Started in September 2022 and to be concluded in September 2025.

 

Co-Adviser of João Batista in the Doctorate of Health Sciences and Tecnology, University of Aveiro, entitled “tDCS stimulation protocol - impact on social interaction and communication of children with Autism: A Double-Blind RCT”. Started in September 2023 and to be concluded in September 2026.

 

Adviser of Matilde Gomes in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Relatório de estágio no Centro Hospital e Universitário de Coimbra, EPE, em análise estatística na àrea de Invevestigação Clínica”. Concluded in December 2023.

 

Adviser of Gabriela Nogueira in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Experiência em context de vida real do uso de BIC/TAF/FTC num hospital Português para o tratamento da infeção por HIV-1”. Concluded in December 2023.

 

Adviser of Juliana Reis in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Impact of simple and complex wounds on nursing workload assessment in an intensive care unit between 2015 and 2019”. () Concluded in December 2022.

 

Adviser of Doris Abejide in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Intraclass correlation coefficient for inter- and intra-rater reliability based on numerical outcomes”. () Concluded in December 2022.

 

Adviser of Vânia Semedo in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Relatório de Estágio Curricular Realizado na CEFAR- Associação Nacional das Farmácias” [Portuguese]. () Concluded in December 2022.

 

Co-Adviser of Maria Domingues in the Master of of Medical Imaging Technologies, University of Aveiro, entitled “Variabilidade do volume do reto e o impacto do horário de CT/tratamento de radioterapia em doentes com adenocarcinoma da próstata” [Portuguese]. Concluded in December 2022

 

Adviser of Beatriz Viegas in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Relatório de Estágio Curricular Realizado na PORDATA – Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/34569). Concluded in July 2022.

 

Adviser of Mariana Fernandes in the Master of Medical Statistics, University of Aveiro, entitled “Relatório de estágio no Serviço de Urologia e Transplantação Renal do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, EPE” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/33818) Concluded in December 2021.

 

Co-Adviser of Carla Gouveia in Master of Speach Therapy, University of Aveiro, entitled “Electroestimulação versus Terapia Tradicional no paciente com ELA com Disfagia orofaríngea: Efeitos na Qualidade de Vida” [Portuguese]. Concluded in February 2021.

 

Co-Adviser of Susana Portinha in Master of Speach Therapy, University of Aveiro, entitled “Prevalence of sarcopenic dysphagia in the geriatric population”. Concluded in December 2020.

 

Co-Adviser of Serafim Guimarães in the Doctorate of Health Sciences and Tecnology, University of Aveiro, entitled “Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Chronic Kidney Disease: analysis of self-reported indicators of experiencing chronic disease”. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/27993) Concluded in September 2019.

 

Co-Adviser of Fábio Costa in Master of Multimedia Communication, University of Aveiro, entitled “e-CuidHaMUs- Plataforma de apoio á promoção da saúde e do bem estar” [Portuguese]. Concluded in December 2019.

 

Co-Adviser of Filipa Cerveira in Master of Speach Therapy, University of Aveiro, entitled “Tradução e Validação para o Português Europeu do “ORAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT TOOL (OHAT) for LONG-TERM CARE”” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/29748). Concluded in December 2019.

 

Co-Adviser of Tiago Ribeiro in Master of Multimedia Communication, University of Aveiro, entitled “Implementação de um sistema de monitorização de dados clínicos” [Portuguese]. Concluded in December 2018.

 

Adviser of Inês Machado in the Master of Gerontology, University of Aveiro, entitled “Identificação das pessoas idosas frágeis na comunidade” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23031) Concluded in December 2017.

 

Co-Adviser of Mauro Antunes in the Master in Industrial Automation Engineering, University of Aveiro, entitled “Simulador de auscultação pulmonar” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23770) Concluded in December 2017.

 

Co-Adviser of Isac Cossa in the Master in Industrial Automation Engineering, University of Aveiro, entitled “Geração de fala para manequim de simulação clínica” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23676) Concluded in November 2017.

 

Co-Adviser of Helena Paninhos in the Master of Medical Imaging Technologies, University of Aveiro, entitled “Discovery IQ 4R- otimização da imagem PET-CT em ambiente clínico” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18794) Concluded in July 2017.

 

Adviser of Maria José Santiago in the Master of Mathematics and Applications, University of Aveiro, entitled “Métodos para estimação da fiabilidade e concordância entre avaliadores” [Portuguese] (). Concluded in December 2016.

 

Adviser of Lénia Costa in the Master of Gerontology, University of Aveiro, entitled “Promoção do cuidado centrado na funcionalidade em lares: perceção das ajudantes de lar” [Portuguese] (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16391). Concluded in July 2016.

 

Adviser of Liliana Abreu in the Master of Speech Therapy, School of Health Sciences of Alcoitão, entitled “Protocolo de Segurança na Avaliação Nasolaringoscópica da Deglutição(PSAND): contributo para a validação cultural e linguística do português Europeu” [Portuguese] (http://comum.rcaap.pt/handle/10400.26/16640). Concluded in May 2016.

 

Co-Adviser of Liliana Tribuna in the Master of Medical Imaging Technologies, University of Aveiro, entitled “Relatórios estruturados em imagiologia mamária” [Portuguese]. (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17155) Concluded in December 2016.

 

Co-Adviser of Verónica Ribau in the Master of Medical Imaging Technologies, University of Aveiro, entitled “Hipertrofia ventricular direita pelo eletrocardiograma e ecocardiograma” [Portuguese] (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16586). Concluded in July 2016.

 

Co-Adviser of Cátia Rodrigues in the Master of Multimedia Communication, University of Aveiro, entitled “Sistema de monitorização de dados clínicos no âmbito do LabEP” [Portuguese] (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16362). Concluded in December 2015.

 

Co-Adviser of Ana Almeida in the Master of Sciences in Education (Special Education), School of Education of Lisboa, entitled “Inclusão educativa dos alunos com multideficiênciaImportância das unidades especializadas em multideficiência” [Portuguese] (http://hdl.handle.net/10437/1481). Concluded in December 2011.

 

Participation in jury members

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President of the jury in Master’s thesis defense of Eline Barbosa entitled “Monitorização ambulatorial da pressão arterial em grávidas com disturbios hipertensivos” [Portuguese] in the Master of Medical Statistics. December 2023

 

Examiner member in Master’s thesis defense of Lino Carvalho entitled “Efeitos de Sobredosagem na Indução da Anestesia: Análise Multivariada de Dados” [Portuguese] in the Master of Biostatistics and Biometrics. University Aberta, Porto, Portugal. December 2023

 

President of the jury in Master’s thesis defense of Guilherme Rodrigues entitled “Decoding the genetic architecture of functional status in COPD: Lasso and its derivatives for feature selection” in the Master of Medical Statistics. June 2023

 

Examiner member in Master’s thesis defense of João Oliveira entitled “Programação de relatórios de dados clínicos para submissão regulamentar de ensaios clínicos de phase I” in the Master of Clinical  Bioinformatics. June 2023

 

President of the jury in Master’s thesis defense of Miguel Cabral entitled “Desenvolvimento e análise de um sistema de recomendação para sugestão de artigos médicos” [Portuguese] in the Master of Medical Statistics. November 2022

 

Examiner member in Master’s thesis defense of Diogo Ribeiro entitled “Internship in Medical Writing at a Clinical Research Organization” in the Master of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine. December 2016

 

Examiner member in Master’s thesis defense of Liljana Georgievska da Silva entitled “Curricular Internship Report in Medical Writing at Blueclinical” in the Master of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15799). December 2015

 

Examiner member in Master’s thesis defense of Ana Farrica entitled “Internship in Clinical Data Management at a Clinical Research Organization (CRO)” in the Master of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine (http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15136). July 2015

 

Scholarships

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Responsible for the BII-BIOMATH-5-2023 scholarship (5 months duration), with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), ref. UIDP/04106/2020, with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC) entitled “Análise estatística de desenhos adaptativos e cruzados em ensaios clínicos” [Portuguese]. 2023

 

Responsible for the BI-BIOMATH-5-2022 scholarship (3 months duration), with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), ref. UIDP/04106/2020, with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC) entitled “Análise estatística de desenhos cruzados em ensaios clínicos” [Portuguese]. 2022

 

Responsible for the BI-BIOMATH-3-2021 scholarship (4 months duration), with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), ref. UIDP/04106/2020, with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC) entitled “Análise estatística de desenhos adaptativos em ensaios clínicos” [Portuguese]. 2021

 

Responsible for the BI-BIOMATH-5-2021 scholarship (4 months duration), with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through the Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), ref. UIDP/04106/2020, with the financial support of the Foundation for Science and Technology/MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC) entitled “Análises fatoriais confirmatórias e modelação de equações estruturais em escalas psicossociais e de saúde no trabalho” [Portuguese]. 2021