Welcome

Hi! I am Ricardo Martins, a quantitative neuroimaging research technician at the Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra (UC), working at the intersection of engineering, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience. Trained as a biomedical engineer (2008), I hold a PhD in electrical and computer engineering (2017) focused on multimodal signal processing and computational models of artificial perception in autonomous robots, expertise I have extended and applied to the computational study of the human brain.

I investigate behaviour, brain structure, and function using multimodal neuroimaging techniques (sMRI: morphometry and volumetry; fMRI: task-based brain activations and functional connectivity; PET: kinetic modelling and quantification) in healthy populations and clinical cohorts spanning neurology (Parkinsonian syndromes, Alzheimer's disease, stroke) and psychiatry (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism). I have developed computational pipelines integrating multivariate brain image processing, biostatistics, computational modelling, and machine learning to identify neural correlates of cognitive and behavioural phenotypes, and to propose candidate biomarkers of brain health, neuropsychiatric disease stratification, and treatment response.

This website provides an overview of my work, including my curriculum vitae, publications, key research topics, projects and demos, and contact information.