Ricardo Martins

Ongoing Research Projects

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    AIMS-2-TRIALS - Autism Innovative Medicine Studies – 2 – Trials

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2018 - 2025
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC, CIBIT-UC, (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    iNaturalist - Portugal (biodiversity4all)

    • Research Field: citizen science
    • Time Span: 2016 - now
    • Role: Recording, mapping, identifying, and sharing observations of biodiversity.
    • More info: [website]

Past projects

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    NeuroHyst - Neural mechanisms underlying positive and negative perceptual hysteresis

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2021 - 2024
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC, CIBIT-UC, (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    Affective disorders- biomarkers and early detection

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2018 - 2022
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    BioMuScle - Novel multimodal imaging biomarkers of neuronal connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2018 - 2022
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC (João Valente Duarte's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    Brain Elasticity in Multiple Sclerosis and implications in mechanomodulation of oligodendrocytes - a cellular and clinical approach

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2018 - 2022
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    CIBIT science club at Martim de Freitas school - The Scientific Method

    • Research Field: Science Dissimination; Scientific Literacy
    • Time Span: 2019 - 2021
    • Role: Research team member, CIBIT-UC, ICNAS-UC
    • More info: [website]
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    MEDPERSYST - Synaptic networks and Personalized Medicine Approaches to Understand Neurobehavioural Diseases Across the Lifespan

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2017 - 2020
    • Role: Post-doctoral Fellow, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    The role of motion adaptation in bottom-up mechanisms of perceptual decision-making

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2017 - 2019
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    Multimodal mapping of visual motion perceptual decision - Dissecting the role of different motion integration areas in visual surface reconstruction

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2016 - 2017
    • Role: Research team member, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    Trabalho multidisciplinar no âmbito da ressonância funcional e tomografia de emissão de positrões

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2015 - 2017
    • Role: MSc researcher, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    From molecules to man - novel diagnostic imaging tools in neurological and psychiatric disorders

    • Research Field: Cognitive Neuroscience; Biomedical Engineering; Translational neuroscience
    • Time Span: 2014 - 2015
    • Role: MSc researcher, ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    Development of techniques for haptic object exploration - a contribution forautonomous robotic hands

    • Research Field: Robotics; Automation; Computational Modeling; Artificial Perception
    • Time Span: 2010 - 2017
    • Role: PhD student, ISR-UC (Jorge Dias' team) ICNAS-UC (Miguel Castelo-Branco's team)
    • More info: [website]
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    HANDLE - Developmental pathway towards autonomy and dexterity in robot in-hand manipulation

    • Research Field: Robotics; Automation; Computational Modeling; Artificial Perception
    • Time Span: 2008 - 2013
    • Role: MSc researcher, ISR-UC (Jorge Dias' team)
    • More info: [website]
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    PROMETHEUS - Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors

    • Research Field: Robotics; Automation; Computational Modeling; Artificial Perception
    • Time Span: 2008 - 2009
    • Role: MSc researcher, ISR-UC (Jorge Dias' team)
    • More info: [website]
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    EPILEPSIAE - Evolving Platform for Improving the Living Expectations of Patients Suffering from IctAl Events

    • Research Field: Medical informatics; Machine Learning
    • Time Span: 2008
    • Role: Master Student, CISUC-UC (Antonio Dourado's team)
    • More info: [website]