Marco Simões
PhD | Researcher | Assistant Professor
Marco is a researcher at CISUC and CIBIT, using data science applied to neuroimaging data (EEG and fMRI) to study the neurocorrelates of social and functional task in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, using Virtual Reality for recreation of realistic environments. My main goal is to develop methods to improve the understanding, diagnosis and rehabilitation of those disorders.
He holds a PhD degree in Information Sciences and Technologies developed in partnership between CIBIT and the Department of Informatics Engineering, both from the University of Coimbra in Portugal.
He is also an invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering where he has lectured several courses (Information Theory, Databases, Advanced Java Programming, Advanced Programming Laboratory, Graphical Computing, Compilers, etc).