EXPERIENCE

Lab Manager & Research Software Engineer

NOVA SBE

2025–Current

Cascais, Portugal

• Managed IT and lab resources for experimentation and teaching
• Developed and validated software for data collection and automation
• Created end-user evaluation methods for clients in SaaS and AI solutions

Skills: Data and software engineering, system administration

Graduate Researcher

Fundação Champalimaud

2018–2024

Lisboa, Portugal

• Designed and assembled neurobehavioral setups for mouse research
• Engineered multi-stream data acquisition systems (NI DAQ + 430 fps video)
• Computationally optimized estimation of firing rates from big data (30x faster)
• Tracked animal movement (classical image processing + deep CNNs)
• Predicted animal behavior from neural data (neural decoding by multilinear regression)
• Deployed virtual containers for large scale neural simulations in remote servers

Skills: DAQ electronics, multi-sensor integration, computer vision, GPU computing, artificial neural networks, Docker

Software Engineer & Data Scientist

Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica

2017

Lisboa, Portugal

• Created a medical imaging analysis pipeline for pre-surgical planning
• Tuned blind source separation models for functional imaging in patients
• Communicated closely with medicine and engineering teams
• Automated the generation of functional imaging reports

Skills: Matlab, Blind Source Separation, DICOM

Game Software Developer

Museu dos Valores Universais

2016

Mafra, Portugal

• Implemented a facial mimicry interactive game for children

Skills: Unity, C#, Affectiva AI

Researcher / MSc. Student

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL

2014–2015

London, England

• Developed hardware and software for human behavioral experiments
• Quantified behavior through timeseries analysis
• Estimated neural encoding schema via multivariate analysis

Skills: Computer Aided Design, C++, Matlab