Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- RENATO CARLOS FARINHA DUARTE
Citation names
- Duarte, Renato
- Renato Carlos Farinha Duarte
- Renato Carlos F Duarte
- Renato C F Duarte
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0316-A9B4-70CA
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6099-667X
- Google Scholar ID
- NeD4kokAAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- N-6981-2013
- Scopus Author Id
- 56395014100
Email addresses
- renato.duarte@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Biocant Park, Cantanhede Technological Park, Núcleo 04, Lote 8, 3060-197, Cantanhede, Cantanhede, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://twitter.com/Renatocfduarte (Social media)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/renatocfduarte/ (Social media)
- https://www.comp-neuro.org/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
- Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
- Social Sciences - Psychology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2011 - 2018/05/03
Concluded
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral program in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience (EuroSPIN) (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
The University of Edinburgh Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, United Kingdom University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany "State-dependent processing with Spiking Neural Networks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Summa cum laude |
2009/10 - 2011/08
Concluded
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Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
"Self-organized sequence processing in a recurrent neural network with multiple interacting plasticity mechanisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
2009
Concluded
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Pharmaceutical Sciences (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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12 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
2018 - 2021 | Postdoc (Research) | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany |
2018/10 - 2020/08 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands |
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands (...) |
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2014/09 - 2018/08 | Researcher (Research) | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany |
2013/04 - 2014/08 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Kognitive Neurowissenschaft, Germany |
2011/09 - 2014/08 | Researcher (Research) | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany |
University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/10 - 2023/09 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands |
Radboud Universiteit Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Netherlands |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2011/09 - 2014/08 | EuroSPIN - European Study Programme In Neuroinformatics
PhD Student Fellow
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European Commission
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/01 - Current | DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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2022/02 - 2023/09 | Dutch Brain Interfaces Initiative (DBI2)
Researcher
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ongoing
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2015 - 2018 | Supercomputing and modeling for the Human brain (SMHB)
Researcher
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Helmholtz-Konsortium, Germany |
Helmholtz-Konsortium
Ongoing
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/05 - 2021/10 | Functional Neural Architectures
jinm60
Principal investigator
Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
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Helmholtz-Konsortium
Concluded
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2015/05 - 2018/04 | Synaptic timescales and online processing memory
jias61
Principal investigator
Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
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Helmholtz-Konsortium
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2021/05 | The neocortical synaptome: modular temporal specialization through molecular specialization | Umbrella Symposium: Data Analytics, Neuroscience and Multiscale Biomedical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany)
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2021/04 | The biophysical bases of temporal specialization and variable processing memory | Bordeaux Neuro-Symposium
INRIA Bordeaux (Bordeauz, France)
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2019/05 | State-dependent sequence processing with Spiking Neural Networks | NII Shonan Symposium no. 141: Language as Goal-Directed Sequential Behavior: Computational Theories, Brain Mechanisms, Evolutionary
Roots
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) (Kanagawa, Japan)
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2018/07 | Encoding Symbolic sequences with Spiking Neural Reservoirs | International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
IEEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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2018/05 | State-dependent processing in Spiking Neural Networks | Distinguished Seminars
Center for Biomedical Research (CBMR) (Faro, Portugal)
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2017/09 | Leveraging heterogeneity for neural computation with fading memory in layer 2/3 cortical microcircuits | Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD)
UCL (Capbreton, France)
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2014/12 | Synaptic adaptation stabilizes sequential stimulus representations | 7th International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization
Albert-Ludvigs University Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
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2014/11/27 | Dynamic stimulus representations in adapting neuronal networks | Human Brain Project (HBP) Workshop: Stochastic Neural Computation
European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) (Paris, France)
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2014/07 | Self-Organized Artificial Grammar Learning in Spiking Neural Networks | 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Cognitive Science Society (Quebec, Canada)
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2013/05 | Syntax processing properties of generic cortical cirucuits | Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting on The Brain as a Self-Organized Dynamical System
Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance (OCCAM) (Osnabrück, Germany)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2024/09/04 - 2024/09/13 | Computational Biology Summer School (Project supervisor and tutor) (2024/09/04 - 2024/09/13)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2023/04/03 - 2023/04/03 | Donders workshop on "Dendritic Computation" (2023/04/03 - 2023/04/03)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Radboud Universiteit Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands |
2020/07/18 - 2020/07/18 | New interfaces for teaching with NEST: hands-on with the NEST-Desktop GUI and NESTML code generation, tutorial session at
the 29th Annual Computational Neuroscience meeting (CNS-2020) (2020/07/18 - 2020/07/18)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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2012/09/03 - 2012/09/05 | iCoNet PhD Conference (2012/09/03 - 2012/09/05)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2024/09/29 - 2024/10/02 | Oral and Poster presentations on "Biophysical models of sequence learning"
Conference
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Bernstein Conference
BERNSTEIN AG, Germany
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2019/09/04 - 2019/09/05 | Cognomics: Bridging gaps from genes to cognition
Conference
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Cognomics
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
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2019/02/26 - 2019/02/26 | Neuroanatomical foundations of cortical computation
Conference
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Neuroanatomical foundations of cortical computation
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
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2018/10/23 - 2018/10/26 | Quantitative approaches to behavior and neural systems
Conference
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Champalimaud Research Symposium
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
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2018/07/08 - 2018/07/13 | Advances in Reservoir Computing
Workshop
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International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) |
2018/02/27 - 2018/02/27 | Cognitive Computation Symposium (CoCoSym): Thinking beyond Deep Learning
Symposium
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City University of London, United Kingdom
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2017/09/07 - 2017/09/08 | Integrated Systems Neuroscience (ISN)
Conference
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The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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2017/09 - 2017/09 | Computational Psychiatry Course
Seminar
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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
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2016/09/18 - 2016/09/20 | Hierarchical Processing Advanced Course
Seminar
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Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
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2015/09/05 - 2015/09/10 | Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD)
Conference
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NCCD 2015 |
2014/06/07 - 2014/06/08 | Practical brain network modeling with The Virtual Brain (TVB)
Workshop
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Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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2013/06/24 - 2013/07/05 | Advanced statistics and data mining summer school |
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Facultad de Informática, Spain
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2021/09 - Current | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) | Member |
2021/09 - Current | The ALBA network for diversity and equity in the brain sciences | Member |
2012/06 - Current | Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS) | Member |
2012 - Current | Bernstein Association | Member |
2006 - 2012 | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2024/02/05 - Current | Neuronal Circuits and Behavior (Guest Lecturer) | Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
2024/01/31 - Current | Synapse assembly, function and plasticity (Guest Lecturer) | Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
2021 - 2023 | Neural Computation | Neural Computation (Master) | Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands |
2021 - 2023 | Reinforcement Learning | Reinforcement Learning (Bachelor) | Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands |
2021 - 2021 | Neural Information Processing Systems (guest lecturer) | Neural Information Processing Systems (Master) | Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands |
2020/03/04 - 2020/03/13 | Computational Neuroscience | Spring School in Computational Neuroscience (Doktor (PhD)) | European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN), France |
2013 - 2017 | Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python | Psicologia (Bachelor) | Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Psychologie, Germany |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2021/10 - 2023/10 | Examination and evaluation committee for Bachelor thesis, BSc program in Artificial Intelligence
Evaluator
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Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands | |
2021/10 - 2023/10 | Supervision and evaluation of BSc theses projects in the BSc program in Artificial Intelligence
Coordinator
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Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands | |
2018/10 - 2023/10 | Daily supervision, assessment and evaluation of Master theses projects, MSc programs in Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive
Computing specialization) and Computer Science (neuro-inspired computing specialization)
Coordinator
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Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Fachgruppe Informatik, Germany |
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2018 - 2023 | Evaluation and examination committee for Master theses projects, MSc program in Artificial Intelligence (Cognitive Computing
specialization) and MSc program in Computer Science (Neuro-inspired Computing specialization)
Evaluator
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Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Fachgruppe Informatik, Germany |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2015 - Current | PLoS Computational Biology | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2024/03/08 - 2025/02/28 | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (1662-5188) | Frontiers |
2017 - 2017 | Brain Structure and Function | Springer Heidelberg |
Distinctions
Award
2022 | Educational innovation award: Combination of classic theory with modern tools and applications
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
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2020 | Umbrella award for doctoral dissertation
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany |
Title
2018 | Summa cum laude for doctoral dissertation
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
University of Freiburg Bernstein Center Freiburg, Germany |