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João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues, post-doc. Currently a post-doc researcher at the Brain Mind Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). I obtained my PhD in Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering in 2015 from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa and finished my MSc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade de Lisboa. My main interests are the use of neuro-stimulation techniques for neuro-psychiatric disorders and general well being, virtual reality for brain computer interfaces and machine learning for human behavior.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

Citation names

  • Rodrigues, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7F15-7804-7102
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4492-7767

Email addresses

  • joao.rodrigues@epfl.ch (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+41) 787653199 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Telecommunications
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
  • Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
  • Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering - Medical Laboratory Technology
  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2011 - 2015/05/28
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"New methodologies for directed functional connectivity applied to brain neuroimaging research" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor
2009
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Monitoring Electrocortical Activity During EEG Biofeedback" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/11/16 - Current Postdoc (Research) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Faculté des sciences de la vie, Switzerland
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Brain Mind Institute, Switzerland

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/01/01 - 2015/06/01 CET Teacher Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2014/07/01 - 2014/12/30 Research Collaborator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/01/01 - 2014/06/01 CET Teacher Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2012/12/17 - 2013/12/16 Technical Support for Users Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2011/12/01 - 2012/12/01 Research Collaborator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2012/01/01 CET Teacher Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011/06/30 Research Collaborator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010/02/01 - 2010/07/31 Research Collaborator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/07/01 - 2014/12/31 Desenvolvimento de métodos para o estudo da excitabilidade e conectividade funcional do cérebro humano
PEst-OE/SAU/UI0645/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
Concluded
2011/12/01 - 2012/12/01 Neuroimagem Dinâmica não-invasiva em Epilepsia
PTDC/SAU-ENB/112294/2009
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011/06/01 Investigação neuroimagiológica de mecanismos de aprendizagem no cérebro humano: novas abordagens metodológicas
PTDC/SAU-BEB/65977/2006
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2010/06/01 GAIA - National Participation in the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium
PDCTE/CTE-AST/81711/2003
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Contract

Designation Funders
2015/11/15 - Current Tackling the links between stress and violence: An integrated approach to treat pathological aggression in humans
OAK
Researcher
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Brain Mind Institute, Switzerland
 The Oak foundation
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rodrigues, João. "EEG Biofeedback: Viability and Future Directions". 2012.
    10.1007/978-3-642-23187-2_35
  2. Rodrigues, João. "Object Recognition Test in Peripheral Vision: A Study on the Influence of Object Color, Pattern and Shape". 2012.
    10.1007/978-3-642-35139-6_3
  3. Rodrigues, João. "Dream Therapy: Correlation of Dream Contents with Encephalographic and Cardiovascular Activations". 2011.
    10.1007/978-3-642-18047-7_5
Conference paper
  1. Rodrigues, João. "Neurofeedback for the treatment of schizophrenia: Case study". 2012.
    10.1109/vecims.2012.6273182
  2. Rodrigues, João. "A Further Study on Short Term Memory Improvement by Neurofeedback". 2012.
    10.1109/icbeb.2012.25
  3. Rodrigues, João. "A New Approach for Granger Causality between Neuronal Signals using the Empirical Mode Decomposition Algorithm". 2012.
    10.2316/p.2012.764-147
  4. Rodrigues, João P.; Semedo, João D.; Migotina, Daria G.; Melicio, Fernando M.; Pereira, Jose G.; Rosa, Agostinho C. da. "Peripheral Vision Dynamic Test for Athletes". 2012.
    10.2316/p.2012.764-076
  5. Rodrigues, João. "EEG training platform: Improving Brain-Computer Interaction and cognitive skills". 2010.
    10.1109/hsi.2010.5514535
  6. Rodrigues, João. "PERIPHERAL VISION PATTERN DETECTION DYNAMIC TEST". 2010.
    10.5220/0002977402420247
Journal article
  1. Rodrigues, João. "Metabolic signature in nucleus accumbens for anti-depressant-like effects of acetyl-L-carnitine". eLife (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.50631.
    10.7554/elife.50631
  2. Cristina Berchio; João Rodrigues; Alina Strasser; Christoph M. Michel; Carmen Sandi. "Trait anxiety on effort allocation to monetary incentives: a behavioral and high-density EEG study". Translational Psychiatry (2019): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0508-4.
    10.1038/s41398-019-0508-4
  3. Rodrigues, João. "Chronic corticosterone aggravates behavioral and neuronal symptomatology in a mouse model of alpha-synuclein pathology". Neurobiology of Aging (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.08.007.
    10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.08.007
  4. Rodrigues, João. "Neurofeedback training with a low-priced EEG device leads to faster alpha enhancement but shows no effect on cognitive performance: A single-blind, sham-feedback study". PLOS ONE (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211668.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0211668
  5. K. Chamilothori; G. Chinazzo; J. Rodrigues; E.S. Dan-Glauser; J. Wienold; M. Andersen. "Subjective and physiological responses to façade and sunlight pattern geometry in virtual reality". Building and Environment 150 (2019): 144-155. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.buildenv.2019.01.009.
    10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.01.009
  6. Janir da Cruz; João Rodrigues; John C Thoresen; Vitaly Chicherov; Patrícia Figueiredo; Michael H Herzog; Carmen Sandi. "Dominant men are faster in decision-making situations and exhibit a distinct neural signal for promptness". Cerebral Cortex 28 10 (2018): 3740-3751. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fcercor%2Fbhy195.
    10.1093/cercor/bhy195
  7. Rodrigues, João. "Hierarchical Status Predicts Behavioral Vulnerability and Nucleus Accumbens Metabolic Profile Following Chronic Social Defeat Stress". Current Biology (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.027.
    10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.027
  8. Rodrigues, João. "micompr: An R Package for Multivariate Independent Comparison of Observations". The R Journal (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.32614/rj-2016-055.
    10.32614/rj-2016-055
  9. Rodrigues, João. "Synthetic neuronal datasets for benchmarking directed functional connectivity metrics". PeerJ (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.923.
    10.7717/peerj.923
  10. Rodrigues, João. "Causal inference in neuronal time-series using adaptive decomposition". Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.02.013.
    10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.02.013
  11. Rodrigues, João. "Dynamic peripheral visual performance relates to alpha activity in soccer players". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00913.
    10.3389/fnhum.2014.00913
  12. Rodrigues, João. "Lag-based effective connectivity applied to fMRI: A simulation study highlighting dependence on experimental parameters and formulation". NeuroImage (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.029.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.029
  13. João Rodrigues; Alexandre Andrade. "Instantaneous Granger Causality with the Hilbert-Huang Transform". ISRN Signal Processing 2013 (2013): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/374064.
    10.1155/2013/374064
  14. Rodrigues, João. "Individual alpha neurofeedback training effect on short term memory". International Journal of Psychophysiology (2012): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.182.
    10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.182
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Rodrigues, João. "New methodologies for directed functional connectivity applied to brain neuroimaging research". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/18375.

Other

Other output
  1. Alpha Neurofeedback Training with a portable Low-Priced and Commercially Available EEG Device Leads to Faster Alpha Enhancement. A Single-blind, Sham-feedback Controlled Study & Methodological Review. 2019. Adrian Naas; João Rodrigues; Jan-Philipp Knirsch; Andreas Sonderegger. https://doi.org/10.1101%2F527598.
    10.1101/527598
  2. Chronic corticosterone enhancement aggravates alpha-synuclein brain spreading pathology and substantia nigra neurodegeneration in mice. 2018. Johannes Burtscher; Jean-Christophe Copin; Joao Rodrigues; Senthil K. Thangaraj; Anass Chiki; Marie-Isabelle Guillot de Suduiraut; Carmen Sandi; Hilal A. Lashuel. https://doi.org/10.1101%2F469999.
    10.1101/469999
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018 Using virtual reality in the Lab
Geneva Haute École d’Arts Appliqué (Geneva)
2016 Data-driven analysis of neuroimaging data using directed functional connectivity.
Human Brain Seminar, Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie, Lausanne University Hospital (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Self-Imitation and public-speaking: How being exposed to a Virtual Self affects physiology and self-report assessment.
Co-supervisor
 Neuroscience (Master)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2018 - Current Brain-dependent Effects of Trait-Anxiety in Intrinsic Motivation.
Co-supervisor
 Neuroscience (Master)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 EPFL SV Portes Ouvertes, 2019. Scientific outreach for the general public. (2019 - 2019)
Exhibition
 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2019 - 2019 VIrtual reality and Biomarkers’ Effects on Skills training is a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF – Sinergia). (2019 - 2019)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 - 2016 EPFL SV Portes Ouvertes, 2016. Scientific outreach for the general public. (2016 - 2016)
Exhibition (Other)
 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2010 - Current Poster Presentations: IBBRC, Haifa, 2020 EBBS, Prage, 2019 FENS 2018, Berlin, 2018 OHBM 2014, Hamburg, 2014 OHBM 2011, Québec City, 2011 HCI, Funchal, Madeira, 2010 ICHSI, IEEE, Poland, 2010
Conference
2018 - 2018 Planète Santé. Science outreach and health related exhibition.
Exhibition
 Planète Santé
2018 - 2018 Festival International du Film de Genève. Exhibitor and running in public event experiment.
Festival
 Festival International du Film de Genève, 2018
2012 - 2015 Oral communications: 27º Encontro Nacional de Epileptologia, Coimbra, 2015 Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck, 2012
Conference

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019 Connectivity-based EEG-neurofeedback in VR: pipeline development and experimental validation
(Thesis) Arguer
 Cristiano Berhanu (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015 TMS-EEG combined with Granger Causality – An innovative information flow approach over the full brain connectivity
(Thesis) Arguer
 Tiago Fernandes (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2018 Cinema of tomorrow : the narrative controlled by the brain. Bilan

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2020/02/25 - Current El cazador de cerebros, RTVE Research
2019 - Current “CQFD” RTS la 1ère

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015 - Current Academic reviewer: publons.com/a/1208680/