Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Patricio Simoes
Citation names
- Simões, Patrício
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- AD1D-8E50-FED8
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9485-6448
- Google Scholar ID
- zx8_BWQAAAAJ
Email addresses
- P.M.Simoes@sussex.ac.uk (Professional)
Websites
- https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/patricio-simoes (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricio_Simoes2 (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zx8_BWQAAAAJ&hl=en (Professional)
- http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/507748 (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Zoology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Other Biological Topics
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
French | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
---|---|---|
2008/10/01 - 2013/01/19
Concluded
|
Zoology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, United Kingdom
"The influence of phase change on learning and memory in desert locusts" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
|
2008
Concluded
|
International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) (Outros)
Programa Champalimaud de Neurociências, Portugal
|
|
2007/04/12
Concluded
|
Ethology (Mestrado)
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada Centro de Investigacao, Portugal
"Cooperation in rats playing an interated Prisoner's dilemma game: influence of a game matrix formed with qualitatively distinct
payoffs" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
|
2002/12/02
Concluded
|
Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Morfologia e Distribuição dos Orgãos Sensoriais da Clava Antenar de Platypus cylindrus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
---|---|---|
2020/02/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | University of Sussex School of Life Sciences, United Kingdom |
2013/08/09 - 2020/01/31 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom |
2006/01/03 - 2006/11/30 | Research Assistant (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
2003/11/03 - 2005/12/01 | Research Assistant (Research) | Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
---|---|---|
2020/02/01 - Current | Synaptic computation in the visual system.
102905
Post-doc Fellow
|
|
2015/09/01 - Current | Interaction between sensory and supporting cells in the organ of Corti: basis for sensitivity and frequency selectivity of
mammalian cochlea
MR/N004299/1
Post-doc Fellow
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
|
Medical Research Council |
2013/08/07 - 2015/08/31 | Exploiting acoustic distortion by mosquitoes to listen on the wing.
RPG-2012-783
Post-doc Fellow
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
|
Leverhulme Trust
Concluded
|
2003/09/01 - 2005/09/01 | PHRAME - Development of Improved Pest Risk Analysis for quarantine pests, using pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus,
in Portugal as a model system.
QLK5-CT-2002-00672
Scientific Initiation Fellow
|
Concluded
|
Outputs
Publications
Conference abstract |
|
Conference poster |
|
Journal article |
|
Thesis / Dissertation |
|
Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
|
---|---|---|
2006/07/10 | Spicule Shape Analysis in the Genus Bursaphelencus Fuchs, 1937: A Numerical Taxonomy Approach | PINE WILT DISEASE: a worldwide threat to forest ecosystems
(Lisbon, Portugal)
|
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
|
---|---|---|
2019/05/07 - 2020/07/20 | The effect of the acoustic swarm environment on behaviour and electrophysiological response of male C. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes
Co-supervisor
|
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom |
2018/10/23 - 2019/05/03 | Potential Mechanisms of Divergent Selection and Reproductive Isolation in An. gambiae and An. colluzii
Supervisor
|
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
|
2018/10/23 - 2019/05/03 | Flight parameters of free-flying mosquitoes
Supervisor
|
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
|
2018/04/18 - 2018/06/18 | Hearing and flight behavior of male mosquitoes in dark conditions.
Supervisor
|
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
Université de Rennes 1 IUT de Saint-Brieuc, France |
2017/09/15 - 2017/12/15 | Behavioural observation and experimentation of the male mosquito swarming.
Supervisor
|
Erasmus + programme (Other)
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
Universidad de Murcia - Campus de Espinardo, Spain |
2017/04/10 - 2017/06/23 | Research about acoustic communication and hearing behaviour of mosquitoes during mating.
Supervisor
|
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
Université de Rennes 1 IUT de Saint-Brieuc, France |
2015/10/19 - 2016/05/06 | Does temperature have an effect on the mating behaviour and flight pattern of Culex mosquitoes?
Supervisor
|
Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
|
2015/10/15 - 2016/05/06 | Analysis of the RFM behaviour and flight path in free-flying male mosquitoes
Supervisor
|
Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
|
2014/10/16 - 2015/05/07 | The Pre-mating behaviour of free flying Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes in the presence of an obstacle.
Supervisor
|
Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
|
2013/10/20 - 2014/05/05 | Male Mosquitoes use wing beat frequency to establish hierarchy of dominance.
Co-supervisor
|
Biology Experimental Project (Other)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
|
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
---|---|---|
2016/10/12 - Current | VectorBiTE RCN - Vector Behavior in Transmission Ecology Research Coordination Network. | Member |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|
2016/05 - Current | Bioresources User Group of the University of Brighton: Internal platform to discuss matters in animal research and to ensure
facility users are compliant with UK legislation for Scientific Procedures on animals.
Member
|
University of Brighton, United Kingdom |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|
2015/06/01 - 2015/06/15 | Mosquito rearing and implementation of behavioural protocols to capture mosquito free flight at the Structure and Motion Laboratory, RVC. Pro bono, acknowledged. | Royal Veterinary College, United Kingdom |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|---|
2016/04 - 2017 | Evolution of hearing | Evolutionary Biology | University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom |
2015/10 - 2016/10 | Reproductive behaviour and sexual selection in vertebrates | Biology of Reproduction | University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
---|---|---|
2016/10/06 | Learning how mosquitoes hear could reap health rewards - Piece about my research on mosquito behaviour at the University of Brighton. | The Argus |
2014/01/14 | And that is how the desert locust lost its memory - Piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. | Science Daily/ Ciência Viva - Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica. |
2013/12/19 | How Locusts learn to be part of a swarm - Piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. | Wired |
2013/11/21 | Investigador português descobre que gafanhoto muda forma de aprender e recordar - News piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. | SIC Noticias |
2013/11/21 | Gafanhoto é capaz de mudar forma de aprender e recordar - News piece about my PhD research on locust behaviour. | TVI24 |
Distinctions
Award
2018 | Rising Stars
University of Brighton - Moulsecoomb Campus, United Kingdom
|
Other distinction
2007 | PhD grant - SFRH/BD/33278/2007
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
|