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Simão Ferreira is a PhD Candidate in Health Data Science at FMUP. With a passion for translational science applications, his research focuses on highlighting data-driven solutions to provide adequate informed decisions. Simão received his Occupational Therapy degree and master's degree in Mental Health at the Porto School of Health. After publishing his thesis in a top 10 % journal, Social Science and Medicine alongside his interest in technology and physiological data collection he was granted a fellowship at the Porto School of Health and a place in the Health Data Science Ph.D. program at the Faculty of Medicine. During his fellowship, Simão collaborated with several researchers, being a co-first-author in two papers in the areas of Mental Health and Intelligent Systems, a co-author in a paper on Language Development, and waiting for several publications to be finished. His contributions during the fellowship allowed him to connect and collaborate with large enterprises and international partners from several companies and universities, where he provided important leadership skills and collaboration to support several projects, national and international. In his short career he published 4 papers in peer review journals and presented 2 national and 8 international communications in the topics of mental health, protocol design, data science, machine learning, Ethical data management and explainable AI. He is also part of the COST action NET4AGE-FRIENDLY CA19136.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Simão Pedro Rodrigues Ferreira

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Simão

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B11E-1BD3-5F34
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8233-2217

Email addresses

  • simao.ferreira.healthtech@portic.ipp.pt (Professional)
  • sprf@ess.ipp.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Occupational Health

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09 - 2025/07
Ongoing
 Health Data Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2018/09 - 2021/01
Concluded
 Mental Health - Masters in Occupational Therapy (Mestrado)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2014/09 - 2018/07
Concluded
 Occupational Therapy (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Collaborator Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, Portugal
2021/06/01 - Current Research Fellow TBIO Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/06 - Current Mad@Work
PORTIC/HealthTechLab/Mad@Work/BI/2021/ C
Fellowship
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Lapa, I; Silva, Tânia T.; Ferreira, Simão; Rodrigues, Matilde A.. Corresponding author: Lapa, I. "Understanding the problem of overexertion accidents on food retail sector: preliminary results". In Occupational and Environmental Safety VI. Porto, Portugal: SPOSHO, 2024.
    Submitted
  2. Silva, Inês (co first authorship); Ferreira, Simão; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno; Rodrigues, Matilde A.. "Uncovering the Dynamics of Stress in Office Workers: An Experience Sampling Approach". In Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health V. Springer, 2023.
    Accepted
Conference abstract
  1. Silva, Tânia T.; Lapa, I; Ferreira, Simão; Rodrigues, Matilde A.. "Development of a decision-making tool to help classify work-related accidents due to overexertion: Preliminary results". Paper presented in 12 th International conference Working on Safety (WOS) 2024, Dresden, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Ferreira, Simão; Correia, Hugo; Rodrigues, Fátima; Rodrigues, Matilde A.; Rocha, Nuno Barbosa. "An unobtrusive multimodal stress detection model & Recommender System". Paper presented in 6th International conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions, Aveiro, 2023.
    Published
  3. Simão Ferreira; Matiilde Rodrigues; Henrique Figueiredo; Fátima Rodrigues; Fernando Moreira; Luis Costa; Nuno Rocha. "Benefits, concerns, and perceptions of knowledge workers regarding a video Stress Detection software". 2022.
    Published • 10.1016/j.shaw.2021.12.1717
  4. Simão Ferreira; Matilde Rodrigues; Carlos Campos; Nuno Rocha. "An unobtrusive stress detection software: Protocol design to assess the reliability of video plethysmography". 2022.
    Published • 10.1016/j.shaw.2021.12.1718
Conference paper
  1. Elena Vildjiounaite; Johanna Kallio; Julia Kantorovitch; Atte Kinnula; Rodrigues, Matilde; Ferreira, Simão; Rocha, Nuno Barbosa. "Challenges of learning human digital twin: case study of mental wellbeing". Paper presented in Petra 2023 Human Digital Twins in Hybrid Intelligence Systems (HD-THIS), 2023.
    Published
  2. Simão Ferreira; Matilde Rodrigues; Nuno Rocha. "Validation of a Video-based System to Determine Heart Rate for Stress Monitoring". 2022.
    Published • 10.54941/ahfe1002621
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira, Simão; Rodrigues, Matilde A.; Barbosa-Rocha, Nuno. "Next-Gen Stress Management: AI’s Revolutionary role in Workplace Occupational Health". Paper presented in 34th International Congress on Occupational Health - Marrakesh, 2024, 2024.
  2. Marinheiro, Catarina; Ferreira, Simão. Corresponding author: Marinheiro, Catarina. "Perceptions on the nurse operation workload model: a focus group protocol". Paper presented in 34th International Congress on Occupational Health - Marrakesh, 2024.
  3. Ferreira, Simão; Rodrigues, Matilde A.; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. "Automated real time stress detection at the workplace using video monitoring". Paper presented in 13th international conference on applied human factors and ergonomics (ahfe 2022), 2022.
  4. Ferreira, Simão; Matiilde Rodrigues; Henrique Figueiredo; Fátima Rodrigues; Fernando Moreira; Luis Costa; Nuno Rocha. "Benefits, concerns, and perceptions of knowledge workers regarding a video Stress Detection software". Paper presented in ICOH 2022, 2022.
  5. Ferreira, Simão; Matilde Rodrigues (0000-0001-6175-6934); Campos, Carlos; Nuno Barbosa-Rocha. "An unobtrusive stress detection software: Protocol design to assess the reliability of video plethysmography". Paper presented in ICOH 2022, 2022.
  6. Ferreira, Simão; Campos, Carlos; Marinho, Beatriz; Rocha, Susana. "The association between beliefs in COVID 19 conspiracy theories, psychotic like experiences and confinement related factors"". Paper presented in ESCAN 2021 - European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Meeting, 2021, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Filipa Ferreira, D.; Ferreira, Simão; Mateus, Catarina; Barbosa-Rocha, Nuno; Coelho, Luís; Rodrigues, Matilde A.. "Advancing the understanding of pupil size variation in occupational safety and health: A systematic review and evaluation of open-source methodologies". Safety Science 175 (2024): 106490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106490.
    10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106490
  2. Rocha, Susana; Fernández, Xosé Manuel; Castro, Yolanda Rodríguez; Ferreira, Simão; Teixeira, Liliana; Campos, Carlos; Rocha, Nuno Barbosa. "Exploring the associations between early maladaptive schemas and impulsive and compulsive buying tendencies". Frontiers in Psychiatry 14 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1157710.
    10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1157710
  3. Monteiro, Rita; Ferreira, Simão; Fernandes, Sandra; Nuno Barbosa-Rocha. "Does digital media use contribute to decreased expressive language skills of preschool aged children? An exploratory study in Portuguese children". Somatosensory & Motor Research (ISMR) (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/08990220.2023.2191702.
    Published
  4. Ines Lapa (co first authorship); Ferreira, Simão; Catarina Mateus (0000-0003-4472-5049); Nuno Rocha (0000-0002-3139-2786); Matilde Rodrigues (0000-0001-6175-6934). Corresponding author: Matilde Rodrigues (0000-0001-6175-6934). "Real-Time Blink Detection as an Indicator of Computer Vision Syndrome in Real-Life Settings: An Exploratory Study". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/4569.
    Published
  5. Alexandra Silva (co first authorship); Ferreira, Simão; Élia Silva Pinto; Susana Rocha; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. Corresponding author: Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. "The Relationship between Childhood Abuse and Adult Attachment Styles: The Mediator Role of Sensory Over-Responsivity". Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2023.2186298.
    Published
  6. Ferreira, Simão; Campos, Carlos; Marinho, Beatriz; Rocha, Susana; Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. "What drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors". Social Science & Medicine 292 (2022): 114611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114611.
    Published • 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114611
  7. Rocha, Nuno; Rodrigues, Matilde; Ferreira, Simão. "Mad@ work mental health and productivity boosting in the workplace". (2022): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/23934.
Preprint
  1. Ferreira, Simão Pedro Rodrigues; Campos, Carlos; Marinho, Beatriz Monteiro; Rocha, Susana; Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo; Rocha, Nuno Barbosa. "What drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors". 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2mjye.
    10.31234/osf.io/2mjye

Other

Dataset
  1. Ferreira, Simão; Campos, Carlos; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Psychotic-Like Experiences: Community-Sample. https://osf.io/yk96g.
  2. Monteiro, Rita; Ferreira, Simão; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. Screen time exposure and influence in language. https://osf.io/g92qs.
  3. Ferreira, Simão; Silva , Alexandra. Childhood abuse and adult attachment styles: Over responsivity role. https://osf.io/amkn8/.
Other output
  1. The role of pupil diameter in Occupational Health and Safety: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Open-Source Data Acquisition Methodologies. Protocol Register. 2023. Ferreira, Daniela; Ferreira, Simão; Rodrigues, Matilde A.. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=392539.
  2. COVID - 19 Conspiracy Theories Beliefs Questionnaire. 2021. Ferreira, Simão; Campos, Carlos; Barbosa Rocha, Nuno. https://osf.io/xgtm5.
  3. Statistical Programs Finished. Advanced Topics in Intelligent Data Analysis Health Informatics Machine Learning, and Knowledge Extraction from Data, Bayesian Statistical Modeling Statistical Modeling Computational Statistics. 2021. Ferreira, Simão.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07/20 Uncovering the Dynamics of Stress in Office Workers: An Experience Sampling approach SHO 23 International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene
(Porto, Portugal)
2023/05/26 An unobtrusive multimodal stress detection model & Recommender System 6th International conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/07/26 What are the boundaries of stress monitoring technology acceptability? 13th international conference on applied human factors and ergonomics (ahfe 2022)
AHFE (New York, United States)
2022/07/26 Validation of a video-based system to determine heart rate for stress monitoring 13th international conference on applied human factors and ergonomics (ahfe 2022)
AHFE (New York, United States)
2022/03/05  “What drives beliefs in Covid-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement related facts” - Research experience 2º Seminário de experiências de investigação
Escola Superior de Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
2021/04/28 Psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors: contribution to COVID-19 conspiracy theories Internacional Congress "One Health"
Don State Technical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
2021/03/21 Research Experience in Porto's School of Health 1º Seminário de experiências de investigação
Escola Superior de Saúde do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/07/01 - 2033/11/20 Associação entre a exposição a poluentes do ar e a cognição:resultados da coorte Geração XXI
Co-supervisor
 Terapia Ocupacional (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2033/11/17 Advancing the Understanding of Pupil Size Variation in Occupational Safety and Health: A Systematic Review and Evaluation of Open-Source Methodologies
Co-supervisor
 Segurança e higiene no trabalho (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2033/04/03 Real-Time Blink Detection as an Indicator of Computer Vision Syndrome in Real-Life Settings: An Exploratory Study
Co-supervisor
 Saúde Ambiental (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2022/10/01 - 2023/07/18 Medidas para a redução do stress ocupacional: uma revisão sistemática da literatura
Co-supervisor
 Saúde Ambiental (Degree) (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/12/28 - Current Safety Science (09257535) Elsevier

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/02 - Current Invited Assistant Professor Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2023/03/24 - 2033/06/06 Basic Lab Skills - Center for Translational Health and Medical Biotechnology Research (Outros) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2024/04/02 - 2024/04/16 PhD Scholarship Project Training (Outros) Center for Translational Health and Medical Biotechnology Research - RISE-Health Network, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Formação Profissional - Instituto de Formação e Qualificação Profissional (Outros)
Distinctions

Award

2022 PAPRE Award for Scientific Publishing in top 10% journals
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal