Ms Rafaella Coelho has just been granted a PhD scholarship in the 2025 Call for PhD Studentships – Regular Line of Application from FCT, with project “Study of dielectric properties of biological tissue and tissue mimicking materials for optimal development of electromagnetic-based medical devices”, under the supervision of Dr Raquel Read more…
IBEB has been granted 3 projects by FCT from 2 calls. Dr Brígida Ferreira and Dr Diana Prata were successful at the Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains 2024 call with projects: “RObust Biological trEatment planning in Radiation TherApy for pancreatic cancer” (ROBERTA) (in the Bioengineering and Biotechnology Panel) and Read more…
Professors and PhD students from IBEB participated in the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), which took place from July 14–17 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Sofia Fernandes contributed to the organisation of a symposium dedicated the most up-to-date research on magnetic stimulation Read more…
Professor and integrated member of IBEB João M. P. Coelho and master’s students Diogo Novas and Alessandro Fortes published their latest work in the field of photothermal cancer therapy system development. The article “Proof of Concept of an Integrated Laser Irradiation and Thermal/Visible Imaging System for Optimized Photothermal Therapy in Read more…
Between July 7 to 11, IBEB hosted Dr Declan O’Loughlin as part of an ERASMUS+ mobility programme. Dr O’Loughlin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and a Principal Investigator at the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Throughout the week, Dr Read more…
The recently graduated PhD Gonçalo Cosme, together with IBEB’s integrated members Diana Prata, Carlotta Cogoni, and Maciej Kosilo, have published their latest work, “Intranasal oxytocin increases cooperation of heterosexual men with women”, in Psychoneuroendocrinology. In this study, the researchers found that intranasal oxytocin increased cooperation towards women in the Prisoner’s Read more…
Researcher and full member of IBEB, Diana Prata, published her latest work “Psychological and hormonal effects of socio-emotional learning in adolescents: a randomized controlled trial“ in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. This study found evidence that endogenous oxytocin is increased during group-bonding tasks; and that its increase after a socio-emotional Read more…
IBEB’s professor and researcher Hugo Alexandre Ferreira and the PhD student Pedro Delgado published their most recent work “Electroencephalographic and cognitive task analysis of working memory and attention in athletes: A systematic review” in Psychology of Sport & Exercise.
The coordinator and full member of IBEB Raquel Conceição was awarded an Honourable Mention at the Scientific Awards by ULisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2025 in the scientific area of Biomedical Sciences. Member of IBEB Catarina Reis was also awarded an Honourable Mention at the same event in the scientific area Read more…
Principal Investigator Diana Prata and PhD student Vasco Diogo were invited to present at a meeting focused on the psychophysiology of psychopathy, and divulged their novel findings on oxytocin’s role in brain function and anti-social behaviour. CBMIPA 2025 took place at the Hotel Marina Lario, in Málaga, Spain, from May Read more…