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
In the context of the 3BAtwin project, coordinated by IBEB, researchers and students from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa attended the “Summer School on Dielectric Properties Measurements“, in Galway, Ireland, from the 9th to the 13th of June. The school brought together 19 leading experts, researchers, and students Read more
In the last few months, the Department of Physics of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa and the Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB) have been welcoming high school students who came to learn about our educational offerings — namely the Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics degree — Read more
In the context of the “3BAtwin” project, coordinated by professor Raquel Conceição, the University of Galway (GALWAY) is organising a “Summer School on Dielectric Properties Measurements” for FCiências.ID/CIÊNCIAS-ULISBOA researchers from 9th to 13th June 2025. Anyone from FCiências.ID/CIÊNCIAS-ULISBOA can attend online after filling in the following registration form: Objectives of the summer Read more
IBEB’s professor and researcher Alexandre Andrade and the Master’s student Daniela Esteves published a new review paper “Identifying EEG biomarkers of sense of embodiment in virtual reality: insights from spatio-spectral features” on Frontiers in Neuroergonomics journal. The paper presents the identification of EEG biomarkers of sense of embodiment in virtual Read more