Renato Duarte
Associate Researcher
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolRenato Duarte is an associate researcher and computational neuroscientist with a decade of experience unraveling how biological neural circuits learn, adapt, and compute. He combines theoretical and data-driven approaches—dynamical systems reconstruction from multimodal timeseries, cortical microcircuit modeling, and biophysically grounded plasticity—to build digital-twin style models of brain circuits. His career spans leading European neuroscience institutes and a stint as assistant professor, reflecting both deep research and mentorship experience. Renato’s work bridges machine learning, neuroinformatics and experimental neuroscience, with uncommon expertise in heterosynaptic and sub-cellular plasticity mechanisms and neuromodulatory metaplasticity. Based in Coimbra, Portugal, he brings a rare mix of computational rigor and biological insight that informs translationally minded models of neural learning.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, Master of Science (MSc) Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology at Universidade do AlgarveDr. rer. nat. (PhD) Neuroscience, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Neuroscience at Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Degree in Computational Neuroscience and NeuroInformatics (EuroSPIN)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Neuroscience at The University of EdinburghDr. rer. nat. Computational Neuroscience, Dr. rer. nat. Computational Neuroscience at The University of FreiburgBachelor of Science Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bachelor of Science Pharmaceutical Sciences at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (8)
simulation10
cpp10
neurons10
python10
nest10
simulator10
simulate9
nest-simulator9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rcfduarte/nmsat
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Simulate and analyse complex microcircuits
Contributions:2 releases, 139 commits, 3 pushes in 10 months
pythonsimulationsimulate
rcfduarte/rcfduarte.github.io
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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