Daniel Filipe Borges, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurophysiology at the School of Health, Polytechnic University of Porto (ESS | P.PORTO), and an Integrated Researcher in the Pre-Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Group of RISE-Health | TBIO. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), where he completed the thesis “Neurophysiology in the Wild: New Non-Invasive Methods to Study Neuronal Networks.” He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Neuropsychology and a degree with Specialist Title in Neurophysiology.
He has been a university lecturer since 2006, teaching at ESS | P.PORTO, CESPU-ESSVA, and Coimbra Health School (IPC-ESTeSC). Before rejoining ESS in 2023 to take up a full-time academic position, he served at IPC-ESTeSC, where he coordinated the bachelor’s degree in Clinical Physiology and its Scientific-Pedagogical Unit, was part of the Department of Clinical Physiology, Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy, coordinated the postgraduate course in Electroencephalography, co-coordinated the master’s degree in Clinical Physiology, and was a member of the Technical-Scientific Council. Throughout his academic career, he has taught more than 120 curricular units in undergraduate, postgraduate, and advanced training programmes, with current teaching activity focusing on functional neuroanatomy, neurological disorders – with particular emphasis on epilepsy – electroencephalography (EEG), and sleep medicine.
Clinically, he has sixteen years of professional experience in the Portuguese National Health Service (SNS) as a Clinical Neurophysiology Technologist, attaining the Specialist degree before interrupting his hospital practice. He worked in Neurology, Neuropaediatrics, and Neurosurgery departments in hospitals in Lisbon and Porto, and supervised approximately 130 final-year students from Neurophysiology and Clinical Physiology degrees during their clinical placements (hospital-based internships).
He has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific communications at national and international meetings and has received three scientific awards. He has participated in over 100 conferences, including roles on scientific and organising committees and as a session moderator. He maintains an active research programme in multimodal and wearable EEG, epilepsy, cortical network physiology, and sleep medicine.
He is an invited reviewer for several prestigious international indexed journals across Q1, Q2, and Q3, and participates actively in international scientific networks. He is a member of the Neurotechnology Section (Education & Knowledge Task Force) of the International League Against Epilepsy, the Portuguese Society of Neurology, the Portuguese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine, and the Portuguese League Against Epilepsy.