Daniel Borges

Visiting Research Assistant

Daniel Filipe Borges is Associate Professor in the Department of Neurophysiology and Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Translational Health and Medical Biotechnology Research(TBIO), a part of the Health Research Network (RISE-Health) @ School of Health of the Polytechnic University of Porto (ESS|P.PORTO). He is currently a PhD candidate in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto with a thesis entitled 'Neurophysiology in the wild: new non-invasive methods to study neuronal networks'. His academic background is in neurophysiology and clinical neuropsychology with a specialisation in neurophysiology/electroencephalography (EEG). His main clinical and research interests are in the areas of multimodal EEG, wearables, epilepsy, cortical functional connectivity and sleep medicine. He has been a University Lecturer since 2006 (ESS|P.Porto, CESPU-ESSVA and IPC-ESTeSC) and until recently was Head of the Clinical Physiology Programme, Director of the Postgraduate Course in Electroencephalography, member of the Technical-Scientific Council and Co-Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Clinical Physiology at Coimbra Health School. He has been a lecturer in 97 teaching units/courses (50 of them as main/'in charge' lecturer), supervised 16 students and was a member of the graduation jury for the Clinical Physiology programme in 56 cases and a member of the jury for the specialist title 11 times. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 oral communications/posters at various national and international conferences and has been honoured with 3 awards. He has actively participated in scientific conferences (more than 100) and has been a member of scientific or organising committees and moderator of sessions 21 times. He has a solid 15-year experience as a clinical neurophysiology technologist in the Portuguese National Health Service (SNS) in different departments (neurology, neurosurgery, paediatrics) in the areas of multimodal electroencephalography, epilepsy surgery and sleep medicine. He is a member of the Neurotechnology Section 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, being an invited reviewer for several papers submitted to prestigious journals such as Physiology Behaviour and Clinical Neurophysiology Practice.