Postdoc Researcher

PhD in Medical Physiology, Vera Geraldes is an Assistant Professor of Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and a researcher in the Cardiovascular Autonomic Function group. Her research focuses on autonomic cardiovascular control, cardio-oncology, central cardiorespiratory interactions,  lead toxicity and biological signal processing, with several publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
Her scientific work has been recognized with awards from the Federation of European Physiological Societies and the Portuguese Society of Hypertension. She is currently involved in a Social Prescription project, exploring the application of digital twins in health.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1275-3459
E-mail: vgeraldes@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Postdoc Researcher

Michele dos Santos Gomes da Rosa graduated in physiotherapy in 2003, having specialised in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy. She subsequently completed a Master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2008 (PUCRS), with research developed in the area of Aerospace Biomedical Engineering, followed by a doctorate in Health Sciences in 2014, with research linked to Clinical Medicine (PUCRS). She is a member of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) and the Riograndense Society of Bioethics.
Innovation and technology transfer act as the motivating factors for her studies in academic research. Michele focuses on human physiology evaluations in ground-based simulations of the space environment and has participated, for example, in the development of research related to cardiorespiratory resuscitation in microgravity, and to human gait in hypogravity environments, such as found on the Moon and Mars.
In addition to her academic-scientific activities in space physiology, Michele stands out for her organisation and implementation of telehealth projects, involving actions in education, research, and medical care in remote and deprived areas of Brazil. She has participated in telehealth missions for many years, guiding the collection of data, such as medical histories, performing ECGs and obtaining photographic images of skin lesions, with their subsequent transmission for second opinion by a remote expert.
These activities encompass the areas of telecardiology, teleodontology, teledermatology, telesurgery and telegerontology.
Michele also has expertise in the development and implementation of validation processes for medical protocols, and in the evaluation of electro-medical technologies, as well as in the study of the usability of biomedical equipment and devices, especially in embedded telemetry systems.
Since 2015, Michele has acted as Administrative Coordinator of the Microgravity Research Centre (MicroG), PUCRS, attending various national and international scientific events, congresses and symposia for meetings and presenting research papers.
Michele has several publications in scientific journals focused on space science, aviation medicine, aerospace physiology, telehealth and eHealth.

ORCID: 0000-0003-0680-1856
E-mail: michelerosa@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Researcher

MD, graduated from Lisbon University, Portugal (2007) and currently Pediatric Cardiologist at the St Marta Hospital (Lisbon) and research fellow at Cardiovascular Autonomic Lab of Faculty of Medicine CAF/CCUL (Lisbon) where he is finishing is PhD thesis. Dr. Laranjo has a particular interest in autonomic cardiovascular control and central cardiorespiratory interaction. Working at CAF, he developed new non-invasive mathematic methods of autonomic function assessment. In 2012, he completed a Pediatric Clinical Cardiac – Electrophysiology Fellowship at Leiden University Medical Center (supervision Prof. Dr. Nico Blom) He currently works on the autonomic influences on cardiac arrythmias as well as on ANS and electrophysiological imbalanced on cardiomyopathies. Member of the EFAS Education Committee, Dr. Laranjo has been involved in several editions of the European School of Autonomic Medicine as well as in doctoral programs teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon. At the European level, he is, since 2012, the Portuguese liaison-member for the European Association of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).

ORCID: 0000-0003-2169-4024
E-mail: sergiolaranjo@gmail.com