Cristina Márquez

Principal Investigator | ERA Chair Holder

cmarquez@cnc.uc.pt

Renato Duarte

Senior Researcher

renato.duarte@cnc.uc.pt

Natália Madeira

Postdoctoral Fellow

nataliamadeira@cnc.uc.pt

Flavia Ricciardi

Postdoctoral Fellow

flaviaricciardi@cnc.uc.pt

Joan Esteve-Agraz

PhD student

j.esteve@cnc.uc.pt

Bárbara Canijo

PhD student

bcsantos@cnc.uc.pt

Raquel Rodrigues

Project Manager

raquel.rodrigues@cnc.uc.pt

Tiffany Pinho

Project Manager

tiffanypinho@cnc.uc.pt

Sandra Pinhanços

Lab Manager

spinhancos@cnc.uc.pt

Visiting scientists

Ilaria Sarnicola, ERASMUS+ fellow scientist. MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Padua, Italy (systemic neural mechanisms underlying autism-related neuropsychiatric comorbidities (November 2024 – Abril 2025). 

Sandra Sanahuja Irene, visiting scientist. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain (September – December 2024).  


Past members

Turan Koç, visiting scientist. Currently: Assistant Professor at KSÜ, Kahramanmaras, Turkey (April – June 2024).

Michael Gachomba, PhD student. Currently: Postdoc at Prof. Jen Cook’s Lab – University of Birmingham, UK. Project website. 

Diana Costa, PhD student. Currently: UX Researcher at Altice Portugal/Freelance Scientific Graphic Designer. 

Kevin Caref, Postdoc. Currently: Co-founder of Lucentum Analytics

Aroa S. Maroto, Lab technician

Alicia Estirado, Lab technician

Mar Francés, Lab technician

Helena Bortolozzo-Gleich, Master student 

Adele Duseviciute, Master student