Science and Technology Week 2024
From 18 to 24th November, the DYNABrain team members Bárbara Canijo and Tiffany Pinho joined several activities in the context of Science and Technology Week, visiting the primary schools of Alvaiázere and Areeiro, in Coimbra.
European Researcher's Night 2024
On September 27th, 2024, the DYNABrain team joined the European Researchers’ Night, in Baixa de Coimbra, with different activities about “The social brain” for children and adults. Activities included Brain Escape Box, visualization of brain slices with a LEGO-scope, and so much more!
European Researcher's Night 2023
On September 29th, 2023, the DYNABrain team joined the European Researchers’ Night, in Coimbra, with different activities for children and adults including a Brain Escape Room, a LEGO-scope, and many more!
The Brain Maze
On February 20th, 2024, Bárbara Canijo, together with fellow CNC researcher Tiago Reis, participated in the event “Meet the Scientists” at UC-Exploratório in Coimbra where, through games and drawings, they helped children aged 3 to 5 to explore the five senses and their emotions.
The Brain: regions and functions
On May 18th, 2023, Bárbara Canijo, together with fellow CNC researcher Carolina Lebre, led an activity at Rómulo Centro de Ciência Viva – Coimbra, to explain the different brain regions and functions to primary school children by using a memory game.
International Day for Women and Girls in Science
On May 10th, 2023, Cristina Márquez celebrated the International Day for Woman and Girls in Science with activities for children and teenagers at the Instituto Espanhol de Lisboa “Giner de los Rios”.
What would you like to know about the brain?
With NeuroCurios@ project, we aim to answer children’s questions about the brain by creating an engaging, illustrated book that responds to their curiosity. As part of this initiative, we posed this open question to a group of 10-year-olds from Marquês de Marialva Middle School in Cantanhede. In collaboration with CNC’s SciComm team members Sara Amaral and Rita Félix, DYNABrain led three interactive sessions to collect the children’s questions, which will be thoughtfully adapted and transformed into illustrations for the upcoming book.
The first session was held on March 20, 2024, as part of Brain Awareness Week, where the mysteries of the brain were introduced to the children.
The second session took place at Marquês de Marialva Middle School in Cantanhede, were the children started to ask some questions to the team “How are our brains formed? Why do we feel pain, cold or hot? Does the brain change its size when we grow up?”. It led to great discussions and was the perfect launch for the next steps!
The third session happened at UC-Biotech on June 5, 20204, where the enthusiastic kids of Marquês de Marialva Middle School kept questioning and learning (almost) everything there is to know about the brain. This session was filled with hands-on activities and exciting challenges!
Cristina Márquez discussed with the journal New Scientist and with the Journal El País, in February 2025, new findings about 
Cristina Márquez was interviewed by Público.pt, in 2024, about research on brain-machine interfaces and how it should open an active dialogue in our society about neurotechnologies. 
rom a neuroscientist perspective, Cristina Márquez was interviewed by El País, in 2020, about the importance of human contact and hugs in the context of the social isolation that prevailed during the COVID-19 epidemic. 
Cristina Márquez talks with La Vanguardia, in 2017, discussing the findings of a new research article on the neurobiology of empathy.