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I’m a postdoctoral scholar at the Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. I'm also the human behind Skeppuccino, a SciComm-oriented illustration studio.

Personal information

Current affiliation

  • Postdoctoral scholar (April 2021 - current)
    Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
    Team Leader: Tomoki Fukai

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (obtained March 2021)
    Department of Complex Science and Engineering
    Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • MS, Physics (obtained March 2017)
    São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • BS, Computational Physics (obtained December 2014)
    São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Past affiliation

  • Special Research Student (May 2019 - March 2021)
    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, place of research for PhD project
  • Student Trainee (April 2017 - April 2019)
    RIKEN Center for Brain Science, place of research for PhD project
  • Student Trainee (January 2015 - April 2015)
    RIKEN Center for Brain Science, internship

Scientific production

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  • Omura, Y; Carvalho, M M; Inokuchi, K; Fukai, T. A lognormal recurrent network model for burst generation during hippocampal sharp waves. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28 October 2015, 35(43): 14585-14601; doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4944-14.2015

Doctoral thesis

  • Carvalho, M M. Learning temporal features in a multicompartment model through self-supervision. Supervised by Dr. Tomoki Fukai (OIST, previously UTokyo/RIKEN), defended January 2021. Available upon request.

Master dissertation

  • Carvalho, M M. Structural, functional and dynamical properties of a lognormal network of bursting neurons. Supervised by Dr. Leonardo P. Maia (IFSC-USP), defended March 2017. doi: 10.11606/D.76.2017.tde-25052017-110738

Selected presentations

  • Carvalho, M M; Fukai, T. Self-supervision mechanism of multiple dendritic compartments for temporal feature learning. 2020. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.

Tutorials

Illustrations for science communication

Selected works

Two cats by the river

Supplementary cover illustration for ACS Catalysis featuring research by Vojkovsky et al. (2020)

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