On 5 October, Patrícia Figueiredo, a professor at Técnico and a researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa), was officially inaugurated as the President of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB). Previously, she had been vice-president of the ESMRMB.
Over the last decade, Patrícia Figueiredo has played an active role at the ESMRMB. She served on the Education Committee from 2016 to 2019 and chaired the 38th Annual Meeting in 2021 before being elected to the presidential track in 2022.
Patrícia Figueiredo graduated in Physics Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (1996) and obtained a PhD degree in Neuroimaging from the University of Oxford (2003). She returned to Técnico in 2007 as a lecturer in the Department of Physics and was a founding member of the Department of Bioengineering in 2011.
Patrícia Figueiredo’s research focuses on magnetic resonance imaging, which she combines with encephalography techniques, in order to understand more about brain function in both healthy individuals and patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric pathologies.
Founded in 1984, the ESMRMB is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing education and research in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy for medicine and biology. With nearly 800 members, ESMRMB brings together a multidisciplinary community of physicists, engineers, biomedical scientists, radiologists, clinicians, and radiographers.
In December 2023, Patrícia Figueiredo gave the fourth Técnico Mastertalk, highlighting the Master’s Programmes offered by the Department of Bioengineering. In 2022, she was one of the Técnico researchers who joined the Consortium in Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
*This text was written in collaboration with the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa).
