Antonio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho

Antonio C. Roque (name used in scientific publications) was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1963. He holds a Bachelor's (1985) and a Master's degree (1987) in Physics from UNICAMP, and a Ph.D. (1992) in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is an Associate Professor (MS-5) in the Department of Physics at the School of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP), where he founded and coordinates the Neural Systems Laboratory (SisNe). His research focuses on computational neuroscience, particularly on biologically plausible models of neurons, astrocytes, and their interactive networks. He has also worked on modeling animal behavior, complex networks, and medical decision-support systems. He is actively involved in training new researchers, supervising undergraduate research projects, masters and doctoral theses, and postdoctoral work in the graduate programs of Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology and Applied Computing at USP. He is the founder and director of the Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON), an international school that, for over two decades, has provided hands-on training in computational neuroscience to graduate students and researchers. He coordinates and participates in several research projects funded by national and international agencies and is currently a principal investigator and Coordinator of Innovation and Technology Transfer at the FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (CEPID NeuroMat). He has served on the boards of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences (OCNS) and the Brazilian Society for Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC), and is currently an active member of the Society for Neuroscience (USA), OCNS, SBNeC, and the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering (SBEB). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)