Renato Duarte rcfduarte

Renato Duarte

Computational Neuroscience & NeuroAI
Principal Investigator · CNNC Lab · University of Coimbra

I study how the brain computes the mind — building mechanistic models of cortical circuits that bridge molecular biophysics, dynamical systems theory, and cognition. I lead the Computational Neuroscience & Neural Computation group at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra.

cortical microcircuits heterosynaptic plasticity dendritic computation sequential rule learning dynamical systems NeuroAI

FNA _{Framework for benchmarking neural circuits across abstraction levels — from rate networks to biophysically detailed spiking models}	NMSAT _{Simulation and analysis toolkit for reproducible spiking neural microcircuit experiments at scale}
MEA-Flow _{Multi-electrode array data analysis — population dynamics, manifold learning, and latent state-space methods}	CNNC-Lab _{Lab organization — teaching materials, research code, and open-source tools for computational neuroscience}

2025 — Nonlinear dendritic integration supports Up-Down states in single neurons · J. Neuroscience
2025 — SymSeqBench: unified framework for rule-based symbolic sequences · arXiv
2024 — Layered microcircuit model of somatosensory cortex · Cerebral Cortex
2023 — Signal denoising through topographic modularity · eLife

_{Full list on Google Scholar · More about me at rcfduarte.github.io}