Raquel Sebastião

Adjunct Professor

Member information

Status

Integrated Researcher

Research Group

Biomedical Informatics and Technologies

Affiliation

Polytechnic Institute of Viseu

Ciência ID

C51A-5960-CE92

Scopus

23467762800

ORCID ID

0000-0001-5717-1415

Description

Raquel Sebastião holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics, with a background in Applied Mathematics and Computational Methods, from the University of Porto. She is an adjunct professor at the School of Technology and Management of Viseu, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, and a researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University of Aveiro, with over 60 publications, with a total of more than 1000 citations, reaching an h-index of 14 (Scopus: Oct 2026). Her research in Informatics/Computer Science, particularly in the fields of Physiological Computing and Affective Computing, focuses on healthcare scenarios, with a particular emphasis on pain assessment. Regarding the understanding of pain mechanisms and objective, quantifiable measures to support self-care and promote patients’ health and well-being, she was awarded an assistant researcher contract by the FCT, project “Multimodal physiological indicators of pain” (DOI: 10.54499/CEECIND/03986/2018/CP1559/CT0028), to study the physiological responses of patients in postoperative pain, and with the project “Emotional Modulation in Pain Assessment” (2022.05005.PTDC), in which she was the principal investigator. She has participated in several national and international R&D projects, is a member of the program committee of several conferences, serves as a reviewer of several journals, and has been enrolled in the organization of scientific events. She has supervised several students (undergraduate, Masters, and PhDs), has been jury for academic degrees and several undergraduate courses. Keywords: data mining, decision support, artificial Intelligence, machine learning, adaptive systems, computer-related health issues, and patient-centred medicine.

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