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Researcher | Peer Reviewer | Data Scientist & Statistician

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing, Translation
Research User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights
Product Development Device Fabrication
Work Experience

Pre-submission Scientific Peer Reviewer & Data Annotator

Freelancer

January 2025 - Present

Data Science Researcher

Universidade de Aveiro

December 2021 - February 2024

Project Manager

Associação Portuguesa de Educação Ambiental

January 2020 - June 2021

Research Project Lead / Physics Professor

Instituto Federal do Paraná

February 2016 - July 2019

Senior Researcher / Data Scientist

CNPq

January 2014 - October 2015

Researcher/ Data scientist

Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto

September 2009 - December 2013

Education

PhD

University of Porto / Université Joseph Fourier

September 2009 - December 2013

MSc

University of Aveiro

September 2007 - September 2008

BSc

Universidade de Aveiro

September 2003 - August 2007

Certifications
  • Clinical trials Post Graduation

    Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon

    January 2024 - Present

  • MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science

    MIT

    January 2022 - Present

  • Data Science Professional Certificate

    Data Science Infinity

    January 2022 - Present

Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vasco Neves, Luciana Ribeiro, Ana Cristina Ferreira Neta (2026). A percepção de risco dos moradores de Foz do Iguaçu: Desafios de Educação Ambiental não formal para resiliência climática . International Journal of Environmental Resilience Research and Science.
Antoniadis-Karnavas, A., Sousa, S.G., Delgado-Mena, E., Santos, N.C., Teixeira, G.D.C., Neves, V.(2020). ODUSSEAS: a machine learning tool to derive effective temperature and metallicity for M dwarf stars . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 636.
Capistrano, A.J.S., Seidel, P.T.Z., Neves, V.(2019). Exoplanets apsidal precession and analysis on their eccentricities . Astrophysics and Space Science. 364. (3).
Hojjatpanah, S., Figueira, P., Santos, N.C., Adibekyan, V., Sousa, S.G., Delgado-Mena, E., Alibert, Y., Cristiani, S., González Hernández, J.I., Lanza, A.F., et al.(2019). Catalog for the ESPRESSO blind radial velocity exoplanet survey . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 629.
Fouqué, P., Moutou, C., Malo, L., Martioli, E., Lim, O., Rajpurohit, A., Artigau, E., Delfosse, X., Donati, J.-F., Forveille, T., et al.(2018). SPIRou Input Catalogue: Global properties of 440 M dwarfs observed with ESPaDOnS at CFHT . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 475. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1960-1986.
Andreasen, D.T., Sousa, S.G., Delgado Mena, E., Santos, N.C., Tsantaki, M., Rojas-Ayala, B., Neves, V.(2016). Near-infrared spectroscopy of the Sun and HD20010: Compiling a new line list in the near-infrared . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 585.
Berta-Thompson, Z.K., Irwin, J., Charbonneau, D., Newton, E.R., Dittmann, J.A., Astudillo-Defru, N., Bonfils, X., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., Stark, A.A., et al.(2015). A rocky planet transiting a nearby low-mass star . Nature. 527. (7577). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 204-207.
Sousa, S.G., Santos, N.C., Mortier, A., Tsantaki, M., Adibekyan, V., Delgado Mena, E., Israelian, G., Rojas-Ayala, B., Neves, V.(2015). Homogeneous spectroscopic parameters for bright planet host stars from the northern hemisphere: The impact on stellar and planetary mass . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 576.
Leão, I.C., Pasquini, L., Ferreira Lopes, C.E., Neves, V., Valcarce, A.A.R., De Oliveira, L.L.A., Freire Da Silva, D., De Freitas, D.B., Canto Martins, B.L., Janot-Pacheco, E., et al.(2015). Rotation period distribution of CoRoT∗ and Kepler Sun-like stars . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 582.
Astudillo-Defru, N., Bonfils, X., Delfosse, X., Ségransan, D., Forveille, T., Bouchy, F., Gillon, M., Lovis, C., Mayor, M., Neves, V., et al.(2015). The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets: XXXVI. Planetary systems and stellar activity of the M dwarfs GJ 3293, GJ 3341, and GJ 3543 . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 575.
Ferreira Lopes, C.E., Neves, V., Leao, I.C., De Freitas, D.B., Canto Martins, B.L., Da Costa, A.D., Paz-Chinchon, F., Das Chagas, M.L., Baglin, A., Janot-Pacheco, E., et al.(2015). The variability behaviour of CoRoT M-giant stars . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 583.
Almenara, J.M., Astudillo-Defru, N., Bonfils, X., Forveille, T., Santerne, A., Albrecht, S., Barros, S.C.C., Bouchy, F., Delfosse, X., Demangeon, O., et al.(2015). A HARPS view on K2-3 . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 581.
Neves, V., Bonfils, X., Santos, N.C., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Allard, F., Udry, S.(2014). Metallicity of M dwarfs IV. A high-precision [Fe/H] and T<inf>eff</inf> technique from high-resolution optical spectra for M dwarfs . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 568.
Ehrenreich, D., Bonfils, X., Lovis, C., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Mayor, M., Neves, V., Santos, N.C., Udry, S., S&#233;gransan, D.(2014). Near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm-Uranus GJ 3470b with the Wide Field Camera-3 on the Hubble Space Telescope . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 570.
Lanotte, A.A., Gillon, M., Demory, B.-O., Fortney, J.J., Astudillo, N., Bonfils, X., Magain, P., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Lovis, C., et al.(2014). A global analysis of Spitzer and new HARPS data confirms the loneliness and metal-richness of GJ 436 b . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 572.
Santos, N.C., Sousa, S.G., Mortier, A., Neves, V., Adibekyan, V., Tsantaki, M., Delgado Mena, E., Bonfils, X., Israelian, G., Mayor, M., et al.(2013). SWEET-Cat: A catalogue of parameters for Stars with ExoplanETs: I. New atmospheric parameters and masses for 48 stars with planets . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 556.
Demory, B.-O., Torres, G., Neves, V., Rogers, L., Gillon, M., Horch, E., Sullivan, P., Bonfils, X., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., et al.(2013). Spitzer observations of GJ 3470 b: A very low-density neptune-size planet orbiting a metal-rich M dwarf . Astrophysical Journal. 768. (2).
Delfosse, X., Bonfils, X., Forveille, T., Udry, S., Mayor, M., Bouchy, F., Gillon, M., Lovis, C., Neves, V., Pepe, F., et al.(2013). The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets: XXXIII. Super-Earths around the M-dwarf neighbors Gl 433 and Gl 667C . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 553.
Bonfils, X., Lo Curto, G., Correia, A.C.M., Laskar, J., Udry, S., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Astudillo-Defru, N., Benz, W., Bouchy, F., et al.(2013). The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets: XXXIV. A planetary system around the nearby M dwarf GJ 163, with a super-Earth possibly in the habitable zone . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 556.
Neves, V., Bonfils, X., Santos, N.C., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Allard, F., Udry, S.(2013). Metallicity of M dwarfs: III. Planet-metallicity and planet-stellar mass correlations of the HARPS GTO M dwarf sample . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 551.
Bonfils, X., Gillon, M., Udry, S., Armstrong, D., Bouchy, F., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Fumel, A., Jehin, E., Lendl, M., et al.(2012). A hot Uranus transiting the nearby M dwarf GJ 3470: Detected with H ARPS velocimetry. Captured in transit with T RAPPIST photometry . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 546.
Neves, V., Bonfils, X., Santos, N.C., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Allard, F., Nat&#225;rio, C., Fernandes, C.S., Udry, S.(2012). Metallicity of M dwarfs: II. A comparative study of photometric metallicity scales . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 538.
Bonfils, X., Gillon, M., Forveille, T., Delfosse, X., Deming, D., Demory, B.-O., Lovis, C., Mayor, M., Neves, V., Perrier, C., et al.(2011). A short-period super-Earth orbiting the M2.5 dwarf GJ: Detection with HARPS velocimetry and transit search with Spitzer photometry . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 528.
Hern&#225;ndez, J.I.G., Israelian, G., Santos, N.C., Sousa, S., Delgado-Mena, E., Neves, V., Udry, S.(2010). Searching for the signatures of terrestrial planets in solar analogs . Astrophysical Journal. 720. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1592-1602.
Neves, V., Santos, N.C., Sousa, S.G., Correia, A.C.M., Israelian, G.(2009). Chemical abundances of 451 stars from the HARPS GTO planet search program . Astronomy and Astrophysics. 497. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 563-581.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
THE MISSING HERITABILITY OF COMPLEX TRAITS/DISEASES: A REVIEW @inproceedings { author = {Neves, Vasco and Sonya Neto and Marçalo, Rui and Manuel A. S. Santos and Moura, Gabriela}, title = {THE MISSING HERITABILITY OF COMPLEX TRAITS/DISEASES: A REVIEW}, year = {2023}, month = {mar}, keywords = {Bioinformática; Genética humana; PRS} }. 26th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics.
A genomic approach to explore the mechanisms of cognitive aging @inproceedings { author = {Sonya Neto and Reis, Andreia and Pinheiro, Miguel and Santos, N. and Rodrigues, Ana J. and Neves, Vasco and Sousa, Nuno and Manuel Santos and Moura, Gabriela}, title = {A genomic approach to explore the mechanisms of cognitive aging}, pages = {114}, year = {2023}, keywords = {Bioinformática; Genética; Ciências Médicas; Cognitive Aging} }. III International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics.
GWAS and PRS studies of human diseases: perspectives and limitations @inproceedings { author = {Neves, Vasco and Sonya Neto and Marçalo, Rui and Thaís Córdova and Manuel A. S. Santos and Moura, Gabriela}, title = {GWAS and PRS studies of human diseases: perspectives and limitations}, address = {Évora}, pages = {129}, year = {2023}, keywords = {Bioinformática; Genética; Ciências Médicas; PRS} }. III International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics.
Estudo da parte elétrica, eletrônica e de controlo de um extrusor de filamento para impressora 3D @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Moura, M. T. and Chiapetti, R. A.}, title = {Estudo da parte elétrica, eletrônica e de controlo de um extrusor de filamento para impressora 3D}, address = {Londrina}, pages = {211--211}, year = {2019}, month = {jan}, keywords = {Open Source Hardware} }. VII SEPIN.
Um extrusor de filamento de plástico em fonte aberta: Estudos de montagem mecânica @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Chiapetti, R. A. and Moura, M. T.}, title = {Um extrusor de filamento de plástico em fonte aberta: Estudos de montagem mecânica}, address = {Londrina}, pages = {473--473}, year = {2019}, month = {jan}, keywords = {Open Source Hardware} }. VII SEPIN.
Um extrusor de filamento de plástico em fonte aberta @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Moura, M. T. and Chiapetti, R. A.}, title = {Um extrusor de filamento de plástico em fonte aberta}, address = {Foz do Iguaçu}, pages = {16--16}, year = {2018}, keywords = {Open Source Hardware} }. MOSTRA DE INOVAÇÃO, PESQUISA, ENSINO, EXTENSÃO E CULTURA IFPR - CAMPUS FOZ DO IGUAÇU.
Automação da Cúpula do Observatório do Polo Astronômico Casimiro Montenegro Filho @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Silva, R. M. and Baez, L. and Machado, D. and Marques, R. C. and Vilaça, J.}, title = {Automação da Cúpula do Observatório do Polo Astronômico Casimiro Montenegro Filho}, address = {Pinhais, PR}, pages = {82--82}, year = {2017}, keywords = {Open Source Hardware} }. VI SEPIN.
Máquinas Replicantes I. Uma Impressora 3D Autoreplicante @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Baez, L. and Cantú, E. and Benacchio, A.}, title = {Máquinas Replicantes I. Uma Impressora 3D Autoreplicante}, address = {Pinhais, PR}, pages = {250--250}, year = {2017}, keywords = {Open Source Hardware} }. VI SEPIN.
CONFERENCE PAPER
Projeto MAPeAR @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Pinto, J. R. and Silva, D. R. and Neta, A. C. F. and Almeida, V. and Munera, L. G.}, title = {Projeto MAPeAR}, year = {2020}, month = {nov}, booktitle = {Atas do IV Congresso Internacional Educação, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento}, pages = {305--321}, publisher = {OIKOS – Associação de Defesa do Ambiente e do Património da Região de Leiria}, address = {Leiria} }. IV CIEAD.
Determinação de parâmetros estelares para estrelas FGK @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Moura, M. T.}, title = {Determinação de parâmetros estelares para estrelas FGK}, year = {2018}, month = {jul}, pages = {84--85}, publisher = {SAB}, keywords = {Astronomia; Stars: fundamental parameters} }. XLII Reunião Anual da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira.
A new high-precision [Fe/H] calibration for M dwarfs in the visible: a tool to explore the star-planet connection @inproceedings { author = {Neves, V. and Bonfils, X. and Santos, N. C. and Delfosse, X. and Forveille, T. and Allard, F. and Udry, S.}, title = {A new high-precision [Fe/H] calibration for M dwarfs in the visible: a tool to explore the star-planet connection}, year = {2013}, month = {sep}, pages = {746--747}, publisher = {Copernicus} }. European Planetary Science Congress 2013.
Bonfils, X., Bouchy, F., Delfosse, X., Forveille, T., Gillon, M., Lovis, C., Mayor, M., Neves, V., Pepe, F., Perrier, C., et al.(2013). Prized results from HARPS: Low-mass/habitable/transiting planets orbiting M dwarfs . EPJ Web of Conferences. 47.
Chemical Abundances of Volatiles and Refractories in Solar Analogs with and without Planets: No Relation with Terrestial Planets @inproceedings { author = {González Hernández, J. I. and Israelian, G. and Santos, N. C. and Sousa, S. and Delgado-Mena, E. and Neves, V. and Udry, S.}, title = {Chemical Abundances of Volatiles and Refractories in Solar Analogs with and without Planets: No Relation with Terrestial Planets}, year = {2010}, month = {sep}, pages = {879} }. 16th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun.
Gonz&#225;lez Hern&#225;ndez, J.I., Israelian, G., Santos, N.C., Sousa, S., Delgado-Mena, E., Neves, V., Udry, S.(2010). Detailed chemical abundances of solar analogs with and without planets: No terrestial planet connection . Proceedings of the 9th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society - Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, SEA 2010. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 467-472.
CONFERENCE POSTER
Oficinas de empreendedorismo sócio-ambiental open source: uma proposta pedagógica para alunos do terceiro ciclo @misc { author = {Neves, V.}, title = {Oficinas de empreendedorismo sócio-ambiental open source: uma proposta pedagógica para alunos do terceiro ciclo}, year = {2020}, month = {mar} }. XXVI Jornadas Pedagógicas de Educação Ambiental.
Proposta de Ensino Potencialmente Significativo sobre Efeito Doppler a partir de uma análise primária de linhas espectrais @misc { author = {Moura, M. T. and Neves, V. and Leboeuf, H. A.}, title = {Proposta de Ensino Potencialmente Significativo sobre Efeito Doppler a partir de uma análise primária de linhas espectrais}, year = {2018}, month = {dec}, keywords = {Física} }. IV Encontro Regional de Ensino de Física.
A new visual spectroscopic metallicity scale for M dwarfs: the ’Super-Index’ approach @misc { author = {Neves, V. and Bonfils, X. and Santos, N. C. and Delfosse, X. and Forveille, T. and Allard, F. and Udry, S.}, title = {A new visual spectroscopic metallicity scale for M dwarfs: the ’Super-Index’ approach}, year = {2012}, month = {jun} }. Cool Stars 17 – 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun.
A Comparative Test of Metallicity Calibrations for M dwarfs @misc { author = {Neves, V. and Bonfils, X. and Santos, N. C.}, title = {A Comparative Test of Metallicity Calibrations for M dwarfs}, year = {2011}, month = {sep} }. Extreme Solar Systems II.
An Improved Metallicity Scale for M-Dwarfs @misc { author = {Neves, V. and Bonfils, X. and Santos, N. C.}, title = {An Improved Metallicity Scale for M-Dwarfs}, year = {2010}, month = {aug} }. Cool Stars 16: 16th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun.
Chemical abundances of 451 stars from the HARPS GTO planet search program Thin disc, thick disc, and planets @misc { author = {Neves, V. and Santos, N.C. and Sousa, S. G. and Correia, A. C. M. and Israelian, G.}, title = {Chemical abundances of 451 stars from the HARPS GTO planet search program Thin disc, thick disc, and planets}, year = {2009}, month = {oct} }. Towards Other Earths: Perspectives and limitations in the ELT era.
BOOK
Gonz&#225;lez Hern&#225;ndez, J.I., Israelian, G., Santos, N.C., Sousa, S., Delgado-Mena, E., Neves, V., Udry, S.(2010). Volatiles and refratories in solar analogs: No terrestial planet connection . Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 6. (S276). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 422-423.
Neves, V., Bonfils, X., Santos, N.C.(2010). Metallicity of M dwarfs: The link to exoplanets . Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 6. (S276). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 443-444.