Currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Physics Department at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA University Lisbon (FCT NOVA) and serves as an Assistant Professor in the same department.
Full member of the Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys-UNL) at the Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon.
External member of the IPBeja Evaluation and Quality Council.
Member of the NOVA AGING GROUP within the scope of NOVASaúde.
Part of the pool of evaluators for the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES).
Professor Cláudia Quaresma serves on the evaluation team for co-promoted R&D projects in the field of Biomedical Engineering. She is a member of the working group organizing the FCT Challenge.
FCT NOVA Ambassador.
Has 42 scientific publications indexed in Scopus (ORCID: 0000-0001-9978-261X and CIENCIA ID: 391A-FAFA-2B77).
Throughout her academic career, she has successfully supervised 42 Master's students and one PhD student in Biomedical Engineering; she is currently supervising five Master's students and four PhD students. She has received eight scientific and innovation awards.
Over the past five years, Professor Cláudia Quaresma has coordinated approximately 10 projects in partnership with National Health Service (SNS) hospitals and private companies.
Key Awards and Distinctions
Prémio Investigação Colaborativa Santander NOVA com o projecto Com@Rehab (equipa M. Fonseca, C. Quaresma, A. Londral, R. Costa, S. Carvalho, R. Silva)
Best Paper Award para o paper “Development and Validation of an Experimental Protocol to Evaluate Posture Control” (em co-autoria com Daniel Noronha Osório, E. Teixeira, F. Pimentel-Santos, H. Silva, H. Gamboa) atribuído por DoCEIS'2020
Prémio Hintt na área dos “Clinical Outcomes”, com o projecto VR4NeuroPain (equipa – C. Quaresma, M. Fonseca, H. Cardoso, N. Ferreira (2019)
Prémio Acredita Portugal 2018, com o projecto VR4NeuroPain (equipa – C. Quaresma, M. Fonseca, H. Cardoso, N. Ferreira (2018).
Prémio Investigação, pelos diversos projectos científicos que tem desenvolvido em prol da Saúde, destacando a área da Terapia Ocupacional. O Prémio foi atribuído pela Associação Portuguesa de Terapeutas Ocupacionais, que integra o European of Ocupacional Therapists for the European Countries (COTEC) e a World Federation of Occupational Therapy (2017).
Prémio Santa Casa Challenge, na área da Saúde atribuído ao projecto VR4NeuroPain (equipa – C. Quaresma, M. Fonseca, H. Cardoso, N. Ferreira (2016).
Melhor Professor do Ano do Departamento de Física (2015).
Prémio Santana Carlos, atribuído ao projecto SYPEC: Upgrading System for Posture Evaluation and Correction (equipa – C. Quaresma, P. Vieira, A. Jesus, H. Pereira, R. Almeida, L. Martins (2014).
Some of the Most Recent Publications
Ferreira, A., Santos, P., Dias, P., Alves, A., Carmo, B., Vilhena, F., Costa, S., Quaresma, C., & Quintão, C. (2020). RehabVisual: Application on Subjects with Stroke. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, N. Farhadi, F. Lopes, & H. Pereira (Eds.), Technological Innovation for Life Improvement - 11th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020, Proceedings (pp. 355-365). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 577). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45124-0_34
Osório, D.N., Teixeira, E., Pimentel-Santos, F., Silva, H., Gamboa, H., Quaresma, C. (2020) Development and Validation of an Experimental Protocol to Evaluate Posture Control In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, N. Farhadi, F. Lopes, & H. Pereira (Eds.), Technological Innovation for Life Improvement - 11th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020, Proceedings (pp. 387-394). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 577). Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45124-0_37
Dias, P., Ferreira, A., Quaresma, C., Quintão, C., Vigário, R. (2020). Assessing Visual Engagement for Visuomotor Skills Rehabilitation Training in Infants. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing pp. 272-279 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51369-6_37
Santos, C., Ferreira, A., Quaresma, & C. Quintão, C (2020). Rehabvisual: An application to stimulate visuomotor skills in preterm babies with developmental alterations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing pp 177-184 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_16
Quaresma, C., Gomes, M., Cardoso, H., Ferreira, N., Vigário, R., Quintão, C. & Fonseca, M., (2019) An integrated system combining virtual reality with a glove with biosensors for neuropathic pain: A concept validation. Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction vol. 781 274-284. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94334-3_28
Osório,D., Viana-Soares,R., Marto,J., Mendonça, M., Silva, H., Quaresma, C., Viana-Baptista, M., Gamboa, H. &Vieira H. (2019). Autonomous nervous system response to remote ischemic conditioning: heart rate variability assessment. Cardiovascular Disorders 19, Article number: 211
Caixeirinho, J., Almeida, C. & Quaresma, C. (2018). Occupational Participation and Institutionalized Elderly. Journal of Occupational Science 25(3), 1-10 doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2018.1465453.
Gabriel, A., Quaresma, C., Secca, M.F. & Vieira, P. (2018). Development and clinical application of Vertebral Metrics: using a stereo vision system to assess the spine. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-018-1789-0
Da Palma Goes, João, Rui Martins, Carla Quintão, Cláudia Quaresma, e Ricardo Nuno Afonso Vigário Physical Training Device for Animals With Therapeutical and Entertaining Component. Private - WO 2019/209129 A1, 2019.
Patente Dispositivo de avaliação da coluna Vertebral, pedido do registo em 07/03/2008, - PT103990, WO2009IB5018, EP22633531 (PT, DE, FR, UK), US9149208 (concedida na Europa e EUA)