CV - Mateus Joffily

Curriculum Vitae
Mateus JOFFILY
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address:
CIMEC - Universitá Studi Trento
Via delle Regole, 101
I-38123 Matterello (TN)
Italy
Telephone: +39-3707114474
E-mail: [email protected]
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 5 April 1973
Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France
Citizenship: Brazilian
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Single
DEGREES
2005
Ph.D. Biophysics. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thesis title: A
mathematical model of the basic dimensions of emotion.
2000
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dissertation title: Neurolab – A virtual instrument for controlling neuronal extracellular potential
acquisition.
1995
Electronic Engineer. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1990
Electronic Technician. Institute of Technology ORT, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
October 2007 - September 2009 Invited Professor/Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry of the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Activities:
(1) brain imaging analysis (fMRI and VBM); (2) biological signal processing (EDA and ECG);
(3) software development; (4) research on psychophysiology of emotions and Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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December 2005 - Spetember 2007 Research Engineer (IR-2) at the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS), France (leave without pay). Activities: (1) brain imaging analysis (fMRI); (2)
biological signal processing (EDA and ECG); (3) software development.
December 2000 - November 2002 Research Enginner at the Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas
Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Activities: (1) electrophysiology of primary
visual cortex; (2) psychophysiology of emotions; (3) brain imaging analysis (fMRI); (4)
biological signal processing (EDA, ECG, EOG); (5) software development (Matlab,
LabVIEW, MEL and Presentation).
May 1996 - May 1997 Computing Engineer at Fermi National Laboratory, United States. Activities:
(1) research on High Energy Physics; (2) network administrator; (2) software development (C,
C++, HTML, Unix and VMS shell scripting).
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
February 2010 - Present Posdoc at CIMeC - Centro interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello,
Trento, Italy.
September 2003 – December 2004 Research stage in the Institut des Sciences Cognitives, France.
Activities: (1) research on the role of emotion on decision making; (2) brain imaging analysis
(IRMf) ; (3) biological signal processing (EDA and ECG); (4) software development (Matlab,
Cogent, E-prime and Presentation).
March 2003 – January 2005 Ph.D., Biophysics. Concentrations: Neuroscience. Institute of
Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
February 1998 – December 2000 M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering. Concentrations: Biological
Signal Processing. Department of Biomedical Engineering (PEB/COPPE), Federal university
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
January 1995 – February 1995 Programming stage at the Computing Division, Fermi National
Laboratory (FermiLab), United States. Activities: software development and system
benchmarking (C, Unix scripting e HTML).
February 1991 – December 1995 University on Electronic Engineering. Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
July 1991 – December 1995 Scientific stage at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research
(CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Activities: (1) network administrator, (2) software development
(C, Unix and VMS scripting and HTML).
February 1988 – December 1990 High School, Electronic Technician. Institute of Technology
ORT.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Biostatistics – Introductory course for graduated students (PSP 710/780) – Institute of
Psychiatry of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Brazil. 28 Mars - 4 July 2008.
PROGRAMMING/COMPUTING SKILLS
• Programming Languages – Matlab, C/C++, LabVIEW, Tcl/Tk and HTML.
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• Psychophysical Software – Presentation, MEL, E-prime and Cogent.
• Statistical Software – R.
• Brain Imaging Software – SPM5 and Caret.
RESEARCH PROJECT REFEREE
• Cláudio Paleólogo Elefteriadis de França Santos (2008) “Symbolic dynamics in the
analysis of apneusis and sensorimotor task on functional MRI”. M.Sc. Defense. Department of
Biomedical Engineering (PEB/COPPE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Erika de Carvalho Rodrigues (2008) “Cerebral plasticity after body periphery modification”.
Ph.D. Project Proposal. Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Izabela Mocaiber Freire (2009) “Cardiovascular psychophysiology: affective cardiac
response”. Ph.D. Teaching Qualification. Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Ghislain Saunier (2009) “Empathy”. Ph.D. Teaching Qualification. Institute of Biophysics
Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
INTENATIONAL SCHOOL PARTICIPATION
13-14 May,2002 The fMRI Experience IV, Bethesda, United States.
2-6 September 2002 First IBRO School in Brazil (ISBRA), módulo : The neurobiology of
emotions, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
21 August - 15 September 2000 EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience, Trieste,
Italy.
8-21 September 1996 Computing for the High Energy Physics CERN School, Egmond aan
Zee, The Netherlands.
24 January - 13 February 1993 Lafex International School on High Energy Physics (LISHEP),
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
AWARDS
Juarez Aranha Ricardo Award for the work “A mathematical representation of the emotional
concepts of valence, arousal and attitude” Joffily, M.; Jandre, F.; Volchan, E., presented in the
XVIII Annual Meeting of the Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology
(FESBE) Brazil, 2003.
JOURNAL PUBLICATION
Joffily, M; Masclet, D.; Noussair, N.C.; Villeval, M.C. (2010) “ Emotions,
Cooperation”, (submitted)
Sanctions,
and
Bault, N.; Joffily M; Rustichini, A.; Coricelli, G. (2010) “Outperforming the others is more
rewarding than succeeding alone: the neural bases of social competitive behavior”, (submitted)
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Coricelli, G.; Joffily, M; Montmarquette, C.; Villeval, M.C. (2010) “Cheating, Emotions, and
Rationality: An Experiment on Tax Evasion”, Experimental Economics (accepted)
Freire, R.C.; Carvalho, M.R.; Joffily M; Zin, W.A.; Nardi, A.E. (2009) “Anxiogenic properties of
a virtual reality simulation for panic disorder with agoraphobia”, (accepted)
Pereira, M. G.; Erthal, F.C.S.; Oliveira, L.; Joffily, M.; Figueira, I.; Volchan, E.; Pessoa, L. (2009)
“Emotion affects action: Midcingulate cortex as a pivotal node of affective and motor
interaction”, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience (accepted)
Perakakis, P.; Joffily, M.; Taylor, M.; Guerra, P.; Vila, J. (2009) “KARDIA: a Matlab Software for
the Analysis of Cardiac Interbeat Intervals”, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,
(accepted)
Oliveira, L.A.; Pereira, P.P.; Pereira, M.; Oliveira, L.; Joffily, M.; Lang, P.; Figueira, I.; Volchan,
E. (2009) “Autonomic reactions to mutilation pictures: positive affect facilitates safety signal
processing”, Psychophysiology, 46(4), p.870-873.
Nascimento, B.E.M.; Oliveira, L.; Vieira, A.S.; Joffily M.; Gleiser S.; Pereira, M.; Cavalcante, T.;
Volchan E. (2008) “Eliciting Avoidance to Smoking: The Impact of Warning Labels in Brazil”,
Tobacco Control, 17, p.405-409.
Coricelli G., Critchley H.D., Joffily, M., O'Doherty J.D., Sirigu A., and Dolan R.J. (2005)
“Regret and its avoidance: a neuroimaging study of choice behaviour”, Nature Neuroscience, 8(9),
p.1255-1262.
Caggiano, D. and Joffily, M. (2002), “Functional magnetic resonance imaging for beginners: a
review of the fMRI Experience IV, 13–14 May 2002, Natcher Conference Center, National
Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA”. The Scientific World Journal, p.1803–1807.
Oliveira, L.; Volchan, E.; Pessoa, L.; Marques, R.F.; Pantoja, J.H.; Joffily, M.; Souza-Neto, D.;
Rocha-Miranda, C.E., (2002) “Contour integration in the primary visual cortex of the
opossum”, NeuroReport, 13(16), p.2001-2004.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Joffily M., Miranda M.S., Nigri A., Santoro A.F.S. (1995) “MAILBOOK: um unificador de
agendas de correio eletrônico”, CBPF-NT-006/95, Rio de Janeiro.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Giardini, F., Coricelli, G., Joffily, M., Sirigu, A. (2007) “The effect of desirability on confidence”.
Abdellaboui, M., Hey J.D. (Eds.) Advances in Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty.
Selected Papers from the FUR 2006 conference, Heidelberg: Springer.
CONFERENCE SUMMARIES
Mocaiber, I.; Erthal, F.S. ; Sanchez, T. A. ; Araujo, D. B. ; Volchan, E.; Joffily, M.; Pereira, M. G.;
Oliveira, L. “Ficção Atenua o Medo: Evidências de Neuroimagem” XXIV Annual Meeting of
the Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2009, Águas de
Lindóia.
Sanchez, T. A.; Mocaiber, I. ; Erthal, F.S.; Joffily, M.; Volchan, E.; Araujo, D.B. ; Pereira, M.G.;
Oliveira, L. “Modulação Neural Das Emoções pela Demanda de Atenção: Um estudo por
fMRI da Amígdala” XXIV Annual Meeting of the Federation of Brazilian Societies for
Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2009, Águas de Lindóia.
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Erthal, FS ; Pereira, M. G.; Oliveira, L.; Mocaiber, I.; Jofily, M. ; Volchan, E. ; Pessoa, L.
“Emotion Modulates Output Systems” 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Psychophysiological Research, 2009, Berlin.
Mocaiber, I. ; Erthal, FS ; Sanchez, T. A. ; Araujo, D. B.; Joffily, M. ; Volchan, Eliane ; Pereira,
M.G.; Oliveria, L. “Fiction Attenuates Fear: Neuroimaging Evidence” 49th Annual Meeting of
the Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2009, Berlin.
Rocha-Rego, V.; Pereira, M.G.; Joffily, M.; Oliveira, L.; Berger, W.; Marques, C.; Mendlowicz, M.;
Figueira, I ; Vochan, E. “Volume reduction in pre-motor cortical gray matter in victims of
urban violence with PTSD”. 25th Annual Meeting of The International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies, Georgia, 2009. v. 1. p. 246-246.
Rocha-Rego, V. ; Pereira, M ; Joffily, M. ; Oliveira, L ; Figueira, I. ; Vochan E. “Decreased premotor volume in victms of urban violence with PTSD”. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society
for Psychophysiological Research, 2009, Berlin. v. 46. p. 65-65.
Rocha-Rego, V.; Pereira M. G.; Joffily M.; Oliveira, L.; Fiszman, A.; Berger W.; Marques-Portella
C.; Mendlowicz M. V.; Figueira, I.; Volchan, E. “A negative correlation between peritraumatic
tonic immobility and grey matter volume in prefrontal regions in PTSD patients: a voxel based
morphometry (VBM) study”. I Congresso IBRO/LARC de Neurociências da América Latina,
Caribe e Península Ibérica, 2008. p. 1042.
Coricelli, G.; Joffily, M.; Montmarquette, C.; Villeval, M.C. “Physionomics of Tax Evasion:
Cheating Rationally or Deciding Emotionally”. 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Psychophysilogical Research (SPR), 2007. Psychophysiology, 2007. v. 42. p. S100.
Pereira, M. G.; Erthal, F.C.S.; Oliveira, L.; Joffily, M.; Figueira, I.; Volchan, E.; Pessoa, L.,
“Individual Differences in Brain Activations During Negative-Picture Behavioral
Interference”. 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysilogical Research (SPR),
2007. Psychophysiology, 2007. v. 42. p. S79.
Rodrigues E.C. ; Fontana, A. P. ; Joffily, M. ; Kilner, J. ; Vargas, C. D. ; Sirigu, A. “Action
Prediction in Unilateral Upper-Limb Amputees”. Progress in motor control VI, 2007, Santos.
Annals of Progress in Motor Control VI, Presented by International Society of Motor Control.
2007. v. 11. p. s38.
Fontana, A. P. ; Rodrigues E.C. ; Vargas, C. D. ; Kilner, J. ; Joffily, M. ; Sirigu, A. “Predicting a
hand action after parietal or premotor cortex lesion”. Progress in Motor Control VI, 2007,
Santos. Annals of Progress in Motor Control VI, Presented by International Society of Motor
Control, 2007. v. 11. p. s16.
Giardini, F. ; Coricelli, G.; Joffily M.; Sirigu, A. “The effect of desirability on confidence”. XII
International Conference on Foundations of Utility, Uncertainty and Risk FUR XII, 2006,
Roma, Itália.
Vieira, A. S. ; Nascimento, B. E. M.; Joffily M.; Oliveira, L. ; Volchan, E. “O impacto emocional
das fotos da campanha de controle do tabaco em universitários fluminenses”. XXI Annual
Meeting of the Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2006,
Águas de Lindóia.
Fontana, A. P. ; Rodrigues, E. C. ; Joffily, M. ; Kilner, J. ; Vargas, C. D. ; Sirigu, A. “Predicting an
observed movement after parietal or premotor cortex lesion”. XXI Annual Meeting of the
Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2006, Águas de Lindóia.
Fontana, A. P. ; Rodrigues E.C.; Vargas, C. D. ; Kilner, J. ; Joffily, M.; Sirigu, A. “Parietal and
premotor cortex contribution to motor prediction in human patients”. 36 th Society for
Neuroscience Meeting, 2006, Atlanta. Annals of the 36th annual meeting, Neuroscience, 2006,
v. 1. p. 1.
Joffily, M.; Avenanti, A.; Aglioti, S.M.; Sirigu, A. “Skin conductance and heart rate responses to
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the observation of pain in same and different race individuals”. 45th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Psychophysilogical Research (SPR), 2005, Lisbon. Psychophysiology, 2005. v. 42. p.
S70.
Pereira, M. G.; Volchan, E.; Erthal, F.C.S.; Joffily, M.; Joffily, M.; Oliveira, L.; Pessoa, L. “An
fMRI study of brain areas activated by mutilation pictures". 45th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Psychophysilogical Research (SPR), 2005. Psychophysiology, 2005. v. 42. p. S99.
Pereira, M G ; Joffily, M.; Volchan, E.e ; Oliveira, L. ; Erthal, F. C. S. ; Pessoa, L. . Brain
activation associated with freezing pictures. Primeiro Congresso Brasileiro de Neuroimagem
Funcional, 2005, Ribeirao Preto.
Soares, P.P. ; Oliveira, L.A.S. ; Joffily, M. ; Volchan, E. “Regulation of Heart Adrenergic
Response to Mutilated Pictures: Influence of Dispositional Positive Affect”. 44th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Psychophysilogical Research (SPR), 2004, Santa Fe.
Psychophysiology, 2004, v. 41. p. S33.
Fontana, A. P. ; Nascimento B.E.M. ; Pereria, M. G. ; Joffily, M.; Vargas, C. D. ; MachadoPinheiro W. ; Volchan, E. “Facial Expressions Interfere In Selective Attentional Processing”.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, 2004, San Francisco.
Joffily, M.; Jandre, F.; Volchan, E., “Um modelo matemático das dimensões básicas da emoção”,
XVIII Annual Meeting of the Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology
(FESBE), 2003, Brazil.
Joffily, M.; Alice Santos de Oliveira, L.; Oliveira, L. de; Volchan, E., “Context modulates skin
conductance response to unpleasant visual stimuli”, III International Conference “Emotions
and Brain”, 2003, Portugal.
Oliveira, L.A.S. ; Oliveira, L. ; Joffily, M. ; Volchan, E. . Context modulates skin conductance
response to unpleasant visual stimuli. 43th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Psychophysilogical Research (SPR), 2003, Chicago. Psychophysiology, 2003, v. 40. p. S65-S65.
Joffily, M.; Alice Santos de Oliveira, L.; Oliveira, L. de; Garcia-Pereira Fortes, M.; Volchan, E.,
“Resposta Eletrodérmica para Figuras Desagradáveis”. XVII Annual Meeting of the Federation
of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2002, Salvador.
Fontana, A. P. ; Facchinetti, L.D. ; Joffily, M.; Vargas, C.D. ; Pereira, Mirtes Garcia ; Ferreira, C.
T. ; Volchan, E. “Unattended faces interfere with recognition of facial expressions”. 12th
Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, 2003, Toronto. Brain and Cognition, 2003,
v.51, p. 168-169.
Fontana, A. P.; Volchan, E.; Facchinetti, L. D.; Garcia-Pereira, M.; Joffily, M.; Vargas, C.
D.; Ferreira Tocquer, C. T., “Emotional Faces Capture Attention”. XVII Annual Meeting of
the Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2002, Salvador.
Fontana, A. P. ; Facchinetti, L. D. ; Garcia-Pereira, M.; Joffily, M.; Vargas, C D ; Ferreira, C. T. ;
Volchan, E. “Emotional Unatended faces capture attention”. 3rd Forum of European
Neuroscience (FENS), 2002, Paris.
Fontana, A. P. ; Volchan, E. ; Facchinetti, L. ; VARGAS, C D ; Garcia-Pereira, M. ; Joffily, M.;
Ferreira, C. T. . Emotional interference on a face discrimination task. 32nd Annual Meeting of
the Society for Neuroscience, 2002, Orlando.
Oliveira, L.; Volchan, E.; Pessoa, L.; Pantoja, J.H.; Marques, R.F.; Souza-Neto, D.; Joffily, M.;
Rocha-Miranda, C.E., “Relação entre integração de barra luminosa em situação de oclusão do
campo receptor e somação espacial por alongamento do estímulo”, XV Annual Meeting of the
Federation of Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2000, Caxambu.
Joffily, M; Nadal, J.; Volchan, E. “NEUROLAB – Virtual Instrument for Controling the
Acquisition of Neuronal Extracellular Potentials”, XV Annual Meeting of the Federation of
Brazilian Societies for Experimental Biology (FESBE), 2000, Caxambu.
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Joffily, M; Nadal, J.; Volchan, E “NEUROLAB – Virtual Instrument for Controling the
Acquisition of Neuronal Extracellular Potentials”, XVII Brazilian Congress on Biomedical
Engineering (CBEB), Curitiba, 2000, p. 680-683.
Alves G.A., Joffily, M., Miranda, M., Santoro A., Souza, M.G.H. “WWW Oriented remote Job
Submission, Monitoring and Management over Internet”, Computing on High Energy Physics
(CHEP97), Berlim, 1997.
Joffily M., Miranda M.S., Nigri A., Santoro A.F.S., “MAILBOOK: An E-mail Address Handling
Tool”, Computing on High Energy Physics (CHEP95), Rio de Janeiro, 1995.
UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE
Joffily, M.; Nigri, A. ; Miranda, M. ; Santoro, A.F. . MAILBOOK: An email address handling tool.
1995.
Alves, G. A. ; Santoro, Alberto ; Mirand, M. ; Joffily, M. ; Souza, Moacyr . WWW Oriented
Remote Job Submission Monitoring and Management over Internet . 1997.
Joffily, M.; Volchan, E. ; Nadal, J. . Neurolab - Instrumento virtual para o controle da aquisição
de potenciais extracelulares neuronais. 2000.
Joffily, M. : Electrodermal Activity and Electrocardiogram Analysis Toolbox. 2005.
Joffily, M. : SPM5 Batch Toolbox. 2007.
Perakakis, P; Joffily, M.; Vila, J.: Kardia: a Matlab Toolbox for the Analysis of Cardiac Interbeat
Intervals. 2008.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Alves, G. A. ; Santoro, Alberto ; Motta, Helio da ; Mendes, M. ; SILVA, C. ; Miranda, M. ; Souza,
Moacyr ; Joffily, M. . Lafex International School on High Energy Physics- LISHEP95. 1995.
(Organização de evento/Congresso).
Alves, G. A. ; Santoro, Alberto ; Silva, C. ; Motta, Helio da ; Mendes, M. ; Miranda, M. ; Joffily, M.
; Souza, Moacyr ; Shellard, R. . Computing in High Energy Physics - CHEP95. 1995. (Organização
de evento/Congresso).
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