Section of Veterinary Medicine

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Section of Animal Sciences and Bioeconomy

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Section of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

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Section of Production Engineering

LECTURE
“AI as a ‘Scientific Collaborator’: How Machine Learning is Transforming Research?”

Spaker:

Marcin Rzadeczka, Ph.D

Marcin Rzadeczka, Ph.D., is a researcher specializing in AI in mental health and computational psychiatry, with a strong interdisciplinary background spanning cognitive science, evolutionary psychopathology, and AI ethics. His work explores the compensation perspective on neurodiversity, particularly in autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, integrating evolutionary-computational models of cognitive biases. He has presented his research at several international conferences, including the Computational Psychiatry Conference at Trinity College Dublin and AI for Mental Health at the University of Oxford. He conducted a research stay at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, where he collaborated with the Human-Centered Data Analytics (HCDA) group. His postdoctoral research at IDEAS NCBR (Psychiatry and Computational Phenomenology research group) focused on human-LLM interactions in mental health applications, cognitive biases, and epistemic humility for neurodiverse-friendly AI. He has published his work in several international journals, such as JMIR Mental Health, Psychopathology, Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Community Mental Health.

Section of Food Sciences and Biotechnology

LECTURE
“Bio-deacetification and Bio-dealcoholization of Wines: The Magic of Yeasts in Improving Wine Quality.”

Alice Maria CorreiaVilela
Chemistry Research Centre (CQ-VR), Department of Agronomy (DAgro), School of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences (ECAV), University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta dos Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal;  

Alice Vilela holds a BSc in Enology, a Master’s in Genetics, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD). She is an Assistant Professor at UTAD and has published 85 articles in international scientific journals, 14 technical papers, 24 book chapters, and over 100 publications in conference proceedings. Vilela has supervised Ph.D. and master’s theses and oversaw undergraduate capstone projects in Enological Sciences and Biological Sciences. Her research focuses on the bio-reduction of volatile acidity in wines, wine bio-dealcoholization, wine microbiology, the sensory evaluation of food and wine, and the development of sensory tests.

She actively reviews for several journals, including Food Research International, the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Food Chemistry, the Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, and various MDPI Journals (Foods, Fermentation, Beverages, Molecules, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Materials). Additionally, she serves as an Academic Editor and is a member of the Editorial Board for several SCI journals.

In 2021-2024, Stanford University, USA, recognized her as being among the top 2% of scientists worldwide.

Section of Environmental Biology

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