Cardoso-Cruz H is a researcher at the i3S and Oporto Medicine Faculty (FMUP). His research interest is the relationship between pain and cognitive functions, namely the prefrontal-hippocampus dynamics during working-memory processing. His research involves an interdisciplinary approach, combining in-vivo electrophysiology techniques, behavior evaluation, optogenetics brain stimulation, development of analytical tools for the study of neuronal dynamics, and design and implementation of algorithms for decoding neuronal data.