Short Bio

Dr Barros is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) since June 2020 in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, UK. He is the head of the Unconventional Communications and Computing Laboratory, which is part of the Communications and Networks Research Group.

He received the PhD in Computer Science at the South East Technological University*, Ireland, in 2016. He previously held multiple academic positions with prestigious grants in the Tampere University, Finland, (MSCA-IF) and Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland (IRC GOI Postoc).

Dr Barros has worked as a PI and Co-I in several grants winning a total of +€1.5M funded by the European Commission, BBSRC, Innovate UK, and others. Dr Barros is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the EPSRC and BBSRC Engineering Biology Peer Review Colleges and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He received the CONNECT Prof. Tom Brazil Excellence in Research Award in 2020.

He has over 80 research peer-reviewed scientific publications in top journals and conferences such as Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in the areas of molecular and unconventional communications, biomedical engineering, bionano science and Beyond 5G.

Since 2020, he is a review editor for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal in the area of unconventional communications. He also served as guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications and Digital Communications Networks journals.


Media Coverage

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More intelligence in the network




Research Interests

Molecular Intercellular Communications

I seek to design communication systems for synthetic and natural biological cells or bionano machines using the following information carriers: calcium signalling, spikes, synapes and quorum sensing.
Biocomputing

I seek to model and apply principles of synthetic biology and control theory to the design of biological bionano computing devices that can be used as fully biocompatible implantable sensors and actuators.
Implantable Biocyber Interfaces

I seek to design implantable biocyber interfaces, such as biochips, to perform fully biocompatible distributed sensing/actuation in living systems.
AI in Biology and Medicine

I seek to develop AI models for computational biology and microscopic images towards realistic digital reconstructions of human tissues under natural and disease conditions.

Recent Papers

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Analysis of the Information Capacity of Neuronal Molecular Communications under Demyelination and Remyelinatio

MDPI International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Astrocytes exhibit a protective role on neuronal firing patterns under chemically-induced seizures in neuron-astrocyte co-cultures

Nature Scientific Reports

Engineering Calcium Signaling of Astrocytes for Neural-Molecular Computing Logic Gates


ACM Computing Surveys

Security in Brain-Computer Interfaces: State-of-the-art, opportunities, and future challenges

Contact

Address

5B.535,Colchester Campus, University of Essex, UK.

Email

m.barros@essex.ac.uk

Phone

+44 01206 872336
*South East Technological University was previously known as Waterford Institute of Technology from May 2022
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