| 2013 FCT Post-Doctoral Fellowship SFRH/BPD/97449/2013 |
| 2008 UT Austin | Portugal Program Doctoral Scholarship SFRH/BD/47750/2008 |
| Elsevier's World Cancer Day Our paper "Breast cancer surgery with augmented reality", published in The Breast, has been included in Elsevier's World Cancer Day article collection, 2022 |
| Projecto de Inovação Pedagógica 2021, PIP Prize entitled "Técnico Reality Lab" (leading member), Lisboa, Portugal, Técnico Lisboa |
| Projecto de Inovação Pedagógica 2021, PIP Prize entitled "Lourenço Fernandes Memorial XR Lab" (participant member), Lisboa, Portugal, Técnico Lisboa |
| Projecto de Inovação Pedagógica 2020, PIP Prize entitled "Touch on Chemistry” (participant member), Lisboa, Portugal, Técnico Lisboa |
| Projecto de Inovação Pedagógica 2019, PIP Prize entitled "VR to teach VR” (leading member), Lisboa, Portugal, Técnico Lisboa |
| Editors' Choice - Medical Engineering & Physics Our paper ‘On a "Columbus' Egg": Modeling the Shape of Asymptomatic, Dysplastic and Impinged Hip Joints’ has been selected as the Editor’s Choice for the September edition of Medical Engineering and Physics, 2018. |
| MICCAI Educational Challenge 2018 (finalist). Our tutorial "3D Reconstruction of CT Colonography Models for VR/AR Applications using Free Software Tools" made it to the top 4 educational materials covering fundamental concepts in medical image computing and computer-assisted interventions, MICCAI Educational Initiative. |
| Auggie Breakthrough Nominee 2018. Our research project on Immersive Radiology was nominated to the Auggie Awards organized by VRFirstOfficial and ARealityEvent. |
| Best INESC-ID Junior Researcher Prize 2018, Lisboa, Portugal, INESC-ID Lisboa |
| Nominee for the Best INESC-ID Junior Researcher Prize 2017, Lisboa, Portugal, INESC-ID Lisboa |
| Nominee for the Best INESC-ID Junior Researcher Prize 2016, Lisboa, Portugal, INESC-ID Lisboa |
| Inaugural OpenSim Virtual Workshop, Coolest Video: Contact for Tackle Simulations, Stanford University, California, April 25 to May 6, 2016, NIH National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research |
| 2014 NCSRR Visiting Scholars Travel Award, Stanford University, California, August 25 to August 27, 2014, NIH National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research |
| Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2013 (finalist), Porto, Portugal, 2013, Fraunhofer Portugal |
| 2012 OpenSim Developer's Week Travel Award, Stanford University, California, July 16 to July 20, 2012, NIH National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research |
| CIME Grant to participate in the CIME course on IsoGeometric Analysis: a New Paradigm in the Numerical Approximation of PDEs, CIME-EMS Summer School in Applied Mathematics, Cetraro, Italy, June 18 to June 22, 2012, CIME Foundation |
| Carlos Lima Award (honorable mention) attributed to the work intitled: "Pressão de contacto intra-articular no conflito femuro-acetabular, estudo tridimensional por elementos finitos" by P. Rego, J.P. Jorge, F.M. Simões, E.B. Pires, D.S. Lopes, P. Pinto, A. Spranger, F. Oliveira, A. Gaspar, J. Monteiro, Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology |