Prof. Jonas Rodrigues

Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. His activities in Brazil included the supervision of undergraduate dental students and graduate (master and PhD) candidates during dental treatments as well in conducting clinical trials at UFRGS Dental Teaching Hospital. His current scientific research is focussed on cariology, mainly related to caries diagnosis (detection methods) and minimal intervention for caries treatment in children (i.e. sealing of dental caries, caries infiltration, dentin caries management and selective caries removal. During his 1-year stay as Visiting Professor at Charité - Berlin University, he is involved in projects related to Artificial Intelligence and diagnosis focusing on Deep Learning for Dental Image Diagnostics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Falk Schwendicke.