CV

Education

• Ph.D in Physics, Universidade do Minho, 2016 

  • Thesis: Characterization of Self-Organizing Processes in Complex Networks

  • Advisors: Jorge M Pacheco and Francisco C. Santos

• M.S. in Nonlinear and Statistical Physics, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade, 2011

  • Thesis: The impact of diversity in the emergence of cooperation

  • Advisors: Jorge M Pacheco and Francisco C. Santos

• B.S. in Physics, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2009

  • Final Project: The evolution of Language as a stochastic process

  • Advisor: Ana Nunes

Appointments

• Since 2022, Assistant Professor (NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

• Since 2018, Integrated Member of MagIC Research Center (NOVA IMS - Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

• Since 2018, Member of the NOVA IMS Scientific Council  (NOVA IMS - Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

• 2018-2022, Invited Assistant Professor (NOVA IMS - Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

• 2016-2018, Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab (Supervisor: César A. Hidalgo)

• 2015, Visiting Graduate Student at Macro Connections Group (Supervisor: César A. Hidalgo)

• 2013-2016, Research Assistant at the Center for Molecular and Environmental Biology (Universidade do Minho)

• 2013-2016, Research Assistant at GAPIS/INESC-ID (Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa) 

• 2013, Short-Term Scholar at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Program: Cooperation and the Evolution of Multicellularity)

• 2008-2014, Research Assistant at ATP-Group/CMAFUL (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa) 

Summer Schools & Hackatons

• 2022, Rate Induced Transitions in Network Systems, Banff International Research Station (Canda)

• 2018, Instructor at AGEAS Hackathon, NOVA SBE Venture Lab (Portugal)

• 2016, B4 - Bots, Bits, Brain, and Behavior, IF Valparaíso (Chile)

• 2015, 2nd DataStorm Summer School, Instituto Superior Tecnico da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)

• 2013, Cooperation and the Evolution of Multicellularity Program, Kavli Institute UC Santa Barbara (USA)

• 2012, Social Structure Summer School, CRC Evolution of Social Behavior group at University of Göttingen (Germany)

Participation in Research and Consultancy Projects

Consultancy

• 2023, Improving the Efficiency and Transparency of Procurement in Portugal with a Focus on Strengthening the Control Framework

  • OECD and Tribunal de Contas

  • Team: Flávio L. Pinheiro & Bruno Damásio

• 2022, Moldova – In the midst of crisis lies opportunity for smart diversification of Moldova by attending EU nearshoring calls?

  • World Bank

  • Team: Flávio L. Pinheiro & Dominik Hartmann

• 2021, Cyprus – Identifying Synergies for productive sophistication. 

  • World Bank

  • Team: Flávio L. Pinheiro & Dominik Hartmann

• 2020, Development Opportunities of Mexico South States 

  • World Bank

  • Team: Flávio L. Pinheiro and Dominik Hartmann

• 2019/20, Data Science Advisor

  • Municipality of Lisbon

Research Projects (Portugal)

• 2020/23, MapIntel – Plataforma de Análise Visual Interativa para Inteligência Competitiva 

  • DSAIPA/DS/0116/2019, FCT Portugal,

  • Principal Investigator: Fernando Bação

• 2020/23, C-Tech — Climate Driven Technologies for Low Carbon Cities,

  • SI & IDT, FCT/MIT Portugal

  • Principal Investigator: Miguel Neto 

• 2020/23, Bee2WasteCrypto

  • SI & IDT, FCT/CMU Portugal,

  • Principal Investigator: Miguel Neto

• 2019/21, Urban Co-Creation Data Lab (UCD Lab) 

  • CEF Telecom, 2018-EU-IA-0099

  • Principal Investigator: Miguel Neto

• 2014/19, Engineering Cooperation in Climate Governance

  • PTDC/EEI/SII/5081/2014, FCT Portugal,

  • Principal Investigator: Francisco C. Santos

• 2015/20, Stochastic Dynamics of Collective Action 

  • PTDC/MAT/STA/3358/2014, FCT Portugal,

  • Principal Investigator: Jorge M. Pacheco

• 2014/15, Padrões de Mobilidade dos Estudantes do Ensino Superior

  • Project funded by A3ES,

  • Principal Investigator(s): Carla Sá and Sara Encarnação

• 2014/15, MAS-G2: Multi-Agent Simulation of Global Governance

  • EXPL/EEI-SII/2556/2013, FCT Portugal

  • Principal Investigator: Francisco C. Santos.

• 2011/14, Stochastic Co-evolutionary Dynamics of Signaling and Cooperation

  • PTDC/MAT/122897/2010, FCT Portugal,
 

  • Principal Investigator: Jorge M. Pacheco.

• 2010/13, Co-evolution and Self-organization of Cooperation

  • PTDC/FIS/101248/2008, FCT Portugal

  • Principal Investigator: Francisco C. Santos.

• 2006/10, Cultural and Genetic Evolution of Cooperation

  • PDTC/HEC/60360/2004, FCT Portugal

  • Principal Investigator: Jorge M. Pacheco.

Research Projects (International)

• Plataforma para la toma de decisiones en educación superior  

  • FONDEF/ID19I10413, Fondef, Chile,

  • Principal Investigator: Christian Candia

• Crescimento inteligente, inclusivo e sustentável? Novas perspectivas da complexidade econômica, mobilidade e eficiência social 

  • CNPq - Universal 2021 - Processo 406943/2021-4, Brazil

  • Principal Investigator: Dominik Hartmann

Referee Activities

Applied Network Science, Springer;
Research Policy, Elsevier;
Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis;
Nature Communications Physics, Nature Publishing Group;
Applied Mathematical Computation, Elsevier;
Entropy, MDPI;
Journal of Economic Geography, Elsevier;
Nature Physics, Nature Publishing Group;
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Frontiers Media;
Artificial Life, MIT Press;
Adaptive Behavior, Sage Journals;
Computer in Biology and Medicine, Elsevir;
Physical Review Letters, APS;
International Journal of Modern Physics C, World Scientific;
Journal of Complex Networks, Oxford Univ. Press; PLoS
Computational Biology, Public Library of Science;
PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science;
Journal of Theoretical Biology, Elsevier;
JSTAT, IOPScience;
Scientific Reports, Nature Pub. Group;
Physical Review E, APS;
JRS Interface, Journal of the Royal Society;
Physica A, Elsevier;
Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer;
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, Elsevier

Participation in Conferences Program Committees

2024

• European Conference in Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) 

• 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

• Conference on Complex Systems 2024 (CCS'24)

• Conference on Economic Complexity (CEC)

2023

• European Conference in Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023)

• International Conference on Computational Science

• 12th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

2022

• 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications 

• Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2022)

• 21st EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2021

• Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (2021)

• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021) 

• INForum

2020

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020)

• Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems 2020

• International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2020)

• 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

• INForum 2020

• European Conference in Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)

Before 2019

• Complex Networks 2019

• INForum 2019

• The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications 

• Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems 2019

• Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems 2018

• 9th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2018)

Invited Talks and Workshops

Invited Talks

• [Feb 2024] Learn & Drinks at GALP, Lisboa, Portugal

• [Sep 2023] DataCICS Seminars, Santiago, Chile

• [April 2023] Ciclo de Conferências As novas profissões em Ciências Cognitivas e do Comportamento, ISPA, Portugal

• [July 2019] CARA 2019 – Colóquio de Análise de Redes, Lisboa, Portugal 

• [November 2018] Master Class Series at the Porto Business School, Porto, Portugal

• [July 2017] Seminar at Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany

• [June 2017] Geography Seminars FSCH, Lisboa, Portugal

• [March 2017] Innovation Space Workshop, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• [June 2016] B4 - Bots, Bits, Brain and Behavior, Santiago, Chile

• [April 2010] Fronteiras da Matemática, Lisbon, Portugal Oral Presentation

Contributed Talks

• 23rd International Conference on Computational Science, Prague, Czechia Toxicity in Evolving Twitter Topics

• Conference on external Statistics by Banco de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal

• The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal

• The Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, USA 

• International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems 2018, Stockholm, Sweden

• NetSci 2018, Paris, France

• Conference of Complex Systems 2017, Cancun, México

• International Conference on Computational Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany Oral Presentation – Mapping the Higher Education Network

• NetSci - Education, Indiana, USA

• American Association of Geography Economic Geography Sessions, Boston, USA Oral Presentation – How Countries Jump in the Product Space?

• MAP-Fis Conference 2015, Braga, Portugal

• European Conference on Artifial Life 13, York, UK

• CompleNet 2015, New York, USA

• European Conference on Complex Systems 13, Barcelona, Spain

• Social Structure Summer School, Göttingen, Germany

• EvoBio 2012, Malaga, Spain

• DSABNS, Lisbon, Portugal

• MAP-Fis Conference 2012, Braga, Portugal

• Oficinas de Investigação do CITCEM 2012, Porto, Portugal

• Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva, Lisbon, Portugal

• European Conference of Complex Systems 2010, Lisbon, Porugal

• Biology Mathematics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Oral Presentation

• The Mathematics of Darwin Legacy, Lisbon, Portugal Poster Presentation

Outreach Activities

Social Dynamics Seminars (https://www.socdynseminars.eu) — A series of seminars organized by a multidisciplinary collective of researchers in Data, Computational and Mathematical sciences across borders.

Network Interventions for the Social Good  — Organization of a workshop during the 9th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2018), to take place in Boston (July 2018). Aimed at bringing together experts in the application of network science to develop social interventions for the social good.

MIT Media Lab Workshop in Japan — Part of a team of 10 researchers from the MIT Media Lab that travel to Japan in January 2018 for a 5-day workshop to engage with Media Lab sponsor companies in Tokyo, Osaka, and Hamamatsu. Each workshop involved a 10-minute presentation and ideation sessions with members of the hosting companies. I traveled as the representative of the Collective Learning Group. The Workshop was coordinated by Mirei Rioux.

Collective Learning WorkshopMember of the organizing committee of a workshop during the Spring Members Event of 2017 at the MIT Media Lab to present the research conducted at the Collective Learning group to the sponsor-members of the Media Lab.

Postdoc and Research Scientists Seminars at the MIT Media Lab — Member of the organizing committee of a series of seminars at the MIT Media Lab to bring together the postdoc and research scientists’ community of the lab. In each session, either a postdoc or a faculty presents ongoing research and discusses career challenges.

ATP Lectures — Member of the organizing committee of a series of lectures aimed at bringing to Portugal some of the most influential scientists and thinkers on the application of Evolutionary Concepts to nowadays-scientific problems. It counted with the participation of Dirk Semman (Germany), Karl Sigmund (Austria), Juval Portugali (Israel), Hisashi Ohtsuki (Japan), Brian Skyrms (USA), Simon A. Levin (USA), György Szabó (Hungary), Elliot Wagner (USA), Yoh Iwasa (Japan) and Alessandro Tavoni (Italy).