research interests
My research interests span several aspects of complex systems, from cultural evolution and dynamics of human cooperation to networks science.
Within these topics, I have the pleasure to work in collaboration with Jorge M. Pacheco, Sven Van Segbroeck, Tom Lenaerts, David Dingli, Jeromos Vukov, Max Souza, Fabio Chalub, Marta D. Santos, Flávio Pinheiro, João Moreira, André Almeida, Brian Skyrms, Luís Moniz Pereira, Han The Anh, Andreia Mordido, Vítor Vasconcelos, Sara A. Encarnação, Marcos Gaudiano and Susana S. Martins.
research & teaching positions
2012-
Assistant Professor (Professor Auxiliar) at the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST/UTL), Portugal.
2010-11
Research Fellow (Investigador Auxiliar - Carreira de Investigação) at the Computer Science Department and Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Centria), Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal.
2008-10
Research Fellow (Chargé de Recherches) of the Fund for Scientific Research F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium), at the Machine Learning Group (MLG) of the Computer Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
2007-08
Research Fellow (Chargé de Recherches) of the Fund for Scientific Research F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium) at the at the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
2005-07
Marie Curie EST (Ph.D.) research fellow. 3-year European Commission's Marie Curie scholarship at the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
2004
Undergraduate researcher funded by the project Cultural and genetical evolution of cooperation at the ATP group (CMAF) hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Jorge M. Pacheco.
2003
Undergraduate researcher funded by the project Theory and Phenomenology of High Energy Physics at the Nuclear Physics Center of the University of Lisbon, funded by a scholarship of the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), under the supervision of Luís Bento.
education
2007
Ph.D. in Computer Science / Engineering Sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, as a Marie Curie EST fellow, 2005-07 (under the supervision of Hugues Bersini, Jorge M. Pacheco and Tom Lenaerts).
2006
M.Sc. (DEA) in Computer Science / Applied Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (under the supervision of Hugues Bersini, Jorge M. Pacheco and Tom Lenaerts).
Sept, 2004
Diploma in Physics, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
editorial & other scientific activities
2011-
Member of the editorial board of the Journal Minds and Machines, Springer.
2005-
I have acted as a Referee for the following scientific journals:
- Advances in Complex Systems
- Adaptive Behavior
- Animal Behaviour
- Artificial Life
- BioSystems
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
- Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
- Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
- Climate Change
- Dynamic Games and Applications
- Evolutionary Ecology
- European Physical Journal B
- Europhysics Letters / EPL
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
- Journal of Theoretical Biology
- Nature Communications
- New Journal of Physics
- Minds and Machines
- Physica A
- Physics Letters A
- Physical Review E
- Physical Review Letters
- PLoS Computational Biology
- PLoS One
- PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Rationality and Society
- Theoretical Population Biology
- Scientific
Reports
2008-
- I have served as external examiner and jury member for the award of PhD degrees at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL, Portugal), Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain), Universidade de Lisboa (UL, Portugal) and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Portugal).
- I have served as jury member for the award of M.Sc. degrees at Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
else... (2005- )
- Member of ECAL 2013 programme committee
- Member of Alife 13 programme committee
- Member of Alife 12 programme committee
- Member of the scienfic and organizing committee of the European Mathematical Society Summer School 2011 (SSMTB 2011), Évora, Portugal
- Member of ECAL 2011 programme committee (2011)
- Member of Alife 12 programme committee (2010)
- Referee of the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2007 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag).
- 2006. Referee of the Proceedings of the International Conference in Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag)
