Francisco C. Santos (head)

Full Professor of Computer Science of Instituto Superior Técnico (U. Lisbon), and researcher of GAIPS/INESC-ID. He is interested in the development of scientific computing tools to understand collective dynamics in social and life sciences. He has been working on topics such as the evolution of cooperation, network science, and environmental governance.

Jorge M. Pacheco (co-head)

Theoretical Physicist active in a variety of research topics, ranging from many-body physics to mathematical description of evolutionary processes such as human cancer, evolution of cooperation and complex networks.

Fernando P. Santos

Completed his PhD at IST, U. Lisbon and GAIPS/INESC-ID in 2018 with Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Ana Paiva as PhD Advisors.
He subsequently became a Post-Doc at Princeton University with Simon A. Levin.
At present he is Associate Professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam.

Pedro Calheiros Souto

With a BSc in Economics and Masters in Finance and Computer Eng. (IST, U. Lisbon), he is pursuing PhD studies while working at the Bank of Portugal. He is interested in the application of population dynamics, artificial intelligence, and network science tecniques to finance.
Advisors: Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Fernando P. Santos.


Carlos M. Garrido

Carlos finished in 2023 his MSc in Theoretical Physics at IST under the supervision of Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and José Luís Martins, and intends to pursue PhD studies on Cooperation and Climate Change Mitigation.