Education:
- Graduation (4y diploma) in Physics, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Final grade: 18/20.
- PhD in Physics - Evolutionary Game Theory and Network Science (2008-2012, University of Lisbon). Supervised by Prof. Jorge Pacheco and Prof. Ana Nunes. Thesis entitled "Evolutionary dynamics of collective action in structured populations". Approved with Distinction & Honors.
- PostDoc in Evolutionary Game Theory and Network Science (2013-2014, University of Aveiro, Portugal). Supervised by Prof. José Mendes and Prof. Sergey Dorogovtsev.
- Master in Science Communication (2012-2015, New University of Lisbon, Portugal). Thesis entitled "Science in fiction: discussing science through literature".
Professional Experience in Science Communication:
- September 2014 - October 2015: Projects Assistant at Pavillion of Knowledge - Ciência Viva, Lisbon, Portugal.
- November 2015 - February 2016: Communications Officer of the project ClimAdaPT.Local - Municipal Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change.
- March 2016 - July 2021: Coordinator of the Communication Office of cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (University of Lisbon, Portugal).
- August 2021 - present: Communication and Image Unit of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
- 2020-2023: Vice-President of SciComPt – Portuguese Science and Technology Communication Network.
Further Training in Science Communication:
- Online course 'Science communication' of the LearnToEngage project, September 17 - December 16, 2018.
- ‘Scientific Writing and Communication’ – cE3c Advanced Course by Gabor Lovei (Aarhus University, Denmark), 22-26 January 2018 (University of Lisbon, Portugal).
- Low Budget Science Filmmaking: taught by George Chan, 23-27 October 2017, Évora (Portugal).
- Erice International School of Science Journalism 2017: 1-6 July 2017, Erice, Sicily, Italy.
- The Elements of Journalism: taught by Walter Dean (training director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists), October-December 2016, New University of Lisbon. Grade: 18/20.
- Courses “Scientific Revolution” (grade: 17/20) and “Historiography of Science” (grade: 18/20): taught by Henrique Leitão, September-December 2015, University of Lisbon.
Teaching:
Trainer of the following 1-day courses, aimed at Bachelor and Master Students:
Trainer of the Advanced Course "Science and the Media - bringing together scientists, journalists and society", with has already completed six editions and welcomed about 90 students.
- "How to structure a scientific report?" (December 8, 2017; March 19, 2018; April 7, 2018),
- "Oral Communication of Science: Speaking in Public More Effectively" (February 24, 2018).
Trainer of the Advanced Course "Science and the Media - bringing together scientists, journalists and society", with has already completed six editions and welcomed about 90 students.
Selected Communications in SciComm:
Oral communications:
Posters:
- Supporting researchers, students and staff in better communicating science, at Ciências ULisboa, PCST Venice Symposium (September 2023).
- Reinventing myself in science: a love story, invited speaker at BIODIV Students Meeting 2023 (April 2023).
- Chair of the round table "Communication of science: The challenges of the new generations of scientists", 2nd Chem & Biochem Students Meeting (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon), Portugal.
- Invited talk "The importance of communicating (science) clearly to involve society", ReSist Journeys - Lisbon Resilient to Earthquakes (Lisbon, Portugal), 8 June 2022 (check the recording here).
- Invited talk "How can you better use social media to communicate science?" (1h30 duration): International School and Conference on Network Science 2022 (Oporto, Portugal) (check the recording here)
- Workshop "Science in the news: promoting more dialogue between scientists and journalists" by invitation (2h duration); Frontiers in E3 - cE3c Annual Meeting 2019, July 2019, National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC).
- Invited speaker in the session "Ten years of FameLab in Portugal - from the Pavillion of Knowledge to all the districts of the country", SciComPT2019 Congress - Portuguese National Congress on Science Communication, May 2019, University of Aveiro (Portugal).
- Co-moderator of the session “What is the role of Communication Offices of scientific institutions? From media to outreach, from scientists to society”: SciCom PT 2017 Congress – Portuguese National Congress on Science Communication, October 2017, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
- Presentation "How to communicate climate change?”, as one of the invited speakers of the session “When communicators and scientists want to teach each other”: SciCom PT 2016 Congress – Portuguese National Congress of Science Communication, May 2016, Pavillion of Knowledge – Ciência Viva, Portugal.
- FameLab Talking Science – Informative Session (joint presentation with science communication consultant José Vítor Malheiros): Marie Curie Alumni Association 2015, February 2015, Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, Porto, Portugal.
Posters:
- Communicate Science in Ciências ULisboa: Forming Community (SciComPt 2021 Portuguese National Congress on Science Communication, 23-25 June 2021, online).
- Short Courses: Sharing Knowledge with Students, from Students (International Conference 'New Perspectives in Science Education', March 21-22, 2019, Florence, Italy).
- With and for the students: Short Courses for sharing knowledge with an undergraduate audience, (ESOF 2018 - EuroScience Open Forum, July 9-14, 2019, Toulouse, France).
- Science in Fiction: Discussing Science Through Literature (SciComPt 2016 Portuguese National Congress on Science Communication, May 2016, Pavillion of Knowledge – Ciência Viva, Portugal).
Also... Scientific Research Publications:
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
Biased imitation in coupled evolutionary games in interdependent networks
Marta D. Santos, Sergey N. Dorogovtsev and José F. F. Mendes,
Nature Scientific Reports 4, 4436 (2014)
[e-link] (you can also find this article in arXiv repository, here)
Origin of peer influence in social networks
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco,
Physical Review Letters, 112, 098702 (2014)
[e-link] Press: [Science2.0] [Público]
Individual memory and the emergence of cooperation
João Moreira, Jeromos Vukov, Cláudia Sousa, Francisco C. Santos, André F. d'Almeida, Marta D. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco,
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 85 (1), pp.233-239 (2013).
[e-link]
Dynamics of N-Person Snowdrift Games in Structured Populations
Marta D. Santos, Flávio L. Pinheiro, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 315,pp.81-86 (2012).
[e-link]
Evolutionary Dynamics of Climate Change under Collective-Risk Dilemmas
Francisco C. Santos, Vítor Vasconcelos, Marta D. Santos, Pedro Neves and Jorge M. Pacheco
Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS) Vol. 22, Supp. Issue (1) 1140004 (2012).
[e-link]
Individual Cognition and the Complexity of Cooperation
André F. d'Almeida, João Moreira, Marta D. Santos, Jeromos Vukov, Francisco C. Santos, Cláudia Sousa and Jorge M. Pacheco,
Folia Primatologica, Vol. 82 (6), pp.372-372 (2011).
[e-link]
Evolution of social diversity under the Distributed Prisoner's Dilemma
Flávio L. Pinheiro, João Moreira, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Int. J. of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
(accepted)
Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games
Francisco C. Santos, Marta D. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Nature Vol. 454, pp.213-216 (2008).
[e-link] Press (selected): [Público] [Ciência Hoje] [PhysOrg] [Science2.0]
Publications in Conference Proceedings:
The Universality of Peer-Influence in Social Networks
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, p. 149 (2015)
Collective Evolutionary Dynamics and Spatial Reciprocity under the N-Person Snowdrift Game
Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
in Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing System,
J. Suzuki and T. Nakano (Eds.): BIONETICS 2010, LNICST 87, pp.178-188, Springer (2012).
Social diversity favors the emergence of cooperative behavior
Francisco C. Santos, Marta D. Santos, Sven Van Segbroeck and Jorge M. Pacheco
Proceedings of the Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, B-paper No. 86 (2009).
Biased imitation in coupled evolutionary games in interdependent networks
Marta D. Santos, Sergey N. Dorogovtsev and José F. F. Mendes,
Nature Scientific Reports 4, 4436 (2014)
[e-link] (you can also find this article in arXiv repository, here)
Origin of peer influence in social networks
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco,
Physical Review Letters, 112, 098702 (2014)
[e-link] Press: [Science2.0] [Público]
Individual memory and the emergence of cooperation
João Moreira, Jeromos Vukov, Cláudia Sousa, Francisco C. Santos, André F. d'Almeida, Marta D. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco,
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 85 (1), pp.233-239 (2013).
[e-link]
Dynamics of N-Person Snowdrift Games in Structured Populations
Marta D. Santos, Flávio L. Pinheiro, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 315,pp.81-86 (2012).
[e-link]
Evolutionary Dynamics of Climate Change under Collective-Risk Dilemmas
Francisco C. Santos, Vítor Vasconcelos, Marta D. Santos, Pedro Neves and Jorge M. Pacheco
Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS) Vol. 22, Supp. Issue (1) 1140004 (2012).
[e-link]
Individual Cognition and the Complexity of Cooperation
André F. d'Almeida, João Moreira, Marta D. Santos, Jeromos Vukov, Francisco C. Santos, Cláudia Sousa and Jorge M. Pacheco,
Folia Primatologica, Vol. 82 (6), pp.372-372 (2011).
[e-link]
Evolution of social diversity under the Distributed Prisoner's Dilemma
Flávio L. Pinheiro, João Moreira, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Int. J. of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
(accepted)
Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games
Francisco C. Santos, Marta D. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Nature Vol. 454, pp.213-216 (2008).
[e-link] Press (selected): [Público] [Ciência Hoje] [PhysOrg] [Science2.0]
Publications in Conference Proceedings:
The Universality of Peer-Influence in Social Networks
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, p. 149 (2015)
Collective Evolutionary Dynamics and Spatial Reciprocity under the N-Person Snowdrift Game
Marta D. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
in Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing System,
J. Suzuki and T. Nakano (Eds.): BIONETICS 2010, LNICST 87, pp.178-188, Springer (2012).
Social diversity favors the emergence of cooperative behavior
Francisco C. Santos, Marta D. Santos, Sven Van Segbroeck and Jorge M. Pacheco
Proceedings of the Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, B-paper No. 86 (2009).