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Leadership

Lénia Mestrinho
Executive Director
Leid Zejnilovic
Academic Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Rodrigo Belo
Academic Co-Director & Full Professor

Resident Affiliated Faculty

Alessandro Gambetti
Assistant Researcher
André Trindade
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Daniela Schmitt
Assistant Professor
Irene Consiglio
Assistant Professor
João Miguel Baptista
Visiting Professor
Leid Zejnilovic
Assistant Professor
Lénia Mestrinho
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Michail Batikas
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Patricia Xufre
Chief Education Officer at DSKC & Assistant Professor
Pedro Gardete
Full Professor
Prana Narayanan
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Qiwei Han
Assistant Professor
Rodrigo Belo
Full Professor
Rongjiao Ji
Assistant Professor
Sreyaa Guha
Assistant Professor
Utku Serhatli
Assistant Professor
Yufei Shen
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

External Affiliated Faculty

Carlos Soares
Associate Professor at FEUP & Innovation Lead at Fraunhofer Portugal
Margarida Abreu Novais
Associate Lecturer at Griffith University
Marta Lopes
Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Advisory Board

Manuela Veloso
Herbert A. Simon University Professor on leave at J.P.Morgan AI Research
Pedro Santa Clara
Director 42 Lisboa
Rayid Ghani
Distinguished Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon University & Data Science for Social Good Director

Permanent Staff

Alice Amâncio
Project Manager
Bernardo Forbes Costa
Digital Economist
Bruna Riboldi
Project Manager
Catarina Mendo Dias
Project Coordinator
Cátia Cohen
Strategic Project Manager
Ian Choo
Blockchain Specialist
João Gama Oliveira
Complex Systems Specialist
João Rocha
Junior Data Consultant
Lara Baptista
Junior Consultant
Manon Boisselier
Junior Data Consultant
Miguel Matos
Web Software Engineer & Data Scientist
Paulo Marques
System Administrator
Qi Shi
Researcher
Rongjiao Ji
Data Scientist
Susana Lavado
Senior Data Scientist
Tiago Godinho
Blockchain Program Coordinator

Affiliated PhD Students

Anastasiia Smirnova
Phd Student
Ann-Sophie Hahn
Phd Student
Daramola Ayodeji Olufemi
Phd Student
Ricardo Silva
Phd Student
Sam Applebee
Phd Student

Volunteers

Angelina Suchkova
Data Analyst
Ari Kimelman
Data Analyst
Daniel Patraboy
Data Analyst
Jona Weishaupt
Data Analyst
Julia Gralka
Data Analyst
Leo Ebert Gómez
Data Analyst
Maria Leonor Trindade Hermenegildo
Data Analyst
Nicolas Yong Joon Lee
Data Analyst
Priyanshu Yadav
Data Analyst
Tiago Mendonça Alencar Barros
Data Analyst
Tomás Amorim e Sá
Data Analyst
Vasco do Carmo Santos Cardoso
Data Analyst

Alumni

Ana Godinho
Data Research Analyst
Ana Rasinhas
Data Analyst
Ana Velez Mendes
Data Research Analyst
André Arêde
Data Analyst
Andrew Bell
Data Scientist
Ângelo Figueiral
Junior Data Scientist
António Ferreira Marques
Data Analyst
Artemiy Shadrin
Data Analyst
Beatriz Luís Felisberto
Data Research Analyst
Ben Collier
Junior Data Scientist
Bernardo Martins
Data Analyst
Carlos Ferrufino
Data Analyst
Carlos Gomes
Data Scientist
Celina Kollwitz
Data Analyst
Claus Åne Sørbøe Solbakken
Data Analyst
Diogo Conceição
Data Research Analyst
Édi Ferreira
Associate Data Analyst at Outsystems
Eduardo Hidalgo
Data Scientist
Edwin Gall
Data Research Analyst
Fabio Nunziante Cesaro
Data Research Analyst
Farouq El-Abbass
Data Research Analyst
Federico Maria Brignoli
Data Research Analyst
Filipe Pereira
Nova SBE Master’s Student
Fynn Oldenburg
Data Research Analyst
Hannah Schwab
Data Research Analyst
Hao Rong
Data Scientist
Inês Marques
Data Research Analyst
Inês Pereira
Consultant at Deloitte Portugal
Inês Silva
Junior Data Consultant
Iñigo Martínez
Data Scientist
Jannis Fleer
Data Research Analyst
Joana Gonçalves
Junior Data Consultant
Joana Vassalo
Junior Data Consultant
João Gil Neto Ribeiro
Data Research Analyst
João Gonçalves
Data Analyst
João Pires
Data Research Analyst
Johannes Rahn
Data Analyst
Johannes Tafferner
Junior Data Scientist
Jonas Brambrink
Junior Data Consultant
Kathryn Cassibry
Partnerships and Fundraising Officer at mothers2mothers
Lígia Gomes
Data Research Analyst
Lorian Abazi
Data Research Analyst
Maarten de Winter
Communications Intern
Maríah Tapia
Junior Consultant
Maria Chaves
Junior Data Consultant
Maria Henriques
Junior Data Consultant
Maria Inês Berardo
Data Analyst
Mariana Brandão
Business Developer at UpHill Health
Marta Rosa Parra Rocha
Data Research Analyst
Marta Santos
Junior Data Consultant
Matheus Souza Machado
Data Research Analyst
Matilde Santini
Data Analyst
Matteo Matera
Data Research Analyst
Meeka Lenisa
Data Analyst
Miguel Santos Mateus
Junior Data Consultant
Monica Schirripa
Data Analyst
Nicholas Gorham
Data Analyst
Nicholas Sistovaris
Data Research Analyst
Niclas Frederic Sturm
Data Research Analyst
Nils Böhm
Data Analyst
Pascal Strewe
Data Analyst
Patrícia Macedo
Data Research Analyst
Pedro Machado
Data Research Analyst
Pedro Pais Penedos
Project Manager
Pete Andrews
Data Research Analyst
Rodrigo Rosa
Data Research Analyst
Rute Lopes
Data Research Analyst
Sofia Apolinário
Junior Data Consultant
Sofia Geraldo
Data Research Analyst
Sunniva Hermann
Data Research Analyst
Susana Viegas
Data Research Analyst
Tobias Tesing
Data Research Analyst
Thomas Dornigg
Data Research Analyst
Tomás Manuel Marques da Silva dos Santos Coelho
Data Analyst
Vincent Kohal
Data Research Analyst
Vlad Cristea
Data Research Analyst
Xiaomei Ji
Data Research Analyst
Weronika Dyczek
Data Research Analyst