I am an Associate Professor (Teaching and Research) in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London, where I lead the BRAN Lab. Additionally, I am a Visiting Academic at the Kent and Medway Medical School, and an Academic Honorary Researcher at the UK Health Security Agency. I am also a member of the Executive Committee of the Network Science Society, the Vice President of the Women in Network Science Society.
Previously I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon and a Researcher at LASIGE, being the Co-Coordinator of the PhD Program in Complexity Sciences. Before that I was a Research Scientist at Hospital da Luz Learning Health, and a Collaborator at INESC-ID. Between August 2019 and December 2020 I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Indiana University Bloomington, and a Fellow at IU Network Science Institute (IUNI), Indiana, United States.
I’ve also been a member of the council and EC of the Complex Systems Society (2019-2025), and the former Chair of the advisory board of yrCSS (2020-2021).
I have a PhD (July, 2019) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
My research interests are:
- Graph Theory / Algorithms on Graphs
- Network Science / Complex Systems
- Computational Cognitive / Social Sciences
- Computational Medicine/ Epidemiology / Biology
- Network Neuroscience
- Human Behavior / Evolutionary Game Theory
My research work is in the intersection of Network Science and Machine Learning, focusing on developing measures, computational models, and simulation frameworks to better understand the structure and dynamics of complex systems in the domains mentioned above. I’m particularly interested in studying collective behavior, neurodegenerative/neuropsychiatric disorders and how affective (positive, negative and neutral) relationships shape our environment and vice-versa.
(photo by Nicole Samay)
Andreia Sofia Teixeira 