recent honours & awards

• 2013-2020 
  Eight Instituto Superior Técnico / University of Lisbon Excellence in teaching awards (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,  2019 and 2020) recognizing outstanding students' feedback evaluations.
• 2018 
  The article "Engineering Pro-Sociality with Autonomous Agents" (co-authored with Ana Paiva and Fernando Santos) was selected as the best blue sky paper at the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), February 2-7, 2018 in New Orleans.
• 2017 
  Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics of the German Physical Society (DPG), recognizing "outstanding original contributions to the development of a better understanding of socio-economic problems".
• 2017 
  Elected member of the youth section (SJC, Instituto de Altos Estudos) of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa).
• 2017
  The manuscript entitled "Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Dilemmas in Structured Populations" (co-authored with J.M. Pacheco and T. Lenaerts) was selected by Google as one of the ten 2006 Classics in Game Theory and Decision Science.
• 2016 
  CDG/UL (Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depositos) scientific award from the U. Lisbon, recognizing the merit of scientific activity and the publication of articles in journals of recognized quality.
• 2016
  The paper entitled "Multiplayer ultimatum game in populations of autonomous agents" (co-authored with FP Santos, JM Pacheco, FS Melo, A Paiva) was selected as the best paper of ALA 2016, Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop, at the Int. Conf. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016, Singapore).
• 2015
  Academic tenure as Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnio, University of Lisbon, Portugal.