talks


  • Invited talk, Climate action and cooperation dynamics in an uncertain world, Santa Fe Institute, Jan. 22, 2020, Santa Fe, USA
  • Invited talk. Acção climática num mundo incerto: uma perspectiva evolutiva, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dec. 17, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Invited talk,  Climate action in an uncertain world, Conference on Data and Network Science for social good, Dec. 9, 2019, NOVA-SBE, Carcavelos, Portugal
  • Invited talk, The climate action game: Cooperation and self-organization in an uncertain world, Departament of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Nov. 28, 2019, Porto, Portugal.
  • Invited talk, Climate action and cooperation under uncertainty, 11th Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications, Nov. 7-9, ISEG, Lisbon, 2019.
  • Invited talk, Evolutionary games for governance, 18th AESOP Meeting on Planning & Complexity, Games for Cities: Building synergies between games, complexity, simulation, planning and design, NOVA-FCSH, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal (Nov. 7-8, 2019).
  • Invited lecture, The origins of cooperation: from cells to societies, NOVA School of Business and Economics, SBE, Carcavelos, Lisboa (Nov. 4, 2019)
  • Invited talk, The ecology of Human cooperation: From social norms to climate action, CIBIO-InBIO, Theoretical Ecology and Biodiversity modelling group, Univ. Porto and ISA, Universidade de Lisboa, School of Agriculture (ISA), University of Lisbon. Oct. 17.
  • Invited talk, A Microbiologia encontra a Computação, International Microorganism Day, Session on Microorganisms and the Society, IST, U Lisboa, Sept. 17.
  • Keynote talk, Climate action and cooperation in an uncetain world, INForum 2019, Simposio de Informática, 05 and 06 September, 2019, Guimarães, Portugal
  • Invited talk Evolution of cooperation and the logic of human social norms, The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 29th July - 2nd August 2019, special session on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Invited talk, Computação Científica e as Origens da Cooperação, Academia de Verão de Aprendizagem e Olimpíadas Científicas, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, July 2019
  • Invited talk, Cooperação e policentrismo em problemas globais: Uma perspectiva computacional, Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal 2019, Painel: Paz, Justiça e Instituições Eficazes, Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal, July 9, 2019.
  • Invited talk, Climate action in an uncertain world, 19th Arrabida meeting on Complexity Sciences.
  • Invited talk A multiagent systems look at environmental governance, Google Deepmind, Paris, June 2019.
  • Invited talk, The complexity of human social norms, Google Deepmind, Paris, June 2019.
  • Invited talk, Self-organization and the complexity of human cooperation, Vivarium Festival. Creating Concepts, Following Rules: An Unlikely Dialogue Between Deleuze and Wittgenstein. University of Porto, March 2019. (link)
  • Invited talk, Inteligência Artificial, Cooperação e Robótica Social, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, March 2019.
  • Invited talk, Environmental governance and cooperation in an uncertain world, IGC-ISI workshop, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, March 2019.
  • Invited lecture, An introduction to complex networks for data scientists, DELix - Lisbon Winter School on Data Science and Engineering, January 2019.
  • Invited Speaker, Social norm complexity and the origins of cooperation, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2018.
  • Invited Speaker, Engineering Cooperation, Advisory Board of Integrated Governance Forum - GovInt, June 2018.
  • Keynote Speaker, Linking individual and collective behavior in adaptive social networks, GAME-NET Workshop, part of the International Conference on Complex Networks 2018 (NetSci 2018), Paris, France, June, 2018.
  • Invited Lecture, Cooperation dynamics: from cells to societies, Complexity Science Workshop 2018, Computer Science Departament of ISCTE-UL, Lisbon, Portugal, June 6, 2018.
  • Distinguished Lecture, Human Cooperation and the Complexity of Moral Codes, Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series, Université Libre de Bruxelles, May, 2018.
  • invited talk, Social norm complexity and human cooperation, Google DeepMind, London, UK, March, 2018.
  • invited lecture, Algorithms of selfishness, THOR seminar series on Challenges in Algorithms and Complexity, INESC-ID, Lisboa, Portugal, June, 2017.
  • invited (high-school) talk, Da Cooperação, à Engenharia Informatica, Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria, Lisboa, Portugal, April 3, 2017.
  • prize lecture / Keynote lecture, Climate Change and Global Governance in an Uncertain World, Prize lecture associted with the 2017 Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics of the German Physical Society (DPG). This award recognizes outstanding original contributions to a better understanding of socio-economic systems. YSA Session: Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics 2017, SOE division, DPG spring meeting, Mar 20, 2017, Dresden, Germany
  • invited lecture, Environmental governance and cooperation in an uncertain world, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Mar 3, 2017, Liverpool UK.
  • invited (high-school) talk, Cooperating for a common good, Project Odysseus II public session, Feb 17, 2017, Liceu de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal.
  • invited lecture, Why we Cooperate? Collective dynamics, from cells to societies, SISE IST-Deloitte seminars, Instituto Superior Técnico, Jan 2017, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • keynote speaker, Climate Change and Global Governance in an Uncertain World, Keynote lecture, Satellite session on Evolutionary Game Theory: from Biology to Social Systems , Conference on Complex Systems (CCS), Amsterdam, 20th of September, 2016.
  • keynote speaker, Cooperation Dynamics of Polycentric Climate Governance, Keynote lecture, 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE XV, Mexico, July, 2016.
  • keynote speaker, Evolutionary dynamics of collective action, 1st International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution, a satellite Workshop at the 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE XV, Mexico, July, 2016.
  • keynote speaker, Governance and the evolution of collective action, School on Physics Applications in Biology, IFT-UNESP, S. Paulo, Brazil, Jan. 2016.
  • invited talk, Why we cooperate? Linking Individual to Collective Behaviors in Complex Networks, Porto Winter School on Graph Analytics and Applications, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Dec. 2015.
  • invited talk, Cooperation Dynamics of Polycentric Climate Governance, Workshop on Bottom-up evolution of cooperation: linking local and global environmental commons, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK, 20-30 Oct 2015.
  • invited talk, Climate Change and Global Governance in an Uncertain World, Cycle of Seminars Matemática Aberta, Universidade Aberta, 1st April, 2015, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • invited talk, Cooperando por um bem comum, 12° Encontro para a Promoção da Saúde na Escola, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Sintra, Portugal (March, 2015).
  • invited talk, Climate Change Governance and Cooperation Dynamics in an Uncertain World, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, December 2014.
  • invited high-school talk, As origens da cooperação, Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias, Semana da Ciencia e Tecnologia, Cacém, Nov. 2014, Portugal.
  • invited talk, The evolution of collective Action and climate governance, Workshop on Behavior, Cognition and Evolution: From Non-Human Primates to Homo sapiens, University of Lisbon, July 2014, Portugal.
  • pleanary talk, Climate Policy: Cooperation Dynamics in an Uncertain World Fifth Workshop Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences | DSABNS 10-12 Feb. 2014, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
  • invited talk, Diversity, peer-influence and the evolution of cooperation, Workshop on Coupled Cell Networks and Dynamics, University of Porto, Feb. 2014, Portugal.
  • invited talk, Dos átomos sociais á evolução do bem e do mal, Liceu Camoes, Lisboa, Portugal (Jan. 2014).
  • invited talk, Cooperando por um bem comum, Semana Cultural da Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias, Semana da Ciencia e Tecnologia, Cacém, Portugal (Nov. 2013).
  • keynote speaker, Climate Policy: Cooperation dynamics in an Uncertain World, Simposio Complejidad y Multidisciplina: El Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3) de la UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UMAM), Mexico City (November, 2013).
  • invited seminar, Climate Policy: How to Cooperate in an Uncertain World, Complex Systems Simulation Seminar Series (CS4), Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICCS), University of Southampton (Southampton, UK, June 2013).
  • invited seminar, Climate policy and cooperation dynamics under uncertainity, Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (DI,FCUL/UL), April 2013.
  • invited talk, Os átomos sociais e evolução do bem e do mal, Semana Cultural da Escola Secundária D. João II: Um Só Mundo, Estratégias de Cooperação, Setubal, Portugal. (Fev, 2013).
  • invited talk, Behavioral dynamics under climate change dilemmas, ESF workshop on Coordination and Disagreement across Perspectives and 8th graduate workshop in Analytic Philosophy, Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisbon, Portugal (12th September, 2012).
  • invited talk/course, Modeling of social and biological networks 5th Escuela Argentina de Matemática y Biología (BIOMAT 2012), La Falda, Cordoba, Argentina (3 days course, August 2012).
  • invited talk, Dynamics of Fairness and Cooperation in Repeated Group Interactions, Centro de Física do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal (July, 2012).
  • invited talk, Cooperando por um bem comum, 10° Encontro para a Promoção da Saúde na Escola, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Sintra, Portugal (March, 2012).
  • invited talk, Os átomos sociais e evolução do bem e do mal, Escola Sec. Padre Alberto Neto, Queluz, Portugal (March, 2012).
  • seminar, Behavioral dynamics under climate change dilemmas GAIPS/INESC-ID, IST Taguspark, Porto Salvo, Portugal (Fev, 2012).
  • seminar, Coordinating towards a common good, DMIR/INESC-ID, IST Alameda, Lisboa, Portugal (Fev, 2012).
  • plenary lecture, An evolutionary dynamics approach to global warming, 2012 Workshop Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences (DSABNS) (Lisbon, Portugal, Feb 8-12, 2012).
  • invited talk, Por que cooperamos? Dos Átomos sociais á Física do Bem e do Mal, Escola Secundária Ferreira Dias, Cacém, Portugal (28th Nov, 2011).
  • invited talk, Why we cooperate? Internationa conference, "All About Science: Philosophy, History, Sociology & Communications", Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (21-23 Nov, 2011).
  • invited lecture, Games of cooperation, De Kepler aos Fractais 2011 series, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Oct, 2011).
  • invited talk, Evolutionary dynamics of Collective Action: an evolutionary dynamics approach to global warming, ESF workshop on Philosophy of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, September 2011).
  • contributed talk, Risk of collective failure provides an escape from the tragedy of the commons, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) 2011 - European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Paris, August 2011).
  • contributed talk, The co-evolution of signaling and cooperation, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) 2011 - European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Paris, August 2011).
  • invited talk, A percepção individual do risco e o problema do aquecimento global - Portugal's Climate Change Commission (June 2011).
  • invited course, Why we cooperate?, Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal (May 2011).
  • invited talk, Cancer Games: Cancer phenotype as the outcome of an evolutionary game between normal and malignant cells, Kepler Prize Workshop of the European Academy of Sciences on Complex Living Systems, Heidelberg, Germany (May, 2011).
  • keynote speaker & invited course, Evolutionary dynamics of cooperative behavior, BIOMAT/IMPA 2011, Iguazu Falls, Brazil 2011.
  • keynote speaker, Dos Átomos sociais á Física do Bem e do Mal, 50th Aniversary of ESFD, Escola Secundaria Ferreira Dias, Cacém, Portugal, November 2010.
  • invited talk, The role of diversity in the emergence of cooperation, European Conference in Complex Systems 2010 (ECCS'10) and SCNET-2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2010
  • invited talk, Games of cooperation: Coordinating towards a common good, 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM'10) and Symposium on Mathematical Methods in Biophysics and Genomics, Rhodes, Greece, September 2010.
  • invited talk, The role of diversity in the emergence of cooperation, European Conference in Complex Systems 2010 (ECCS'10) and SCNET-2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2010.
  • invited talk, Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation, Cuarta Escuela Argentina de Matematica y Biologia, La Falda, Cordoba, Argentina, August 2010.
  • contributed talk, Behavioral diversity in adaptive social networks, SMB 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology & 10th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology - BIOMAT 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2010..
  • keynote/invited talk, Social diversity and the evolution of cooperative behavior, BIFI 2010, IV International Conference on Networks: A framework for cross disciplinary applications, Zaragoza, Spain, Feb 2010. (program)
  • invited talk, Collective dynamics of cooperation, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, January 2010.
  • invited talk, Coordinating towards a common good, ATP-MPI workshop, Lisbon, 2009.
  • invited talk, Dinâmica evolutiva da acção colectiva, Departamento de Informática & CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal, July, 2009).
  • contributed talk, Evolutionary dynamics of collective action: Social diversity and the evolution of cooperation., International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, CCSS-2009, ETH Zurich (Switzerland, June, 2009)
  • contributed talk, Social diversity and the evolution of cooperation., Workshop on statistical mechanics of game theory, Mariehamn, Finland, 2009. (May, 2009).
  • invited talk, Physics meets sociology: Dynamics of social networks and human behavior. Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles,Belgium (May, 2009).
  • invited talk, Evolutionary dynamics of collective action. European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (Feb, 2009).
  • seminar, Open lecture on Evolutionary game theory. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Feb, 2009).
  • contributed talk, Social diversity promotes cooperation in public goods games. American Mathematical Society / Sociedade Brasileira de Matemética First Joint Meeting, June 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • contributed talk, Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007, Dresden, Germany (October, 2007).
  • contributed talk, A multi-level selection model for the emergence of social norms. Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), Lisbon, Portugal (September, 2007).
    • contributed talk, Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties. International Conference on Network Science, NetSci 2007, New York Hall of Science, NYC, USA (May, 2007).
    • contributed talk, A multi-level selection model for the emergence of social norms. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Anual Meeting 2007 (Section: Physics of Socio-economic Systems), Regensburg, Germany (March, 2007).
    • invited talk, Evolution of cooperation in heterogeneous structured populations. Amorph Group, University of Sheffield, UK.(Jan, 2007).
    • invited talk, A multi-level selection model for the emergence of social norms. Presented at the BIRS Evolutionary dynamics workshop, Banff, Canada.(Jun, 2006).
    • contributed talk, Emergence of Cooperation in Heterogeneous Structured Populations. Presented at the 10th Artificial Life Conference, Bloomington, USA.(Jun, 2006).
    • seminar, How Scale-free Type-based Networks Emerge from Instance-based Dynamics. Seminar series of the Machine Learning Group, MLG/ULB, Brussels, Belgium.(Nov, 2005).
    • seminar, Biological networks and graphs: Beyond the gene duplication model. Seminar presented at the Centre de Physique non linéaire et Mécanique statistique (Cenoli/ULB) Brussels, Belgium.(Set, 2005).
    • seminar, Beyond the gene duplication model. Seminar presented at IRIBHM/ULB, Brussels, Belgium.(Set, 2005).
    • seminar, The role of the network of contacts in the evolution of cooperation. Seminar presented at IRIDIA (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.(November, 2004).