News

  • [September/2023] ATP member, Fernando P. Santos, was a awarded a 5-year ERC Starting Grant.

  • [September/2023] ATP member, João Bastos Fonseca, finished his MSc in Computer Science Engineering.

  • [September/2023] ATP member, Alexandre Pires, finished his MSc in Computer Science Engineering.

  • [July/2023] ATP member, Carlos M. Garrido, finished his MSc in Physics.

  • [July/2019] ATP member, Marta Couto, finished her MSc in Physics.

  • [March/2018] ATP member, Fernando P. Santos, successfully defended his PhD thesis at Universidade de Lisboa, achieving the highest distinction!

  • [June/2017] ATP members, Pedro Mendes da Silva and Andreia Sofia Teixeira, were recently awarded PhD scholarship from FCT-Portugal to develop research@ATP.

  • [April/2017] ATP member, Francisco C. Santos, was awarded the 2017 Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics of the German Physical Society. This award recognizes outstanding original contributions to a better understanding of socio-economic systems.

  • [Fev/2017] ATP member, Vítor V. Vasconcelos, successfully defended his PhD thesis at Universidade do Minho, achieving the highest distinction!

  • [Mar/2016] ATP member, Flávio Pinheiro, successfully defended his PhD thesis at Universidade do Minho, achieving the highest distinction!

  • [April/2016] ATP member, Francisco C. Santos, was the recipient of the scientific award Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2016, an annual prize of the University of Lisbon awarding the merit of his scientific activity.

  • [Jan/2014] ATP member, Fernando P. Santos, was recently awarded a PhD scholarship from FCT to develop research@ATP on the evolution of social norms.

  • [Jan/2013] ATP member, Vítor Vasconcelos, has been awarded the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize “Stimulus to Research”, with a project entitled Many-body Physics and the Sustainability of the Planet

Selected Publications

  • A new electoral bottom-up model of institutional governance
    Carlos M. Garrido, Francisco C. Santos, Elias Fernández Domingos, Ana M. Nunes, Jorge M. Pacheco
    Nature Scientific Reports 15 (2025) 3865

  • Co-evolution of risk and cooperation in climate policies under wealth inequality
    Jorge M. Pacheco, Francisco C. Santos
    PNAS Nexus 3 (2024) pgae550

  • Evolution of a theory of mind
    Tom Lenaerts, Marco Saponara, Jorge M. Pacheco, Francisco C. Santos
    iScience 27 (2024) 108862

  • Prosocial preferences improve climate risk management in subsistence farming communities
    N Choquette-Levy, M Wildemeersch, FP Santos, SA. Levin, M Oppenheimer EU Weber
    Nature Sustainability 7 (3), 282-293

  • EGTtools: Evolutionary Game Dynamics in Python
    EF Domingos, FC Santos, T Lenaerts
    iScience 26, 106419

  • Adaptations to infer fitness interdependence promote the evolution of cooperation
    M Colnaghi, FP Santos, PAM Van Lange, D Balliet
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (50), e2312242120

  • Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning
    Sara Encarnação, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco, Juval Portugali
    Chapter 18 in "Handbook on cities and complexity" ISBN: 978 1 78990 011 8 (2021), pp 349-369

  • Dynamics of informal risk sharing in collective index insurance
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Simon A. Levin
    Nature Sustainability 4 (2021), 426-432

  • Multistage feedback-driven compartmental dynamics of hematopoiesis
    Nathaniel Mon Père, Tom Lenaerts, Jorge M. Pacheco, David Dingli
    iScience 24 (2021) 102326

  • Link recommendation algorithms and dynamics of polarization in online social networks
    FP Santos, Y Lelkes, SA Levin
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (50), e2102141118

  • The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity
    FP Santos, JM Pacheco, FC Santos
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 (1838), 20200291

  • Coalition-structured governance improves cooperation to provide public goods
    Vítor V. Vasconcelos, Phillip M. Hannam, Simon A. Levin, Jorge M. Pacheco
    Nature Scientific ReportsProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 33 (2019) 6146-6153

  • Social norm complexity and past reputations in the evolution of cooperation
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco
    Nature, vol. 555, pp. 242-245 (2018).

  • Social Norms of Cooperation in Small-Scale Societies
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco
    PLoS Computational Biology 12 (2016) e1004709378

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