Professor Dr. Marcos Oliveira

Biography

Marcos Oliveira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a member of the AI & Behaviour group. He is also an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany. His research spans a wide range of topics published in international journals such as Nature Communications Physics and PLOS. He has received competitive grants including from UKRI/Innovate UK, focusing on Facebook Integrity & Impact Research. Marcos Oliveira's work addresses significant questions by combining large-scale behavioral data with interpretable computational models. His research bridges computer science with sociology and criminology, employing methods like network analysis and complex-systems approaches to study social dynamics in various contexts, including online environments and urban settings.

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