Francisco Correia dos Santos is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (UL), and a researcher at INESC-ID.
He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, as a Marie Curie PhD Fellow at the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA). After his PhD, he became a FNRS senior researcher (Machine Learning Group, ULB, Belgium) and at FCT/NoVA. In Lisbon, he co-headed the Group of Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS) at INESC-ID, and the interdisciplinary group ATP.
His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, evolutionary biology, economics, and physics. He develops models and laboratory experiments dedicated to studying human collective behavior, exploring topics such as cooperation, dynamics in social networks, the evolution of social norms, governance of public goods and their institutions, and the impact of technology on these systems.
As a researcher, Francisco was honored with the Young Scientist Award for Socio-Econophysics of the German Physical Society, the CGD / University of Lisbon prize in Computer Science, and a Blue Sky award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, among other prizes.
As a professor, he was recognized with the 2022 IST Outstanding Teaching Award from IST's Pedagogic Council, and several IST Excellence in teaching awards, one for each year he has taught at IST, based on outstanding students' feedback evaluations.
He also served as Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), where he led various national initiatives in research careers, R&D projects, advanced training, and digital infrastructures and services.