Mafalda Santos
Research Associate Digital Strategy & Innovation
Ireland
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Top SchoolMafalda Santos is a software engineer and digital transformation strategist with eight years’ experience delivering data-driven solutions across academia, EU innovation programmes, and industry in Ireland. She combines expertise in AI, blockchain, and data analytics with a background in biomathematics and sustainable entrepreneurship to design trusted, decentralised systems and education programmes. At the University of Galway she builds challenge-based, sustainability-focused curricula that connect students, researchers and industry while operationalising digital adoption and innovation. Mafalda’s research emphasizes how decentralised architectures can improve governance and resilience, and she has led cross-sector partnerships to scale impact-focused digital initiatives. Unusually for a technologist, her academic path spans physics, computational biology and regenerative finance, giving her a multidisciplinary lens on building future-ready, inclusive ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de LisboaPost-Certificate, Blockchain, Post-Certificate, Blockchain at Galway-Mayo Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Science, Bachelor's degree, Science at DITMSc AgInnovation, MSc AgInnovation at National University of Ireland, GalwayReFi Talents, ReFi Talents at Frankfurt School of Finance & ManagementPost-graduate certificate, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Post-graduate certificate, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at University College CorkPost-graduate certificate, Artificial Intelligence, Post-graduate certificate, Artificial Intelligence at Dublin City University
Github Skills (3)
react3
css3
javascript3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
diogoalex01/FEUP-LPOO
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:14 commits in 21 days
diogoalex01/FEUP-PROG
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Project 2 of PROG, a 1st year - 2nd semester curricular unit in FEUP
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 21 days
feupreact2nd-year1st-yearcss
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