Miguel Fortuna
Research Scientist at Our computational biology lab harnesses evolution by engineering species interactions to help fight human diseases
Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Fortuna is a research scientist with a decade of experience at the interface of complex networks, data science, evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology, and computer science. He designs and implements mathematical models, simulations, and statistical analyses to tackle interdisciplinary questions that bridge ecology, evolution, sociology, genetics, biomedicine, and artificial life. Known as an ecologist-turned-network scientist, he approaches problems with unconventional thinking and synthesizes diverse data sources to reveal systemic patterns. Based in Cantagalo, Brazil, he blends rigorous theory with practical computational tooling, often translating biological intuition into networked, data-driven experiments.
10 years of coding experience
Cooperativa de Trabalho Idealismo Educacao e Informatica Ltda (Colégio Euclides da Cunha)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (20)
ontologies9
metadata9
ontology9
semantic-web9
bioinformatics9
owl9
rdf8
geneontology8
open-science8
foundry8
open-source5
journal4
creative-commons3
open-access3
mutate3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
miguelfortuna/avida_genbank
Apr 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
miguelfortuna/WebOfLife
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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