Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

Francisco A. Rodrigues is a full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), specialising in complex systems and data science. He is currently Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. He is an editor of Chaos, Solitons Fractals (Elsevier), the Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier), the New Journal of Physics (IOP Publishing) and the Journal of Complex Networks. He is also a co-editor of Europhysics Letters. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Physics: Complexity (IOP Publishing). He has published over 150 papers in international scientific journals, which have received more than 10,000 citations (h-index 41). He served two terms as Chair of the Research Committee at ICMC, and supervises Master's and PhD students on the Graduate Programmes in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics (ICMC), Physics (IFSC) and Statistics (ICMC-UFSCar). He was a visiting professor at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) from 2018 to 2019, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He has also been a short-term visiting researcher at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (Austria). He has also held visiting professor positions at Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the University of Zaragoza. His teaching areas include complex networks, statistics, stochastic processes, machine learning, causality, and data science. He is the author of the book An Introduction to Multiplex Networks: Basic Formalism and Structural Properties, published by Springer in 2018. In 2023, he was included in Elsevier's list of the world's top 2 most influential scientists. Further details of his research can be found at: https://sites.icmc.usp.br/francisco (Source: Lattes Curriculum)