Our work in the press

Our work has been covered by several national and international news outlets, including Scientific American, DW News, The Atlantic, and EurekAlert. Find some examples below.

SPAC wins ERC social impact grant to develop tool on online privacy and disinformation

Lisbon, 6th of September, the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Proof of Concept (PoC) grant to Joana Gonçalves de Sá to conduct the project Fake News Recommendations – an Auditing System of Differential Tracking and Search Engine Results (FARE_AUDIT). Joana Gonçalves de Sá is a researcher at LIP – Laboratory for Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, and the coordinator of the Social Physics and Complexity Lab – SPAC, that uses experimental and computational techniques to study behavior.

Fake News Investigation receives Grant of €1.5 million

Lisbon, 3rd of September, the European Research Council has awarded  a 1.5 million euros Starting Grant to Joana Gonçalves de Sá to conduct the research project – Fake News and Real People – Using Big Data to Understand Human Behaviour (FARE). Joana Gonçalves de Sá is an Associate Professor and coordinator of the research group on “Data Science and Policy” at NOVA School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), and uses experimental and computational techniques (“big data” and complex systems) to study the decision-making process.

Merck Family Foundation makes the largest donation ever to the Gulbenkian Institute of Science for Science Education in Africa

The pharmaceutical Merck, through the Merck Family Foundation (MFF), will support the Science for Development program of the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC) with a donation of about 350 thousand euros. This is the largest donation ever from the Merck Family Foundation and will be used to implement a new approach that promotes scientific teaching and life sciences research in the Portuguese Speaking African Countries (PALOP).