Biography:Susana Vinga

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Susana Vinga
Born
Lisbon, Portugal
Alma materITQB/Univ. Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico
AwardsOlimpíadas Portuguesas de Matemática (1989)

Young Research Award of the Technical University of Lisbon (2010)

Prémio Científico da Universidade de Lisboa/CGD in the area of Computer Science and Engineering (2017 and 2022)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Biology, Mathematics
InstitutionsINESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico
Websitehttps://sels.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Susana Vinga is currently associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico/Universidade de Lisboa (IST/ULisboa)[1] at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI) and the Dept. of Bioengineering (DBE). She is a Senior Researcher at INESC-ID[2] in the Information and Decision Support Systems lab. She received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (1999) and a PhD in Biology/Bioinformatics at ITQB/Univ. Nova de Lisboa (2005). Before this position, she was Principal Investigator (Investigador FCT) at IDMEC.[3] Susana was part of the Board of Directors at INESC-ID between 2021 and 2023[4] and is a Senior Editorial Board Member of BMC Bioinformatics, a top journal in Mathematical and Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, and Genes.[5]

She has successfully coordinated as Principal Investigator several national projects and participated in several national and European projects as a team member and work package leader in the areas of Biotechnology and Computational Biology.[6] Since January 2021, she is the PI of the European H2020 Twinning project OLISSIPO - Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon, which aims to strengthen INESC-ID/IST research profile in Computational Biology.[7] By promoting several training activities in this area, OLISSIPO contributed to leverage the skills of Early-Stage Researchers in Portugal and around Europe.[8]

Publications

She has published in high-impact journals, achieving a Google h-index=29 with more than 4355 citations.[9] Among main achievements in the development of methods for Genomics, she coined the area of alignment-free biological sequence analysis and comparison in a review, which is one of the most cited paper in Portugal in Computer Science.[10] Susana wrote a book chapter on Biological sequence analysis by vector-valued functions.[11]

In 2021, she integrated the Stanford’s list of the World’s top 2% most-cited researchers in 2021 via Elsevier.[12] The same achievement was repeated in 2023.[13]

Awards

In 2010, she was granted the Young Research Award of the Technical University of Lisbon, and in 2017[14] and 2022,[15] she was awarded the Scientific Award from Universidade de Lisboa/CGD in the area of Computer Science and Engineering for the impact of her publications.

References

  1. ↑ Lisboa, Técnico. "Instituto Superior Técnico" (in en-US). https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/. 
  2. ↑ "Scientific Areas" (in en-US). https://www.inesc-id.pt/research-areas/. 
  3. ↑ "IDMEC | Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica" (in en-US). https://www.idmec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/. 
  4. ↑ "Susana Vinga – INESC Brussels HUB" (in en-US). https://hub.inesc.pt/susana-vinga/. 
  5. ↑ "BMC Bioinformatics" (in en). https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board. 
  6. ↑ "Susana Vinga homepage". https://web.ist.utl.pt/susanavinga/. 
  7. ↑ "OLISSIPO – Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon" (in en-US). https://olissipo.inesc-id.pt/. 
  8. ↑ "News – OLISSIPO" (in en-US). 2024-02-19. https://olissipo.inesc-id.pt/news/. 
  9. ↑ "Susana Vinga". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tqCfgygAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  10. ↑ Vinga S, Almeida J (March 2003). "Alignment-free sequence comparison-a review". Bioinformatics. 19 (4): 513–523. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btg005. PMID 12611807.
  11. ↑ Vinga, Susana; Almeida, Jonas (2003-03-01). "Alignment-free sequence comparison—a review". Bioinformatics 19 (4): 513–523. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btg005. ISSN 1367-4811. PMID 12611807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btg005. 
  12. ↑ Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository, V4, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.4
  13. ↑ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2024-09-16). "Bibliometrics" (in en). August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". 7. Elsevier Data Repository. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.7. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7. 
  14. ↑ Lisboa, Técnico (2017-11-13). "Cerimónia de Entrega de Prémios ULisboa'2017" (in pt-PT). https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/eventos/cerimonia-de-entrega-de-premios-ulisboa2017/. 
  15. ↑ mbcastro (2022-11-07). "Cerimónia de Entrega dos Prémios Científicos Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2022" (in pt-pt). https://www.ulisboa.pt/evento/cerimonia-de-entrega-dos-premios-cientificos-universidade-de-lisboacaixa-geral-de-depositos-3. 





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