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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ Lisboa, Técnico. "Instituto Superior Técnico". Técnico Lisboa. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  2. ^ "Scientific Areas". INESC-ID. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  3. ^ "IDMEC | Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica". Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  4. ^ "Susana Vinga – INESC Brussels HUB". Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  5. ^ "BMC Bioinformatics". BioMed Central. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  6. ^ "Susana Vinga homepage". web.ist.utl.pt. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  7. ^ "OLISSIPO – Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon". Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  8. ^ "News – OLISSIPO". 2024-02-19. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  9. ^ "Susana Vinga". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  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.
  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). "August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". 7. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.7. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ Lisboa, Técnico (2017-11-13). "Cerimónia de Entrega de Prémios ULisboa'2017". Técnico Lisboa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  15. ^ mbcastro (2022-11-07). "Cerimónia de Entrega dos Prémios Científicos Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2022". www.ulisboa.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-01-18.


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