My name is David! I am passionate about social justice, sustainability, and civic participation.
I have been an activist for almost nine years now, with a recent focus on gender equality. From the challenges of AI, to epistemic decolonisation, there is hardly a topic I don't find interesting!
I currently work in scientific software development for a climate change programme at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. I have a background in Data Science and Cell and Molecular Biology.
I previously worked at Transparency International Portugal, an anticorruption non-governmental organisation.
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Working as part of the Scenario Services and Scientific Software team. Part of the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program.
Supervisor(s): Daniel Huppmann, PhD, Volkey Krey, PhD
Transparency International Portugal
Highlights:
"Millions against the clock": data visualisation dashboard and media campaign
highlighting bad practices on direct award public contracting for World Youth Day 2023 Lisbon (+33M
€ in
public spending)
Global Anti-Corruption Consortium": project focused on showcasing Portugal's role
in
enabling transnational corruption, by building a database of illicitly obtained assets, services,
entities, and people involved in the chain of events, with the ultimate goal of supporting asset
recovery
Supervisor(s): Karina Carvalho
Media Ecosystems Analysis Group
Highlights:
Running dataset comparisons
to detect key differences related to technical problems with database downloads for
different
time periods
Documenting the entire analysis process and producing data
visualisations to communicate results to supervisor
Integrating different data sources from the Media Cloud project to identify
problems with data integrity and availability
Supervisor(s): Fernando Bermejo, PhD
Social Physics and Complexity
Highlights:
Data integration by designing a personalised processing pipeline
Data extraction from online sources, via web scraping (using asynchronous
HTTP
requests) and API calls
Data transformation, involving cleaning, pre-processing, and enrichment,
for
future analysis
Data loading to an in-house database built for the purpose, supporting a
large
range of queries for analytics
Text data processing and analysis, using state-of-the-art NLP tools
Time series statistical analysis
Supervisor(s): Joana Gonçalves-Sá, PhD
Building a network of the core regulatory map of stemness markers in the epithelial to mesenchymal transition observed in cancer cells.
Supervisor(s): Claudine Chaouiya, PhD, Gianluca Selvaggio, PhD
Behaviour and Metabolism Lab
Care for Drosophila stock, selective breeding of specimens following fly pushing principles, running behavioural experiments using in-house developed setups.
Supervisor(s): Zita Carvalho-Santos, PhD
Master's in Data Science
Grade: 19/20 (A in ECTS grading system)
Bachelor's in Cell and Molecular Biology
Grade: 17/20 (A in ECTS grading system)
HeForShe Lisboa
Youth organisation for the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of communities. Daily management of team of around 40 people, organised into 7 departments, project management, event planning, partnership agreements, fundraising, etc.
Highlights:
Associação Anémona
Health organisation for the promotion of inclusive healthcare in the Portuguese National Health Service.
Highlights:
Participation in a pilot event facilitated by IGLYO (International Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer & Intersex Youth and Student Organisation) to review and discuss
Portugal's Universal Periodic Review in matters of LGBTQIA+ rights.
Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
National biology student federation working with university student groups to promote fair and equal access to higher education in biology, learning and extracurricular opportunities for students, and organising annual gatherings.
Núcleo de Biologia Celular e Molecular
Cell and molecular biology student society from FCT NOVA, developing on-campus activities, such as talks, workshops, job fairs.
NOVA School of Science and Technology
Student representative for the Cell and Molecular Biology class of 2016, responsible for cooperating with professors to establish test and exam schedules, reporting any students' concerns of faculty misdemeanour, and later, organise the school calendar and review proposals for new study cycles.
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