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Biography

Flávio L. Pinheiro is an Assistant Professor in Data Science at Nova IMS. His research interests focus in understanding how the network structure of socio-economic systems impacts the strategic decisions of agents at different scales. At the macro-level, how does the structure of Economic and Innovation systems impacts the success of agents is constrained when they have to take actions over the elements that make up such systems. At the individual scale, how is the evolution of ideas, diseases, opinions, behaviors and knowledge affected by the social network they are part of. In the past, Flavio was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Media Lab, he holds a BSc and MSc from the University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal) and a Phd from the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal).

Scientific Publications

Pinheiro, F. L., Balland, P-A., Boschma, R., & Hartmann, D. (2025)

The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe. Regional Studies, 59(1), 1-16. Article 2106362. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2106362

Sturm, N. F., Candia, C., Damásio, B., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2025)

High earnings through firm influence: the role of hierarchical structures in public procurement. EPJ Data Science, 14, 1-20. Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00543-z

Borges, H. M., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2024)

How social rewiring preferences bridge polarized communities. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 180, 1-8. Article 114594. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.08088, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2024.114594

Ottersen, S. G., Pinheiro, F., & Bação, F. (2024)

Triplet extraction leveraging sentence transformers and dependency parsing. Array, 21(March), [100334]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.array.2023.100334

Pilatti, G., Pinheiro, F. L., & Montini, A. A. (2024)

Systematic Literature Review on Gig Economy: Power Dynamics, Worker Autonomy, and the Role of Social Networks. Administrative Sciences, 14(10), 1-28. Article 267. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14100267

Timbe, G., Pinheiro, F. L., Bam, W., Hartmann, D., & De Bruyne, K. (2024)

Is natural resource abundance a curse or an opportunity? Economic complexity, FDI, and industrial policies in Mozambique. Resources Policy, 98, 1-14. Article 105326. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4793284, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105326

Gonçalves-Sá, J., Pinheiro, F. (2024)

Societal Implications of Recommendation Systems: A Technical Perspective. In: Sousa Antunes, H., Freitas, P.M., Oliveira, A.L., Martins Pereira, C., Vaz de Sequeira, E., Barreto Xavier, L. (eds) Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 58. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41264-6_3

Vasconcelos, C., Damásio, B., Baltazar, L. G., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2024)

The data landscape in Portugal and opportunities for enhancing the TdC's audits of public procurement. In Strengthening Oversight of the Court of Auditors for Effective Public Procurement in Portugal: Digital Transformation and Data-driven Risk Assessments (pp. 76-89). (OECD Public Governance Reviews). OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/35aeab1e-en

Hartmann, D., Arata, A., Bezerra, M., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2023)

The network effects of NGOs on social capital and innovation among smallholder farmers: a case study in Peru. Annals Of Regional Science, 70(3), 633-658. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3312468, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-019-00944-9

Pilatti, G., Candia, C., Montini, A., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2023)

From Co-Location Patterns to an Informal Social Network of Gig Economy Workers. Applied Network Science, 8, 1-15. [77]. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2742628/v1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-023-00603-1

Rita, P., Vong, C., Pinheiro, F., & Mimoso, J. (2023)

A sentiment analysis of Michelin-starred restaurants. European Journal of Management and Business Economics, 32(3), 276-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJMBE-11-2021-0295

Scott, I., Neto, M. D. C., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2023)

Bringing trust and transparency to the opaque world of waste management with blockchain: a Polkadot parathread application. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 182(August), 1-17. [109347]. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3825072, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109347

Zúquete, M., Orghian, D., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2023)

A Moral Foundations Dictionary for the European Portuguese Language: The Case of Portuguese Parliamentary Debates. In J. Mikyška, C. de Mulatier, M. Paszynski, V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya, J. J. Dongarra, & P. M. Sloot (Eds.), Computational Science – ICCS 2023: 23rd  International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3–5, 2023, Proceedings, Part IV (Vol. Part. I, pp. 421–434). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10476). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35995-8_30

Geller, M., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2023)

Toxicity in Evolving Twitter Topics. In J. Mikyška, C. de Mulatier, M. Paszynski, V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya, J. J. Dongarra, & P. M. A. Sloot (Eds.), Computational Science: Computational Science – ICCS 2023 23rd  International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3–5, 2023, Proceedings, Part IV (pp. 40-54). Article Chapter 4 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14076). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36027-5_4

Pilatti, G., Pinheiro, F. L., & Montini, A. (2023)

Gig Economy and Social Network Analysis: Topology of Inferred Network. In H. Cherif, L. M. Rocha, S. Micciche, R. N. Mantegna, & C. Cherif (Eds.), Complex Networks and Their Applications XI: Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications: COMPLEX NETWORKS 2022 (Vol. 2, pp. 471-479). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 1078). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21131-7_37

Candia, C., Pulgar, J., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2022)

Interconnectedness in Education Systems. Cornell University (ArXiv). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.05624

Cardoso, B-H. F., Catela, E. Y. D. S., Viegas, G., Pinheiro, F. L., & Hartmann, D. (2024)

Did Industrial and Export Complexity Drive Regional Economic Growth in Brazil? PLoS ONE, 19(12), 1-19. Article e0313945. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.07469, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313945

Vasconcelos, V. V., Marquitti, F. M. D., Ong, T., McManus, L. C., Aguiar, M., Campos, A. B., Dutta, P. S., Jovanelly, K., Junquera, V., Kong, J., Krueger, E. H., Levin, S. A., Lao, W., Lu, M., Mittal, D., Pascual, M., Pinheiro, F. L., Rocha, J., Santos, F. P., ... Zhan, Q. (2023)

Rate-Induced Transitions in Networked Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring Dynamics and Management Implications Across Ecological, Social, and Socioecological Systems. (pp. 1-29). Cornell University (ArXiv). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.07449

Pinheiro, F. L., Hartmann, D., Boschma, R., & Hidalgo, C. A. (2022)

The time and frequency of unrelated diversification. Research Policy, 51(8), 1-24. [104323]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104323

Sarmento, P., Motta, M., Scott, I., Pinheiro, F. L., & De Castro Neto, M. (2022)

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on waste production behavior in Lisbon. Waste Management, 138(February), 189-198. [Advanced online publication on 7th  December 2021]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.12.002

Alpalhão, N., Sarmento, P., Pinheiro, F. L., Tremoceiro, J., & Neto, M. D. C. (2022)

Prediction and simulation of the risk of traffic accidents using neural networks and gradient boosting with an hybrid classification/regression modelling approach in urban context. In Livro de Resumos da Conferência do Projeto de Investigação Científica “Fatores de Transformação Urbana (DRIVIT-UP)” em conjunto com I Conferência sobre Ciência de Dados para Ciências Sociais e VI Conferência de Planeamento Regional e Urbano. [Abstract book from the Conference of the Scientific Research Project “Drivers of urban transformation (DRIVIT-UP)” a joitly event with I Conference on Data Science for the Social Sciences And VI Conference on Regional and Urban Planning] (pp. 52-55). UA Editora. https://doi.org/10.48528/pkzd-wz70

Duarte, C., Pinheiro, F., & Naranjo-Zolotov, M. (2022)

Students’ networks influence on academic performance: An exploratory study. In 2022 17th  Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI): proceedings (pp. 1-6) (CISTI 2022. 17th  Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, 22-25 June 2022, Madrid, Spain) . IEEE. ISBN: 978-9-8933-3436-2. https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820019

Lyra, M. S., Pinheiro, F. L., & Bacao, F. (2022)

Public Procurement Fraud Detection: A Review Using Network Analysis. In R. M. Benito, C. Cherifi, H. Cherifi, E. Moro, L. M. Rocha, & M. Sales-Pardo (Eds.), Complex Networks & Their Applications X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021 (Vol. 1) (Vol. I, pp. 116-129). (Studies in Computational Intelligence; Vol. 1015). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93409-5_11

Pinheiro, F. L., Balland, P-A., Boschma, R., & Hartmann, D. (2022)

The Dark Side of the Geography of Innovation. Relatedness, Complexity, and Regional Inequality in Europe. (pp. 1-46). (Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography; Vol. 22, No. 2). Utrecht University. https://peeg.wordpress.com/2022/01/18/22-02-the-dark-side-of-the-geography-of-innovation-relatedness-complexity-and-regional-inequality-in-europe/

Curado, A., Damásio, B., Encarnação, S., Candia, C., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2021)

Scaling behavior of public procurement activity. PLoS ONE, 16(12), 1-19. [e0260806]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260806

Hartmann, D., Ferraz, D., Bezerra, M., Pyka, A., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2021)

Comparing cars with apples? Identifying the appropriate benchmark countries for relative ecological pollution rankings and international learning. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 1-17. [779378]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.779378

Hartmann, D., Zagato, L., Gala, P., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2021)

Why did some countries catch-up, while others got stuck in the middle? Stages of productive sophistication and smart industrial policies. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 58, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2021.04.007

Lyra, M. D. S., Curado, A., Damásio, B., Bação, F., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2021)

Characterization of the Firm-Firm Public Procurement Co-Bidding Network from the State of Ceará (Brazil) Municipalities. Applied Network Science, 6, 1-10. [77]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-021-00418-y

Pinheiro, F. L., Pacheco, J. M., & Santos, F. C. (2021)

Stable leaders pave the way for cooperation under time-dependent exploration rates. Royal Society Open Science, 8(2), [200910]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200910

Waniek, M., Elbassioni, K., Pinheiro, F. L., Hidalgo, C. A., & Alshamsi, A. (2020)

Computational aspects of optimal strategic network diffusion. Theoretical Computer Science.[Advanced online publication on 31 january 2020]. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2020.01.027

Lima, F., Pinheiro, F. L., Silva, J. F., & Matos, P. (2020)

Foreign direct investment: using network analysis to understand the position of Portugal in a global FDI network. In Bridging measurement challenges and analytical needs of external statistics: evolution or revolution?: Proceedings of the IFC Conference on external statistics, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-18 February 2020 (pp. 1-16). (IFC Bulletin; No. 52). Bank of International Settlements. https://www.bis.org/ifc/publ/ifcb52.htm

Candia, C., Encarnação, S., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2019)

The higher education space: connecting degree programs from individuals’ choices. EPJ Data Science, 8(1), [39]. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0218-4

Hartmann, D., Bezerra, M., Lodolo, B., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2019)

International trade, development traps, and the core-periphery structure of income inequality. Economia. [Advanced online 19 December 2019]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econ.2019.09.001

Vasconcelos, V. V., Levin, S. A., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2019)

Consensus and polarization in competing complex contagion processes. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 16(155), [20190196]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0196