Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- LÍLIA DE FÁTIMA GOMES PERFEITO
Citation names
- PERFEITO, LÍLIA
- Perfeito, Lilia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- B418-E116-244B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4844-8763
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=zbTSWjEAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
- Researcher Id
- AAE-1245-2020
- Scopus Author Id
- 18635216800
Email addresses
- lperfeito@lip.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Av. Gama Pinto, n.2, piso 3, 1649-003, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
- Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2008
Concluded
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Doutoramento em Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
"Dynamics of Adaptation in populations of E. coli" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado |
2004
Concluded
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Biologia Microbiana e Genética (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Dinâmica de Populações de Escherichia coli com elevada taxa de mutação" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/10/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal |
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal | ||
2019/01/01 - 2020/09/30 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal | ||
2014/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal | ||
2012/05/01 - 2013/12/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal | ||
2008/10/01 - 2012/04/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Universität zu Köln - Institute for Theoretical Physics, Germany |
Universität zu Köln - Institute for Theoretical Physics, Germany (...) |
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2004/10/01 - 2008/09/30 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal | ||
2003/09/01 - 2004/06/30 | Research Trainee (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/02/01 - 2020/07/31 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/02/01 - 2020 | Identifying and Reducing Antibiotic Under and Over Prescription
Sem referência (projeto piloto)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2013/01/01 - 2013/12/31 | The role of genomic instability in evolution
SFRH / BPD / 84223 / 2012
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/01/01 - 2010/12/31 | Fitness landscape of a molecular pathway
SFRH/BPD/43224/2008
Post-doc Fellow
Universität zu Köln - Institute for Theoretical Physics, Germany
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2004/10/01 - 2008/09/30 | Adaptation in E. coli
SFRH/BD/18161/2004
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/10/01 - Current | Fake News and Real People - Using Big Data to Understand Human Behaviour
Post-doc
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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European Research Council
Ongoing
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
UID/Multi/04555/2019
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biologicas, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2018/10/01 - 2018/12/31 | From diversity to efficiency - Uncovering how different strains adapt to the same environment and how we can direct evolution
towards more efficient microorganisms.
02/SAICT/2017
Principal investigator
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2013/06 - 2015/05 | Fitness effects of synonymous mutations
Researcher
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2014/04 - 2015/03 | How does chromosome structure affect the tempo and mode of adaptation?
Principal investigator
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2011/03 - 2014/02 | Consequences of genome instability to adaptation and speciation
Post-doc
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2008/10/01 - 2012/03/31 | Evolution of gene expression
Researcher
Universität zu Köln, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Concluded
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2008/03 - 2010/09 | Rate and effects of mutations in the protozoa Tetrahymena thermophila
Other
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2004/09/01 - 2006 | Population genetics of adaptation in E. coli
POCTI/BSE/46856/2002
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2014/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Genetic basis of evolvability in a model Eukaryote: How does chromosome structure affect the adaptation rate?
IF/00019/2013
Principal investigator
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Newspaper article |
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Report |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2022/10/27 | A method to infer diagnoses from prescription data | [3C] Cells, Computers & Clinics
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
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2021/07/30 | An evolutionary model for the spread of information on Twitter | IC2S2
ETH, Zurich (online, Switzerland)
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2021/07/08 | An evolutionary model for the spread of information on Twitter | Networks 2021
Indiana University Network Science Institute, (online)
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2020/12/02 | A popularity model for information spreading: Twitter as a case study | COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 - The 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications
(Madrid, Spain)
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2019/09/03 | Discourse vs. Voting: An Analysis of Polarization over 40 Years of the Portuguese Parliament | European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
ETH (Zurich, Switzerland)
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2016/04/16 | “The impact of genetic background on the evolutionary potential of populations” | First biological sciences annual meeting (BioSAM)
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2014/09/14 | New mutations seen through the eyes of natural selection | Workshop on Quantitative Evolutionary Biology
Nesin Foundation Mathematics Village (Sirinçe, Turkey)
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2014/07/14 | Major transitions in evolution | Inspirar Ciência - Workshop for highschool teachers
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
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2014/06/18 | Forces driving the evolution of genome structure | 566th WE-Heraeus-Seminar Mechanisms, Strategies and Evolution of Microbial Systems
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Bad Honnef, Germany)
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2014/02/21 | Forces driving the evolution of genome structure | CIBIO seminar Series
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos - CIBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
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2013/08/22 | The impact of gene architecture on the adaptation rate | XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2011/04/02 | The fitness landscape of a molecular pathway and a phenotypic approach to population genetics | Jacques Monod Conference: Theoretical and empirical advances in evolutionary genomics.
instituts des sciences biologiques (INSB) et écologie et environnement (INEE) du Centre national de la recherche scientifique
(CNRS) & l'Inserm (Roscoff, France)
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2011/01/24 | Fitness Landscape of a Metabolic Pathway | KITP Program: Microbial and Viral Evolution
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara, United States)
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2011 | Nonlinear Fitness Landscape of a Molecular Pathway | Mind the Gap 2011 - SFB 680 workshop funded by the Volkswagenstiftung
Universität zu Köln (Cologne, Germany)
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2010/12 | Nonlinear Fitness Landscape of a Molecular Pathway | Portuguese Meeting of Evolutionary Biology
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2022/01/01 - Current | The diffusion of information in social media – How much complexity do we need?
Supervisor of Pedro Duarte
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Mestrado em Engenharia Física e Tecnológica (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2014/09/01 - 2018/12/07 | Understanding Fitness from Molecular mechanisms – a step towards predicting evolution.
Supervisor of Diogo Passagem Santos
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
2013/09/01 - 2018/03/21 | The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the adaptative evolution
Co-supervisor of Dragan Stajic
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
2016/09/01 - 2017/12/12 | Characterization of the selective potential for the improvement of Cry toxins with nematicidal activity
Supervisor of Mariana Delgadinho
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
2014/09/01 - 2015/12/15 | Characterization of the selective potential for the improvement of Cry toxins with nematicidal activity
Supervisor of Ana Catarina Morais
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2014/09/01 - 2015/12/03 | Impact of chromossomal structure on the evolution of Schizosaccharomyces pombe undergoing Mutation Accumulation
Supervisor of Gustavo Eduardo
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/12/10 - 2019/12/12 | The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications: One of the largest international conferences
on complex networks with over 400 participants. I was part of the local organizing committee (2019/12/10 - 2019/12/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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2015/11/15 - 2015/12/21 | ENBE 2015 (Portuguese Meeting of Evolutionary Biology). I was part of the scientific committee which selected the abstracts
to be invited for oral presentations. (2015/12/21 - 2015/12/21)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2017/06/22 | On plasmids : studies of plasmid-host and plasmid-plasmid interactions
(Thesis) Main arguer
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João Gama (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2016/10/05 | Microbe Domestication and the Identification of the Wild Genetic Stock of Wine Yeasts
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Pedro Miguel Coelho de Almeida (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2016/01/22 | Tracking evolutionary paths in colonizing events temporal changes in life-history traits, microsatellites and inversions in
Drosophila subobscura
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Josiane Santos (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2015/09/14 | The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation : an integrated perspective
(Thesis) Arguer
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Inês Fragata (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2013/11/19 | Influência da densidade bacteriana na epistasia
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Luís Cardoso (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2013/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva | Secretária da Assembleia Geral |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2020/12/01 - 2020/12/03 | COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 - The 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications | Madrid (online) |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2017/12/26 - 2017/12/26 | Bom Dia Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2008 | Finalist for the Water Fitch prize |
2001 | Menção Honrosa
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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