Susana Vinga
Susana Vinga is currently associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico/Universidade de Lisboa at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering and the Dept. of Bioengineering. She is a Senior Researcher at INESC-ID in the Information and Decision Support Systems lab. She received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and a PhD in Biology/Bioinformatics at ITQB/Univ. Nova de Lisboa. Before this position, she was Principal Investigator at IDMEC. Susana was part of the Board of Directors at INESC-ID between 2021 and 2023 and is a Senior Editorial Board Member of BMC Bioinformatics, a top journal in Mathematical and Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, and Genes.
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. 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. By promoting several training activities in this area, OLISSIPO contributed to leverage the skills of Early-Stage Researchers in Portugal and around Europe.
Publications
She has published in high-impact journals, achieving a Google h-index=29 with more than 4355 citations. 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. Susana wrote a book chapter on Biological sequence analysis by vector-valued functions.In 2021, she integrated the Stanford’s list of the World’s top 2% most-cited researchers in 2021 via Elsevier. The same achievement was repeated in 2023.