Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

Pedro J. A. Neves graduated in Biology, majoring in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology in 2020 from the Faculdade de Ciências of Universidade de Lisboa. He completed his master’s degree in Cognitive Science in 2023, a cross-faculty course at Universidade de Lisboa. His skills include live animal handling (arthropods, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and mammals) in the laboratory, data analysis with Excel and Python Pandas, and programming with Python and MATLAB.
During his masters he developed a thesis project titled “Modelling Cognitive Offload and its Different Purposes” supervised by Prof. Luís Correia and Prof. Pedro Albuquerque. In the scope of this project, he gained experience developing neural network robotic controllers in Python, virtual agent and environment construction in Webots and simulation with both Webots and Netlogo. He was a junior speaker at the scientific conference “Interacting Agents in Natural and Artificial Environments” and was involved as co-organizer of two conferences.
His research interests are in artificial life, self-organization, cognitive offload, machine learning, predictive processing and phenomenology. He has a C1 level English certificate from Cambridge English Language Assessment, Part of the University of Cambridge.