Welcome! I am Jorge Carneiro, a theoretical biologist fascinated by biological individuation and organisation of living systems. Studying these, requires breadth rather than specialisation. I have modelled a pletora of biological systems, from molecules to cells to multicellular organisms. The languages of biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, immunology and evolution as well as those of statistics, mathematics, computer science and engineering, are not alien to me, after collaborating and publishing with colleagues across different fields.
I have two pet projects, nowadays. The first is recounting the history of Life on Earth from an organismal perspective to try to answer a simple but pregnant question: how come Life never got extinct in the last ~4x109 years? This project involves a kind of research nomadism, dwelling temporarily in labs with specific expertises. Currently, I am in the Bacterial Development Lab at ITQB NOVA trying to get my head around bacterial spore origin and biology.
The second perhaps more ambitious project is to try to fix or mitigate the rupture between (under)graduate education and the quantitative demands of the biological research and the world we live in. This effort occasionally takes me to give courses and lectures in different places, e.g. NOVA University Lisbon, Instituto Serrapilheira, Brazil, and UNAM, Mexico.
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You can reach me via [personal name].aka.[family name]@gmail.com or LinkedIn.