Henrique João Machado Borges

Biography

Henrique is a PhD student in Network Science working under Prof. Giovanni Petri in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London.

His research interests lie at the intersection of network science, statistical physics, data science, and dynamical systems. By combining empirical methods (designing laboratory experiments and data analysis of both experiments and real-life data) with theoretical approaches (analytical and computational modeling of multi-agent systems), he aims to explore the emergent properties of complex systems. In his PhD project, he seeks to understand the origin and impact of group interactions on coordination, communication, and decision-making.

Previously, Henrique received a BSc and MSc in Physics/Physics Engineering in 2021 and 2023, from Instituto Superior Técnico. During his Master Thesis, he focused on studying how social networks affect the dynamical processes underlying the diffusion of information, opinions and behaviors. He tried to understand how individual rewiring preferences bridge initially weakly connected communities and how likely it is for them to reach a consensus, in a context of complex information diffusion.