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Portrait at Búzios in 2023.

Olá! My name is Eric Araújo, and currently, I hold the following positions:

Scholarship

Eric investigates the spread of opinions, sentiments, and behaviors in complex systems through multiagent modeling and simulations, offering insights into social dynamics in politics, cooperation, health, criminology, and religion.

Therefore, the work I develop is multidisciplinary, using computer science tools to solve problems in areas such as public security, the spread of fake news, promoting healthier lifestyles, etc.

You can download my PhD Thesis on the following link

Education

You can find more about me on my LinkTree.

Recent Updates:

  • A new paper was accepted by the Journal of Complex Systems. This work was developed by the master’s student Matheus Flausino and co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Angelica de Sousa da Mata. The paper is entitled Exploring the Link Between Urban Topology and Street Crime Using Complex Networks: A Case Study from Southeast Brazil. It can be accessed through this link.
  • A work in collaboration with Fiocruz (Brazil) will be presented as a poster during the INSNA Sunbelt 2025, to happen in Paris, France. The work is entitled Scientific Collaboration in Health and Life Sciences: A Study of Brazil’s Contributions and Partnerships.
  • I participated in the event “Algorithms, Democracy and Society: challenges and perspectives” on May 28th and 29th talking about education, AI and society (in Portuguese).
  • I presented a paper titled Modeling Introversion in the Classroom: An Agent-Based Approach at Autonomous Agents for Social Good 2025 held in Detroit on May 19, 2025. The paper is the result of a Senior Project developed by B.S. students Daniel Kwon and Jaden Brookens.
  • My abstract titled Behavioral Insights into Political Polarization in Christian Communities through Computational Modeling was accepted for an oral presentation at ASA 2025.
  • A paper entitled The use of agent-based modeling in the study of complex systems (in Portuguese only) was accepted by the Brazilian Journal of Physics Teaching. This is the result of the master’s studies of Clayton R. da Silva, in partnership with Prof. Angélica S. Mata.