Dr. Javier Borge-Holthoefer, currently a Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hamad bin Khalifa University, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) in 2011. Founded on interdisciplinary Physics, his research is focused on complex systems ranging from Cognitive Dynamics to Social Networks. Among other appointments, he taught at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics and at the Department of Psychology (both in URV). Before moving to Qatar in 2014, he was a member of the COSNET Lab and held a position as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), which belongs to the University of Zaragoza (Spain). With more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, his work has been published (among others) in the EPJ Data Science, Physical Review E, PLoS One, Scientific Reports or Europhysics Letters. Dr. Borge-Holthoefer has also contributed three chapters in different books around the problem of disease and information spreading on complex networks.
