Scholar
Catia Pesquita
Google Scholar ID: 8nGYegMAAAAJ
LASIGE, Informática, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,493
H-index
28
i10-index
58
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published in top venues including IJCAI 2025, ECAI 2024, ISWC 2023, KR 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
- Key projects:
- - CancerScan (2025–2028): EiC Pathfinder project on patient-specific tumor digital twins (WP Leader, Team Leader)
- - KGELL (2025–2029): COST Action on integrating LLMs with Knowledge Graphs (Management Committee Member)
- - TrustAI4Sci (2024–2025): Google & FCT-funded project on trustworthy AI explanations for scientific discovery
- - KATY (2021–2025): H2020 project on AI-powered personalized cancer medicine (WP Co-leader, Team Leader)
- Developed tools and ontologies:
- - SPOc-KG: Semantic Knowledge Graph for Personalized Oncology
- - KGsim-benchmark: Benchmark for Biomedical KG-based semantic similarity
- - AML: Ontology matching system
- - Epidemiology Ontology
Background
- Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Lisbon, Researcher at LASIGE
- Vice-Director of LASIGE and leads the Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Line
- Multidisciplinary background in Biology and Computer Science
- Leads the LiSeDa Lab, conducting research at the intersection of AI and Data Science
- Focuses on AI for Science, integrating knowledge graphs with machine learning, and advancing explainable and trustworthy AI for life and health sciences
- Research areas include Knowledge Graphs, Explainable AI, Neurosymbolic AI, and AI for Science
- Former vice-president of Biodata.pt, promoting the valorization of Portuguese biological data
- Actively promotes computer and data science careers for young women
