Lucas França, PhD

Lucas França, PhD

Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Sciences

Northumbria University

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. My research interests include Complex Systems, Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning. I have a BSc in physics, a MSc in Physics (Statistical Physics and Complex Systems), and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience.

Interests
  • Complex systems
  • Neuroscience
  • Machine learning
Education
  • PhD in Computational Neuroscience, 2020

    University College London

  • MSc in Physics (Statistical Physics and Complex Systems), 2015

    Federal University of Bahia

  • BSc in Physics, 2013

    Federal University of Bahia

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

This page features Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa as a background and also adopts a colour palette inspired by the same piece. Produced circa 1829–1833, this is one of my favourite pieces of art. I do appreciate the composition, as well as the fractal properties of the ‘Great Wave’ - a topic that I hold dearly, as you shall see…

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Skills

R
Python
Statistics
Photography

Recent Publications

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(2022). Effects of gestational age at birth on perinatal structural brain development in healthy term-born babies. Human Brain Mapping.

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(2022). Clinical, socio-demographic, and parental correlates of early autism traits. bioRxiv.

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(2022). Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity: impact of preterm birth and association with early childhood neurodevelopment. bioRxiv.

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(2021). A social network approach for the study of leprosy transmission beyond the household. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

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(2021). Effects of gestational age at birth on perinatal structural brain development in healthy term-born babies. bioRxiv.

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(2019). Multicenter validation of automated trajectories for selective laser amygdalohippocampectomy. Epilepsia.

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(2019). On multifractals: A non-linear study of actigraphy data. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.

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(2017). A novel scheme for the validation of an automated classification method for epileptic spikes by comparison with multiple observers. Clinical Neurophysiology.

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