Dr. Leonardo N. Ferreira is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Big Data Institute in the University of Oxford. Leonardo holds a Ph.D. in computer science and computational mathematics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Germany) and the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Leonardo also worked as a visiting researcher at Northwestern University (US) and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His research involves data science, machine learning, and network science mainly applied to climate sciences, bioinformatics, and computational social sciences.