Jorge Louçã obtained in 2000 a PhD in informatics from the Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is, since 2000, professor at the ISCTE-IUL Lisbon University Institute, where he teaches Programming Languages and Complex Systems Science. He founded the Doctoral Programmes in Complexity Sciences, joint academic program at ISCTE-IUL and the University of Lisbon. He developed his research at the laboratory LAMSADE - Laboratoire d’Analyse et Modélisation de Systèmes pour l’Aide à la Décision, Université Paris Dauphine, from October 1995 to Mars 1999, and LabMAg - Laboratory of Agent Modelling, University of Lisbon from Mars 1999 to September 2011. He presently develops his research at ISTAR – Information Sciences and Technologies and Architecture Research Center, at ISCTE-IUL. He participated in several European research projects. Jorge Louçã was member of the Council of the Complex Systems Society (CSS), and Vice-President of the Unesco UniTwin Complex Systems Digital Campus. He is the coordinator of The Observatorium research group, aiming to real-time monitoring of multi-level network structures for the study of knowledge generation and opinion dynamics on the Internet.