Dr. Carla M.A. Pinto is a Coordinating (Associate) Professor at the School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics, awarded in January 2004. Her primary research area is Mathematical Epidemiology, with a broader interest in mathematical modeling and its applications to public health policy.
Dr. Pinto has a strong background in Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcation Theory. Her previous research includes the analysis of Central Pattern Generators for animal and robotic locomotion, coupled cell networks, and neuron-like systems such as the Hodgkin-Huxley, FitzHugh-Nagumo, and Morris-Lecar equations.
She currently serves as Editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals and Chaos X, and as Associate Editor for Computational and Applied Mathematics (Springer) and the International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer), among other journals. Dr. Pinto is also a member of the editorial boards of Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, among others. She has chaired and organized numerous international conferences in Applied Mathematics.
Since 2017, Dr. Pinto has also been actively involved in Mathematics Education research, participating in several Erasmus+ projects. She has served as the Coordinator for MATH-DIGGER and DrIVE-MATH, and as Local Coordinator of other Erasmus+ projects at P.PORTO.
As of August 2022, she is the Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Lab at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.