Marco Bastos

Dr. Marco Bastos serves as a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at City St George's, University of London within the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, and concurrently holds the Ad Astra Fellowship at University College Dublin's School of Information and Communication Studies. Previously, he held research positions at the University of Sao Paulo, University of California Davis, and Duke University, where he maintains an affiliate role with the Duke Network Analysis Center.

His research investigates sociological aspects of digital media through the lens of online-offline social network interplay, integrating communication theory with computational social science methodologies. He develops open-source analytical tools publicly accessible via CRAN and GitHub, emphasizing reproducible research in digital sociology.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Ad Astra Fellow (University College Dublin)

While the text does not specify graduate student supervision or active research grants, his extensive research background and public code repositories indicate ongoing scholarly mentorship and collaborative project leadership.

He actively contributes to the Duke Network Analysis Center and promotes open science through publicly shared research infrastructure on GitHub and CRAN.