Eva Navarro
Professor
Eva Navarro
Professor
Education
Eva Navarro, Ph.D., Polytechnics University of Catalonia (Spain); MSc, BEng, BSc, University of Alicante (Spain)
Bio
Eva is a scientist of international standing in hybrid dynamical systems, cyber-physical systems, network science, mathematical modelling, simulation, formal methods of computer science, symbolic artificial intelligence (AI), control engineering, complex systems, self-organisation, computational neuroscience, neuro-inspired computing, data science and collective intelligence.
Eva has developed her career in industry and academia in prestigious institutions in four different countries: the USA, the UK, México and Spain. She shadowed the footsteps of Alan Turing in Manchester, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal –the father of modern neuroscience– in Madrid. She is one of the world's experts in Turing's morphogenesis –having collaborated with Alan Turing’s last student.
She is Full Professor in Computing in the School of Interactive Games and Media and former Director of the School of Information (iSchool) within the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at RIT.
Before moving to the USA, she was a Reader in Data Science in the UK. A Reader is equivalent to a Full Professor without a Chair and is a research-oriented permanent tenured post for senior academics with an international reputation in research. Just as a reference, Alan Turing, the father of artificial intelligence and modern computer science, was a Reader. She also worked more than 16 years at the University of Manchester in the School of Computer Science, and later in the Spatial Policy Lab of the Manchester Urban Institute and the School of Environment, Education and Development.
Moreover, she is part of the core team of AI Mexico, which promotes AI education and its responsible adoption by industry, and TechnoLatinas. She is an expert of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab and member of the Science and Methodology Committee at the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). She was awarded the distinction of Distinguished Alumni Ambassador 2024 at University of Alicante. She is also a research affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at University of Cambridge. She is a co-founder of ACM-Women Europe and the womENcourage conference series and serves on the Advisory Council for Gender Music Tech. Her contributions have been recognised in Spain’s Guide to Women Leaders of the Business Ecosystem and the 2025