Our research projects have received funding from CNPq (including PQ Grants), MackPesquisa, FAPESP and CAPES. The group has significant academic activity, through effective collaborations, including with researchers from abroad, especially France and Chile, at the moment. Highlights include numerous internationally relevant publications, ongoing funding from multiple sources, new grants and guest talks. The group's researchers also regularly act as external examiners on boards in the country and abroad, as ad-hoc reviewers for funding agencies, and as reviewers of articles in numerous academic forums. In 2020 one of the members of the group was recognised by Plos Biology as 1% of the most influential researchers in the world; also, one of the group leaders was a recipient of the 2020 Wolfram Innovation Award for his work on cellular automata and, from 2016 to 2021, was elected chair of IFIP's working group on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (WG-1.5).
