Marcos is an Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Communications. His research focuses on the social and spatial impact of digital technologies on urban living, citizen wellbeing and community engagement through collaborative and performance art projects. He holds a BA in Architecture and City Planning (University of Sao Paulo), BSc in Digital Media Design and Production (Letterkenny Institute of Technology), MSc in Interactive Digital Media (Trinity College Dublin) and a PhD in Media Studies (University of Melbourne). Marcos is Chair of the  European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Media, Cities and Spaces Section. In his book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation (Manchester University Press, 2021) he investigates the potential of performance art as a means of reflection on contemporary urban living and its assemblages of human and machine agency. Marcos was Co-PI on the PUDU C-19 project (in collaboration with Dublin City Council) that investigated the changing patterns of urban park usage in Dublin during the COVID-19 pandemic, PI on the Community Engagement Through Performance Art (CEPA) project funded by the Irish New Foundations 2022 award and DCU coordinator and partner on the Digital Media Network Doctoral Experience (Dimendx) project funded by the ECIU SMART-ER Seed Programme.