Former Members
Former Researchers
Angelina Peñaranda
Associate Professor at the department of Physics
Anna Gras
Associate Professor at the department of Agri-food Engineering and Biothecnology
Antoni Giró
Full Professor at the department of Physics
Former students and postdocs
Post-docs
- Francesc Font: One year post-doctoral research stay in the group (2017-2018). Currently at the Center for Mathematical Research (CRM).
- Carlos A Lugo-Vélez: Three year postdoctoral research stay in the group (2009-2012). Curreltly at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
PhD students
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Pablo Araujo: PhD at the department of Agri-food Engineering and Biothecnology.
- Pedro André Arroyo: One year visiting PhD Student of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil): Semi-continuum approach to discreteness.
Master students
- Nora Wieczorek i Masdeu: Numerical model of cardiac electromechanics (Master in Mathematics, 2019).
- Thomas Prade: Measurement of sarcoplasmic reticulum passive leak current and its relation with spark characteristics in atrial myocytes (Master in Photonics, 2019).
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David Conesa: Integration of a subcellular calcium model with cardiac action potential in human atria. (Master on Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modelling in Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry 2019).
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Nikolina Krizanec: Mathematical modeling of calcium handling dysfunctions leading to atrial fibrillation (Master on Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering, 2017)
- Miquel Marchena: Development of a computational model of calcium singalling in cardiac cells at the submicron scale (Master on Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modelling in Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry 2016).
Bachelor students
- Ivan Caro Mañas: Continuation methods: application to a biophysical problem (Mathematics, 2019)
- Miquel Bosch: Effect of reactive oxygen species in the development of cardiac arrhythmias (Physics Engineering, 2019)
- Montserrat Torres: Stability of intracellular calcium in cardiac myocytes (Mathematics, 2019).
- Nora Wieczorek: Mechanisms of control of cardiac alternans (Mathematics, 2018).
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David Conesa: Analysis of homeostatic regulation in cardiac cells (Physics Engineering, 2018).
- Luis Martin: Coordination of calcium alternans in ventricular Z-Planes due to recovery from inactivation of RyR2 (Physics Engineering, 2017).
- Ferran Pla: Study of calcium sparks and calcium wave propagation in cardiac cells (Mathematics, 2016).
- Pol Canal: Measurement and modeling of atrial cell electrodynamics and atrial arrhythmias (Physics Engineering, 2016).
- Guillem Sanchís: Simulation of calcium release units in cardiomyocytes to study pulsus alternans (Physics Engineering, 2016).
- David Casas: Gpu-accelerated simulations of the chemotactic response of amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (Physics Engineering, 2016).
Internship students
- Katerina Krassakopoulou: Computational modelling of interactions between immune system and Mycobacterium tuberculosis inside an alveolus (Erasmus+ student from University of Patras, 2019).
- Friedrich Puttkammer: Biophysical computational modeling of the intracellular electrophysiology of a single cardiac cell (Biophysics, 2019, student from the Humboldt University of Berlin)
- Maria Franz: Deterministic and stochastic modeling of calcium dynamics (Biochemistry, 2019, student from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
- Dafni Giannari: Comparison study of the Electrophysiology of neurons and cardiac cells. (Erasmus+ student from University of Patras, 2018).
- Pablo Navarro: From ABM to continuous: A tuberculosis alveolar infection model (Physics Engineering. 2018).