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
Quim Valls
Associate Professor at the department of Physics
Rosa Carbó
Associate Professor at the department of Agri-food Engineering and Biothecnology
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). Currently at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
PhD students
- Eduardo Moreno, Computer modeling of the polarity and amoeboid motion of living cells. 2022 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
- Marti Català, Mathematical modelling to study infectious diseases: from understanding to prediction 2021, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Miquel Marchena, Development and application of atrial myocyte models to investigate mechanisms that confer patients a high risk of atrial fibrillation. 2020. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
- Allisson Dantas, Federal University of Riu Grande do Norte (UFRN), 2020 co-supervised in the department of Physics.
- Nura Ahmad, Multiapproach computational modelling of tuberculosis. Understanding its epidemiological dynamics for improving its control in Nigeria. 2020. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
- Pablo Araujo: PhD at the department of Agri-food Engineering and Biothecnology. Developing an individual-based model to study the bacterial denitrification process 2017 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Pedro André Arroyo: One year visiting PhD Student of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil): Semi-continuum approach to discreteness. 2018.
Master students
- Julia Cabrera : Simple mathematical model of the Tuberculosis lesion formation in a secondary lobe of the lungs (Master in Physical Engineering, 2022)
- Eva Rifà: Study of the evolution of new variants during an epidemic (Master in Physics Engineering, 2021).
- Mateo Alonso Development of a cardiac model for the study of sudden cardiac death in infants(Master in Physics Engineering, 2021).
- Silvia Alvarez Spatially distributed SIR models for COVID-19 propagation (Master in Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modeling, 2021)
- Nica Gutu: Biochemical model for the amoeboid motion of Dictyostelium discoideum cells (Master in Physics Engineering, 2020).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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
- M. Cayetana López Cano Integration of Covid19 data bases for visualization and prediction based in AI algorithms (BSc in Data Science and Engineering, 2021).
- Tomàs Urdiales The role of deprivation, ethnics and risk factors in the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (BSc in Physics Engineering, 2021).
- Carla Xifra Influence of fibrosis in the genesis of atrial fibrillation: a simulation study in human atrial tissue (BSc in Physics Engineering, 2021).
- Oriol Bertomeu Analysis of homeostatic effects of buffering levels in a human ventricle computational model (BSc in Physics Engineering, 2021).
- Ana García Numerical model of cardiac electromechanics (BSc in Mathematics, 2021).
- Maria Inmaculada Villanueva Baxarias: Identificació i caracterització automatitzada de lesions de tuberculosi en imatges de tomografia axial computada (Physics Engineering, 2020).
- Armando Estevez Garcia: Machine learning en proves neurològiques de model de ratolins per l’ictus (Physics Engineering, 2020).
- 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).
- 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
- Anna Bandoni: An epidemiological model for malaria that accounts for gene deletions (BioFam Master internship, 2022)
- Fabian Puga: Alternans in homogeneous and heterogeneous cardiac tissue (BioFam Master internship, 2022)
- Inmaculada Baxarias: Analysis and prediction of COVID-19 for EU-EFTA-UK and other countries (Physics Engineering, 2021) (Research support staff)
- Ann-Kathrin von Mickwitz: Analysis of X-Ray scattering images from three-dimensional cardiac infarcted myocardial tissue (DAAD fellowship. Mathematics 2021, University of Bremen)
- Pablo Palacios Analysis and prediction of COVID-19 for EU-EFTA-UK and other countries (Physics Engineering, 2021) (Learning Scholarship)
- Tomas Urdiales Analysis and prediction of COVID-19 for EU-EFTA-UK and other countries (Physics Engineering, 2021) (Learning Scholarship)
- Daniel Molinuevo: Analysis and prediction of COVID-19 for EU-EFTA-UK and other countries (Physics Engineering, 2021)
- 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).