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). Currently at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
PhD students
- 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
- Eva Rifà Study of the evolution of new variants during an epidemic (Master in Physics Engineering, 2020).
- 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
- 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
- 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).