Victor Lopez

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Escola d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels.

Carrer Esteve Terradas, 5, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona

email: victor.lopez.de.rioja@upc.edu

Short CV

2025–present: Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.

2024–2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, Malaria Immunology Group, Barcelona Institute for Global Health.

2022–2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Biology and Complex Systems Group, UPC.

2018–2025: Adjunct Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, UPC.

2014­–2019: Ph.D. in Physics, FI Fellow, Universitat de Girona.

2012–2014: M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics, University of Barcelona.

2007–2012: B.Sc. in Physics, University of Barcelona.

Research Interests

Deterministic computational modeling of infectious diseases for short- to mid-term forecasting.

Statistical methods for biomedical data: mixed-effects and Bayesian modeling.

Quantitative immunology and immuno-epidemiology, including correlates of protection and vaccine impact.