Laureano Ramirez de la Piscina

Associate Professor at the department of Physics. Ph.D. in Physics in 1990 for the Universitat de Barcelona. His research interests are related to nonlinear systems, pattern formation and fluctuations.

Blas Echebarria

Associate Professor at the department of Physics. Coordinator of the research group on Computational Biology and Complex Systems (BIOCOM-SC). BSc in physics (1994) for the University of the Basque Country and PhD in physics (1998) for the University of Navarre. His main research interests lie on the applications of nonlinear dynamics to fluid dynamics, material science and biophysics. 

Angelina Peñaranda

Associate Professor at the department of Physics. She obtained her graduation in Physics in 1981 at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and gained her PhD in Physics in 1991 (UB). She currently performs her research on cardiac modelling and in modelling suspensions of superconducting granules.

Enric Alvarez

Associate Professor at the department of Physics and member of the deparment board and the University Senate. He got the degree in Physics in 1998 and the PhD in Physics in 2004 at the University of Barcelona. He is currently working in computational neuroscience and cardiac modelling.

Sergio Alonso

Associate Professor at the department of Physics. He got the degree in Physics in 1998 and the PhD in Physics in 2004 at the University of Barcelona. He is currently working in cell biophysics, cardiac modelling, and fundamental non-linear physics.

Inma Rodríguez Cantalapiedra

Associate Professor at the department of Physics. Ph.D. in Physics (1995) for the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Her main research interests lie on the applications of nonlinear dynamics to fluid dynamics, material science and biophysics.

Carlota E. Auguet Sangrá

Associate Professor at the department of Physics. She obtained her graduation in Physics in 1979 at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and gained her PhD in Physics in 1988 (UB). Her main research interests are related to material sciences.

PhD thesis

• Miquel Marchena, PhD student of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Development and application of atrial myocyte models to investigate mechanisms that confer patients a high risk of atrial fibrillation.

• Eduardo Moreno, PhD student of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Computer modeling of the polarity and amoeboid motion of living cells.

• Martí Català, PhD student of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Computer modeling of tuberculosis lesions dynamics.

• Gustavo Montes: One year visiting PhD student of the Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil): Uncertainty Quantificarion and Stochastic Variables for Models of Cardiac Myocytes.

• Pedro André Arroyo: One year visiting PhD Student of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil): Semi-continuum approach to discreteness.

Master thesis

• Nica Gutu: Biochemical model for the amoeboid motion of Dictyostelium discoideum cells (Master in Physics Engineering, 2020).

Finished

• 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 thesis

Finished

• 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

• 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)
• Miquel Bosch: Effect of reactive oxygen species in the development of cardiac arrhythmias (Physics Engineering, 2019)
• Maria Franz: Deterministic and stochastic modeling of calcium dynamics (Biochemistry, 2019, student from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
• David Conesa: Analysis of homeostatic regulation in cardiac cells (Physics Engineering, 2018)
• 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).

Finished

• Francesc Font: Graduate in Physics by the University of Barcelona, Master in Mathematical Engineering in the UPC, PhD on Applied Mathematics in the UPC. Postdoctoral fellow in the McMaster University (Canada) and int the Univeristatt Politècnica de Catalunya. Actually in the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM).