Students

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).