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- CV -

- Education -

Jun 2008
Master (MSc) in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences (UB/UPF)
Nov 2007
Doctor (PhD) in Mathematics (UB)
Sep 2002
DEA (MSc) in Mathematics (UB)
Jul 2000
Llicenciatura (BSc) in Mathematics (UB)

- Research projects -

  • Signs, polynomials, and reaction networks. ERC Consolidator Grant (2023-2027); approx EUR 1,8 million.
  • Relaxation oscillations in biochemical reaction networks. Novo Nordisk Fonden (2022-2024); approx DKK 1.3 million.
  • Model reduction and Hopf bifurcations in reaction networks. Research Project 1, Independent Research Fund of Denmark (2021-2024); approx DKK 2.8 million.
  • Understanding bistability underlying acute and chronic infections in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. Novo Nordisk Fonden (2020-2021); approx DKK 1.3 million.
  • Qualitative profiling of biochemical reaction networks. Sapere Aude Starting Grant. DFF (2015-2020). DKK 4.9 million.
  • Mathematical Theory for Biological Interaction Networks and Applications. Lundbeck Fonden (2014-2016, coapplicant); approx DKK 1 million.

- Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows -

PhD students
  • O. Henriksson (2022-)
  • M. Telek (2021-)
  • A. Sadeghimanesh (2015-2018)
  • A. Torres (2017-2020)
Postdocs
  • L. Brustenga (2020-2021)
  • B. Pascual Escudero (2019-2021, Marie Curie Fellowship)
  • A. Sadeghimanesh (2019)
  • N. Kaihnsa (2019, 4 months)
  • M. Helmer (2017-2019)
  • J. Kool (2015-2017)
  • M. Sáez (co-supervision, 2014-2017)
  • M. Marcondes de Freitas (co-supervision, 2014-2016)

- Selected awards -

  • (2015-2020) Member of the Young Academy, Denmark (selection is via competitive application)
  • (2011) Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral grant. Generalitat de Catalunya.
  • (2010) Josep Teixidor Prize to PhD-thesis in mathematics. Institute of Catalan Studies

- Institutional responsibilities and participation in committees -

  • (2021 - 2023) Member of the mathematics panel, Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación)
  • (2022 – ) Associate editor of Mathematical Biosciences
  • Member of the executive committee of the conference Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (MEGA) 2022
  • Secretary of the scientific committee of the Royal Society of Mathematics of SpainRSME (2021- )
  • (2021 – 2026) Member of the board of the European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
  • (2020 – ) Organizer of the online seminar of the Mathematics of Reaction Networks
  • (2019 – 2020) Panel member (Mathematics committee), Spanish Research Council.
  • (2018 – ) Chair of the committee for diversity. Dept. Mathematical Sciences, UCPH
  • (2018 – 2019) Elected secretary of SIAM activity group in Algebraic Geometry
  • (2016 - 2021) Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry
  • (2015 – 2018) Member of the commission for gender and equality, Faculty of Science, UCPH
  • (2015) Member of scientific committee of the “3rd Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores”, Spain

- Past positions -

2014-15
Adjunkt/Assistant professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
2012-13
Postdoc, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
2010-12
Postdoc, Bioinformatics Research Centre (Aarhus)
2006-10
Assistant professor (Ajudant), Dept. Àlgebra i Geometria, U. Barcelona
2005-06
Early stage researcher grant (Marie Curie Research Training Network Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry), U. Regensburg
2001-05
PhD student (FPI and FI grant), Dept. Àlgebra i Geometria, U. Barcelona
2000-01
Teaching assistant (Associat substitut), Dept. Àlgebra i Geometria, U. Barcelona

- Research stays -

Apr-Jul, 2017
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona.
March 1-7, 2015
ICTP. Trieste, Italy.
Oct 2014
Isaac Newton Institute. Cambridge.
Oct-Nov 2013
University of Buenos Aires. Argentina
Jul-Dec 2011
Imperial College London. UK
Jul 2010
Statistics and Computational Biology research group. Universität Leipzig
Feb-Jun 2010
Bioinformatics Research Centre. Aarhus DK
Apr-May 2005
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Berlin
Mar-Apr 2005
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu. Paris
Dec 2003
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich
Sep-Oct 2003
University of Western Ontario, London Ontario