The DEVICE's team consists of:

BERG team members

Antoni Ivorra, PhD

Antoni Ivorra is an Associate Professor and a Serra Húnter Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Before joining the UPF in 2010, he enjoyed a three-year postdoctoral position at the University of California at Berkeley (2005-2008) followed by an appointment as Assistant Research Engineer at the same institution for a year. Then he moved to Villejuif, France, for an eight-month postdoctoral position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) -Institut Gustave Roussy. During 1998-2005, he was with the Biomedical Applications Group of the Centre Nacional de Microelectrònica, Bellaterra, Spain. He received a M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1998 and a Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the same institution in 2005.
His research is mostly focused on bioelectrical phenomena and on exploring the use of these phenomena for implementing new methods and devices for biomedical applications. Specifically, his main research topics are electroporation, particularly for cancer treatments, electrical bioimpedance for medical diagnosis and electrical stimulation for neuroprosthetics. He is author or coauthor of 32 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters and more than 30 conference contributions (> 550 ISI citations, h-index 15). He has been inventor or co-inventor of 10 families of patent applications. In addition he has performed multiple consultancy and technology transfer tasks for companies in the field of electrical bioimpedance and in thefield of electroporation. Winner of the 2008 Big Ideas Contest by CITRIS of the University of California.

Quim Castellví

Quim Castellvi studied Electronics Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, from which he received his diploma in 2009. During the following two years, he took a MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Barcelona. Since October 2011, he has been working as research engineer at the DTIC. In September 2012 he started his PhD supported by a high competitive scholarship FPU awarded by the Spanish Ministry; the main focus of his research is cancer treatment by means of electrical methods.

Alvaro Jansà

Alvaro Jansà studied Human Biology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, from which he received his diploma in 2012. After this, he took a MSc degree in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry.

After this, he worked in the bioinformatics sector, developing and assesing several projects based on Next Generation Sequencing technology and bioinformatics for the public reasarch sector, but also.
In November 2015 he joined to UPF-BERG as a Scientific Project Manager developing a medical device for prostate cancer based on electrical methods.

External advisors

Agustín Franco

Dr. Agustín Franco is a consultant at urologic service in Hospital Clínic de Barcelona with more than 25 years of experience in the urology field. He had graduated in medicine and surgery at Universidad de Salamanca in 1983 and postgraduate urologic studies at Universitat de Barcelona. He has been involved in teaching during his entire career being an associate professor at Medicine Faculty. Furthermore he has been implicated in research with more than a hundred of conference, course and seminar talks. In 2012 he received the Professional Excellence Award by the Barcelona Collage of Physicians.

Maria Sarret Pons

From 1991 she is a Lecturer Professor at the Physical Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona (UB); from 1986 to 1991 she was Associated Professor at the UB. She studied Chemistry at the UB, from which she received her diploma in 1981 and the Ph.D. degree in electrochemistry from the same institution in 1987. Her research has been meanly focused on electrochemistry: electrodeposition (metals, alloys and composites), finishing processes, electrochemical corrosion and more recently anodizing processes on aluminum and titanium. She has participated in 32 public R+D+I projects and in 21 projects with various surface treatment industries, with a know-how transfer MacDermid Inc. (2000): New Zn-Ni alkaline electroplating bath and passivation solutions. She is coauthor of 61 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has 65 communications to scientific congresses

Carlos M. Müller Jevenois

Carlos M. Müller (Barcelona, 1951) is a Full Professor (Catedrático) at the Dept. of Physical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (UB). He has held a number of distinguished positions during his career: Research Vice-Rector of the UB (1986-1990), Head of the Physical Chemistry Dept. (1994-2000), Scientific advisor of Fundación CIDETEC (2005-2012), Leader of research team ELECTRODEP: SGR (2005-2013) and member of the Network of innovation support Centres (XIT-TECNIO) (2002-2013). Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the UB in 1979.

Representative of Spain at the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) (2008-2013). Member of the European board of EAST (European Academy of Surface Technology) (2003-). Current research work: Main field: Electrochemistry. Topics: Surface Electrochemistry Electrodeposition of metals and alloys. Corrosion. Coating characterization. Anodizing processes: Aluminium –templates / nanomaterials. Applications of electrochemistry to biochemical processes. Coordinator of different public R+D+I projects from the “Programa Nacional de Materiales”of the Spanish Ministry of Universities and research, and consultant on electrochemical deposition techniques, corrosion and materials characterisation: contracts with several SME’s and surface treatment industries. KNOW-HOW transfer to MacDermid Inc. (2000): New Zn-Ni alkaline electroplating bath and passivation solutions. Number of papers in refereed journals: 90. Communications to Scientific Meetings: 87 including 10 invited lectures. Positive rating of 6 merits in research from the Ministry and 2 from AQU. Special mention of the city of Barcelona Award 2004 in the field of technological research.

Lourdes Camp