Current lab members

  • Leila Cababie (postdoc)

    Information processing in bacterial gene regulatory networks

  • Pablo Casaní (PhD student)
    Signaling dynamics in early embryonic development

  • Pau Clusella (postdoc)
    Mesoscopic brain dynamics

  • Cristina Fernández Avilés

    Lab manager

  • Keith Kennedy (PhD student)

    Multiscale phenomena in biological systems

  • Marianthi-Maria Kokkaleniou (PhD student)
    Bacterial stress responses

  • Alda Sabalic (PhD student)
    Single-cell analysis of cellular inflammation and aging

  • Gabriel Torregrosa (PhD student)
    Symmetry breaking and decision making in cells and organisms

  • Maria Sol Vidal (PhD student)
    Sensorimotor feedback and cognition
     

Alumni

Postdocs

  • Elena Abad (postdoc 2012-2016)

    Signaling and cell dynamics in the immune system
    Currently at Clarivate, Barcelona

  • Pablo Balenzuela (postdoc 2005-2007)

    Dynamics of neuronal systems
    Currently at Universidad de Buenos Aires

  • Núria Domedel-Puig (postdoc 2008-2011)

    Signaling dynamics in the immune system
    Currently at Parc Tauli University Hospital

  • Nara Guisoni (postdoc 2012-2013)

    Decision making in stem cells
    Currently at Universidad Nacional de La Plata

  • Antonio J. Pons (postdoc 2007-2010)

    Mesoscopic brain dynamics
    Currently at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa

  • Ekkehard Ullner (postdoc 2008-2009)

    Noise in excitable systems and circadian oscillators
    Currently at University of Aberdeen

  • Gang Zhou (postdoc 2018-2019)
    Mixed-species bacterial biofilms
    Currently at Guangdong Institute of Microbiology

 

PhD students

  • Alessandro Barardi (PhD student 2013-2015)
    Collective neural oscillations
    Currently at Unicredit, Milan

  • Javier M. Buldú (PhD student 1999-2003)

    Entrainment of semiconductor lasers: noise, modulation and synchronization
    Co-supervised with M. Carme Torrent
    Currently at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid

  • Marta Dies (PhD student 2011-2015)

    Coupled dynamical processes in bacteria
    Currently at Vistaprint, Barcelona

  • Lara Escuain (PhD student 2013-2018)

    Data assimilation in mesoscopic brain models
    Co-supervised with Antonio J. Pons

  • Lorena Espinar (PhD student 2008-2012)

    Dynamics of cellular decision making
    Currently at Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona

  • Marçal Gabaldà (PhD student 2012-2017)

    Information processing in gene and protein networks
    Currently at Stuart, Barcelona

  • Letícia Galera (MSc and PhD student 2013-2018 )

    Bacterial responses to antibiotic stress
    Currently at University of California San Diego

  • Cristina M. González (PhD student 2004-2009)

    Dynamical behavior of delay-coupled semiconductor lasers
    Co-supervised with M. Carme Torrent
    Currently secundary school educator, Girona

  • Marta Ibañes (PhD student 1997-2001)

    Noise-induced phase transitions
    Co-supervised with Jose M. Sancho
    Currently at Universitat de Barcelona

  • David Ibañez Soria (PhD student 2016-2018)
    Analysis of brain dynamics using echo-state networks
    Co-supervised with Aureli Soria-Frisch
    Currently at Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, Geneva

  • Maciej Jedynak (PhD student 2012-2017)

    Mesoscopic brain models
    Co-supervised with Antonio J. Pons
    Currently at Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience

  • Daniel Malagarriga (PhD student 2012-2017)

    Syncronization and emerging behavior of neural mass models
    Co-supervised with Antonio J. Pons
    Currently at Roche, Barcelona

  • Linus Manubens (PhD student 2015-2018)
    Multiscale description of neuronal circuits
    Co-supervised with Mara Dierssen
    Currently at Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona

  • Rosa Martinez Corral (MSc and PhD student 2013-2018)
    Spatiotemporal organization of cellular systems
    Currently at Harvard Medical School, Boston

  • Pau Rué (PhD student 2010-2013)

    Noise and excitability in cellular regulation
    Currently at Typeform.com, Barcelona

  • Belén Sancristóbal (PhD student 2010-2013)

    Collective neuronal oscillations
    Co-supervised with Jose M. Sancho
    Currently at the Barcelona School of Design and Engineering | Elisava

  • Jordi Tiana-Alsina (PhD student 2007-2011)

    Dynamics and synchronization of semiconductor lasers
    Co-supervised with M. Carme Torrent
    Currently at Universitat de Barcelona

  • Carlos Toscano (PhD student 2017-2021)

    Synthetic biology in microbial consortia
    Currently at Toscano Ltd, Sevilla

  • Jordi Zamora-Munt (PhD student 2007-2011)

    Nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of semiconductor lasers
    Co-supervised with Cristina Masoller
    Currently at Basetis, Barcelona

 

MSc students (since 2014)

  • Silvia Badal (MSc student 2019)

    Simulation of brain lesions by whole brain computational modeling
    Co-supervised with Pablo Ruiz
    Currently at Futurs Health, Elche

  • Arianne Bercowsky (MSc student 2018)

    Free-form modeling of single-cell dynamics
    Co-supervised with Rosa Martinez-Corral
    Currently at EPFL, Lausanne

  • Bernat Bramon (MSc student 2014)

    Dynamics of infection
    Currently at ETH Zürich

  • Carmen Fuentes (MSc student 2018)

    Information processing in gene regulatory networks
    Currently at IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Barcelona

  • Miguel Luengo (MSc student 2021)
    Information processing in recurrent gene networks
    Co-supervised with Leila Cababie
    Currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

  • Josep Mercadal (MSc student 2016)

    Dynamics of the immune response to virus infection
    Co-supervised with Elena Abad
    Currently at Universitat de Barcelona

  • Albert Miguel (MSc student 2017)
    Inference of gene-regulatory networks
    Co-supervised with Elena Abad
    Currently at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona

  • Laura Mora (MSc student 2018)
    Decision making in embryonic development
    Currently at Bayer AG

  • Nicolàs Palacio (MSc student 2016)

    Modeling in vitro Min oscillations
    Currently at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory

  • Guillermo Prol (MSc student 2021)
    Multistability in gene-regulatory networks
    Co-supervised with Gabriel Torregrosa
    Currently at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

  • Elba Raimundez (MSc student 2016)

    Pulsatile behavior in cellular signaling
    Co-supervised with Elena Abad
    Currently at University of Bonn, Germany

  • Lucia Rodriguez Vazquez (MSc student 2018)
    Phosphoproteomic correlates of EGCG therapy in Down syndrome
    Co-supervised with Mara Dierssen
    Currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

  • Pablo Ruiz Ibarrechevea (MSc student 2017)
    Dynamics of brain networks
    Currently at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

  • Jaime Sanchez Firth (MSc student 2021)
    Bacterial response to toxins
    Co-supervised with Maria Kokkaleniou
    Currently at Inycom, Barcelona

 

Visiting students

  • Joao Ascensao (visiting Fulbright student 2017)

    Dynamical cell regulation
    Currently at University of California, Berkeley

  • Grace Brooks (visiting MSc student 2015)

    Dynamics of the immune response
    Currently at McGill University, Canada

  • Thomas Holst-Hansen (visiting PhD student 2015)

    Dynamics of natural killer cells
    Currently at Novo Nordisk, Denmark

  • Marit Hoff-Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik (visiting MSc student 2014)

    Dynamics of bacterial biofilms
    Currently at Bremen Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Germany

  • Sebastian Ohse (visiting PhD student 2014)

    Criticality in gene networks
    Currently at University of Freiburg, Germany