CV
Education
- Ph.D in Multimedia and Communications, UC3M, 2018
- M.S. in Multimedia and Communications, UC3M, 2015
- B.S. in Telecommunications (5-year diploma), UC3M, 2012
Work experience
- 2022–Present: Assistant Professor
- 2019–2022: Postdoctoral Scientist
- Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (HGUGM)
- Instituto Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM)
- Supervisor: Dr. Ángel Arenal
- Topics: Research in cardiac arrhythmias
- 2019–2022: Adjunct Professor
- 2023, 2024: Visiting Researcher
Prizes and awards (selection)
- Finalist “Young Investigator Award in Basic and Translational Science” (EHRA2024, Belin, 2024)
- Research stay grant at Queen Mary University of London, UK (UC3M, 2023, 2024)
- Finalist “Awards for the Best Invention Protected by Industrial Property Rights” (Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, 2022)
- Original Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias Study Award (RITMO22, 2022)
- Travel Scholarships (EHRA 2024, Heart Rhythm 2022, RITMO22, RITMO21, RITMO20)
- Nvidia GPU Grant (Nvidia Corporation, 2019)
- Award for Best Communication with an Innovation Component (IiSGM, Spain, 2019)
- Award for Original Work in Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias (RITMO18, Spain, 2018)
- Excellence Grant (Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, 2006)
Grants, fellowships, and projects (selection)
- FLAMA - Interdisciplinary R&D project in the field of Artificial Intelligence (2024 call)
- Co-Principal Investigator. Institutional grant by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Includes 74980,28 EUR for hiring a researcher (2-year contract) and research development
- Aid for hiring a research assistant (Youth Employment Program) (2023 call)
- Principal Investigator. Competitive call. Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
- Includes 47964,58 EUR for hiring a researcher (2-year contract)
- Assistant Professor (2022 call) (Current employment)
- Competitive fellowship by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (6-year contract)
- Identification of AF substrate in sinus rhythm based on electroanatomical and MRI (2022 call)
- Principal Investigator. Competitive national call. AES 2022 Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
- Includes 118.580 EUR for hiring a researcher (3-year contract) and research development
- Integrated Platform for Real-Time Interpretation of AF Signals (2021 call)
- Principal Investigator. Competitive national call. AES 2021 Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
- Includes 105.270 EUR for research development
- H2020 BRAV3 “Regenerative medicine: from new insights to new applications” (2019 call)
- Collaborator. H2020 funded by the European Commission. 8 million EUR
- Includes 441.875 EUR for hiring and research development
- Radial Ablation for the Control of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (ARTIST Trial) (2018 call)
- Project coordinator. Competitive national call. AES 2018 Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Includes 141.570 EUR for research development and clinical study initiation
- PIPF fellowship for PhD studies (2015 call)
- Competitive grant by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (3-year contract)
Invited presentations (selection)
- “From Beats to Bytes: Engineering AI-Solutions for Arrhythmias”, Biobytes, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, UK, 2024
- “Discussion among experts. AI, a fad?”, XXI Course on Ablation and Navigation Systems in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital Spain, 2024
- “Improving personalized treatment of atrial fibrillation through digital twins”, Seminar: Clinical application of cardiac computational models, Spanish Network of Cardiac Computational Modeling, Valencia, Spain 2024
- “Artificial intelligence, new tools to ensure the sustainability of the sustainability of follow-up of patients with implantable cardiac devices”, RITMO24, Spanish Society of Cardiology, Spain, 2024
- “Electroanatomical mapping of atrial appendages”. XX Course on Ablation and Navigation Systems in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital Spain, 2023
- “Translational Research in Cardiology: From the Lab to the Clinic”, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 2023
Teaching (selection)
- 2019 - present MSc in Machine Learning for Health: Biosignals&Bioimages, Biomedical Image Processing
- 2019 - present BSc in Biomedical Engineering: Design of Medical Instrumentation, Bio-medical Image Processing, Biomedical Applications of Nanotechnology, Biomedical Microdevices
- 2015 - 2018 BSc in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering: Digital Communications, Circuit Analysis and Design, Network Access Technologies, Systems, and Circuits
Supervision of Postdoctoral, PhD students, and Researchers
- 2024 - present Supervision. María Martínez, Postdoctoral researcher in 3D atrial AI models
- 2023 - present Supervision. Juan López-Dóriga, Research Assistant in cardiac clinical studies
- 2022 - present Co-Supervision. 3 PhD students (on going).
- 2020 - present Supervision. 7 Master students (5 completed), 21 Bachelor students (18 completed)
Commissions of Trust, Memberships, and Peer Reviewer Experience
- Projects and grants: Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) reviewer
- Scientific societies and professional associations: The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), European Society of Cardiology, Spanish Society of Cardiology
- Journals: European Heart Journal, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Europace
- Conferences: Heart Rhythm Society Congress 2024, IEEE International Symposium on Computer- Based Medical Systems 2023, European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations ESGCO
