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The Physics of Living Matter
CV
Research experience
Research Group Leader
Max Planck Society 2022-present
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems &
Center for Systems Biology Dresden
October 2021 - present
Funding: ERC Starting Grant
Postdoctoral fellow
HFSP fellowship 2018-2021
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science &
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
March 2018 - August 2021
Award: John Archibald Wheeler Fellowship
Ph.D. student
La Caixa fellowship 2013-2017
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
November 2013 - January 2018
Ph.D. Thesis: Forces and flows in cells and tissues. Blebs, active gels, and collective cell migration
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Visiting Ph.D. student
Development Travelling fellowship
Département de Physico-Chimie du Vivant
May 2016 - July 2016
Advisor: Prof. Jacques Prost
Visiting Ph.D. student
EMBO Short-Term fellowship
Institut Curie
Département de Physico-Chimie du Vivant
September 2015 - November 2015
Advisor: Prof. Jacques Prost
Visiting student
Marie Curie Early-Stage Research fellowship
July 2013 - October 2013
Advisors: Dr. Jure Dobnikar, Prof. Daan Frenkel
Research internship
Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter
October 2012 - July 2013
Advisors: Dr. Pietro Tierno, Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Research scholarship
Department of Structure and Constituents of Matter
September 2011 - June 2012
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Research internship
July 2011 - September 2011
Teaching
Pattern Formation in Biology
Fall term 2023-2024
Advanced Biological Physics
Spring term 2022-2023, 2023-2024
The Active Matter Physics of Collective Cell Behaviors
Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Ecology
Summer 2022
Mathematical Models in Biology
Molecular Biology Undergraduate Course (MOL 485)
Spring term 2019-2020
Professor: Prof. Yigal Meir
Biophysics
Physics Graduate Course (PHY 562)
Spring term 2018-2019
Professor: Prof. William Bialek
Biophysics
Spring term 2015-2016
Professors: Prof. Marta Ibañes, Prof. Jordi Soriano
Education
Ph.D. in Physics
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
November 2013 - January 2018
Award: Runner-up of the 2019 Biological Physics Doctoral Thesis Award by the American Physical Society
Award: 1st Jorge Wagensberg Award to the Best Doctoral Thesis in Complex Systems by complexitat.cat
Award: Extraordinary Ph.D. in Physics by the University of Barcelona
Ph.D. Thesis: Forces and flows in cells and tissues. Blebs, active gels, and collective cell migration
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Master in Biophysics
September 2012 - September 2013
Award: Extraordinary Master in Biophysics by the University of Barcelona
Master Thesis: Theory of cell membrane-cortex adhesion dynamics
Advisor: Prof. Jaume Casademunt
Bachelor in Physics
September 2007 - June 2012
Award: Extraordinary Bachelor in Physics by the University of Barcelona