Research Activity

Recognitions

• July 2021: Six-year research period (Sexenio) from 2014 to 2019 by ANECA and CNEAI (Spain).

Participation in R&D projects

• Sept. 2023 - present: PID2022-139143OA-I00 “Desarrollo de herramientas computacionales para la mejora del diagnóstico, pronostico y manejo de la insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva", MICI/AEI (Spain). PIs: Alejandro Alcaine Otín and Violeta Monasterio Bazán. Role: Principal Investigator. [More details]

• Jan. 2023 - present: T71_23D “Grupo en Desarrollo Computing for Medical and Biological Applications (CoMBA)", DGA (Spain). PIs: Violeta Monasterio Bazán and Beatriz Ranera Beltrán. Role: Group Member.

• June 2020 - May 2023: PID2019-104881RB-I00: "Análisis de señal basado en la fisiología para el guiado del manejo y terapia de arritmias cardiacas" , MICI/AEI (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role: Research Team Member.

• Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2022: USJ2021071 - "Desarrollo  de  herramientas  computacionales para la investigación in silico de  la  electrofisiología ventricular humana en condiciones de insuficiencia cardiaca". University San Jorge Private Call (Spain). PI: Violeta Monasterio Bazán. Role: Research Team Member.

• Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2022: T39_20R “Grupo Referencia Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation (BSICoS)", DGA (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role: Group Member.

• Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2022: "MY-ATRIA - MutlidisciplinarY training network for ATrial fibRillation monItoring, treAtment and progression", ITN Network  (European Commission). PI: Pablo Laguna Lasaosa (Universidad de Zaragoza). Role: Collaborator.

• Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2019: 20154030: "PREDICTAF: Towards an integrated personalized approach for the early PREDICTion of Atrial Fibrillation in patients at risk", Fundació La Marató de TV3 (Spain). PI: Gemma Piella Fenoy. Role: Team Member.

• Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2019: T39_17R “Grupo Referencia Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation (BSICoS)", DGA (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role: Group Member.

• Feb. - May 2018: RTC-2016-5445-1: "ABLAVIEW - Un sistema innovador de ablación por radiofrecuencia guiado por imagen para el tratamiento de la fibrilación auricular", MINECO (Spain). PI: Antonio Berruezo Sánchez. Role: Working Team Member.

• May 2017 - Jan. 2018: DPI2015-71640-R: “Herramientas computacionales para investigar la morfología y dinámica del flujo sanguíneo tras el cierre de la orejuela izquierda en pacientes con fibrilación auricular”, MINECO (Spain). PI: Óscar Cámara Rey. Role: Working Team Member.

• May 2017 - Aug. 2019: "CardioFunXion - Towards a novel paradigm for cardiac function assessment from imaging", ITN Network  (European Commission). PI: Bart Bijnens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Role: Collaborator.

• May 2017 - Aug. 2019: 2017 SGR 01386: Grupo consolidado "Barcelona Centre for New Medical Technologies (BCN MedTech)", Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain). PI: Miguel Ángel Gonzalez Ballester. Role: Group Member.

• Jan. - May 2017: TIN2014-53567-R "Evaluación no invasiva del sistema nervioso autónomo mediante análisis de variabilidad de Bioseñales, aplicación a situaciones clínicas relacionadas con el estrés", MINECO (Spain). PI: Raquel Bailón Luesma. Role: Working Team Member.

• 2016 - May 2017: MULTITOOLS2HEART “Multiscale Computational Tools to Improve Diagnosis, Risk Assessment and Treatment in Prevalent Heart Diseases”, CIBER-BBN (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role:  Team Member.

• 2014 - 2016: TEC2013-42140-R "Procesado de señal orientado por la fisiología para manejo personalizado del riesgo cardiovascular y guiado de procedimientos invasivos", MINECO (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role: Working Team Member.

• 2014 - 2016: T96 “Grupo Consolidado Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation (BSICoS)", DGA (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role: Group Member.

• 2014 - 2015: INTER-CARDIO “Computed-Assisted Interpretation of Electrical Signals: A Step Forward in Undersatanding and Treating Cardiac Diseases”, CIBER-BBN (Spain). PI: Esther Pueyo Paules. Role: Team Member.

• 2012 - 2013: T30 "Grupo Consolidado de Tecnologías de las Comunicaciones (GTC)", DGA (Spain). PI: Enrique Masgrau Gómez. Role: Group Member.

• 2011 - 2013: TEC2010-21703-C03-02 "Procesado multimodal de señales biomedicas para el analisis y la caracterizacion fisiologica de afecciones cardiovasculares, respiratorias y autonomicas", MICINN (Spain). PI: Juan Pablo Martínez Cortés. Role: F.P.I. Grantholder.

Invited talks

• "Impacto de la inteligencia artificial, el análisis de datos y las aplicaciones en el diagnóstico y tratamiento"  Jornada de Innovación Docente y Nuevos Retos en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza), 2024.

• "Automatic electrogram signal analysis for reentrant circuit mapping on scar-related ventricular arrhythmia patients" XIV CIBER-BBN Annual Conference, ON-LINE, 2020.

• "Multimodal intracardiac data analysis towards a better ablation guiding of cardiac arrhythmias" MY-ATRIA Summer Shcool: Modelling and Signal Processing, Jaca (Spain), 2019.

Stays at other research centres

• Apr. - Jun. 2015: 62 days at PhySense Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) supervised by Dr. Óscar Cámara, funded by a short stay F.P.I. grant (Ref: EEBB-I-15-09466) from The Economy and Competitivity Ministry of Spanish Government. Budget: 1.730,00€.

• Jul. - Oct. 2014: 99 days at BIOtech Centre of Universitá degli studi di Trento (Trento, Italy) supervised by Dr. Luca Faes, funded by a short stay F.P.I. grant (Ref: EEBB-I-14-08406) from The Economy and Competitivity Ministry of Spanish Government. Budget: 5.300,00€.

• Jun. - Nov. 2013: 180 days at Applied Biomedica Systems B.V. (Maastricth, The Netherlands) supervised by Dr. Richard P.M. Houben funded by a short stay F.P.I. grant (Ref: EEBB-I-13-06613) from The Economy and Competitivity Ministry of Spanish Government. Budget: 9.600,00€.

Reviewer activity

Reviewer for R&D agencies

• Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Ministry of Science, Innovation and  Universities - Spain)

Reviewer of scientific journal papers

• Revista Española de Cardiología (Elsevier)

• Computers in Biology and Medicine (Elsevier)

• Entropy (MDPI).

• IEEE Access (IEEE).

• Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE).

• Medical & Biological Engineering and Computing (Springer).

• Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (Elsevier).

• Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE).

• Applied Sciences (MDPI).

• npj Digital Medicine (Nature).

• Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (Frontiers).

Reviewer of conference proceedings

• 42th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2020).

• 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2014).

• 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2013).

Organizing Comitee member

• Computing in Cardiology 2013, Zaragoza, Spain.