CV, Skills, and Professional Experience
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Skills and techniques used in my work
Mathematical and statistical physics techniques: scaling theory, canonical ensemble, percolation, linear algebra
Probability and statistics: stochastic and Markov processes, Monte Carlo methods, statistical parametric models
Complex networks: processes on networks, structural study of networks, hypergraphs
Numerical methods and algorithms: Monte Carlo, graphs and networks algorithms, differential equations, linear algebra, statistics
Programming languages and tools: python, C, Fortran, javascript, dot graph language. Packages, environments, and libraries: Mathematica, Matlab, networkx, Netlogo, numpy and scipy, R, graphviz and neato, Vernier LoggerPro teaching laboratory software.
Data analysis: expertise in large scale and confidential data handling. Collection and creation of online data. Data curation from raw sources such as health and communications datasets. Experience with raster geographic data.
Languages: Spanish (native speaker), English (fully fluent), French (basic).
Professional experience
Research:
Senior and James Martin Research Fellow in Complexity Science. CABDyN Complexity Centre and Department of Physics, University of Oxford. 4/08 to present.
Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, 4/08 to present.
Postdoctoral Fellow. Theoretical Division. Los Alamos National Laboratory. 4/05 to 4/08.
Teaching:
Lecturer, Pembroke College, Oxford, 2014 to present.
Lecturer, The Queen’s College, Oxford, Academic year 2009-2010.
Summer Faculty, Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston , MA (USA), 2000.
Faculty member, Boston University Academy (Secondary School level), Boston, MA (USA), Academic year 2000-2001
Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Department of Physics, Boston, MA (USA). Academic years 1997 to 2000 and 2001 to 2003.
Selected talks and Colloquia
"Labor flows and unemployment mediated by networks" Plenary talk at opening session of International Conference on Computational Social Science, Helsinki, Finland, June 2015.
”Percolation induced by disorder” CABDyN Complexity Centre colloquium series, University of Oxford, February 2011
”Limited Path Percolation in Complex Networks” Invited talk for Leeds Applied Nonlinear Dynamics colloquium series, University of Leeds, September 2010.
”Tools and Ideas from Complex Network Theory”, Oxford BioNets Day, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, October 2008.
”Flow in Random Networks”. Invited talk for colloquium series at Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia, September 2006.