Studies and Scientific positions

2024–Present — Principal Investigator, Mathematical and Computational Biology Group, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona, Spain.

2019–Present — Co-founder and Member, CSIC Associated Unit (CRM–I2SysBio): Dynamical Systems and Computational Virology.

2019–2024 — Ramón y Cajal Researcher, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona, Spain.

2017–2018 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona, Spain.

2012–2016 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.

2011–2012 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Virology Institute, Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA.

2009–2011 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP), CSIC–Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

2009 — Ph.D. in Biomedicine, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Advisor: Ricard Solé.

2004 — M.Sc. in Biomedicine, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.

2002 — B.Sc. in Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Selected publications

• M. Fucho-Rius, S. Maretvadakethope, À. Haro, T. Alarcón, J. Sardanyés, R. Pérez-Carrasco. Local nearby bifurcations lead to synergies in critical slowing down: the case of mushroom bifurcations. Physical Review E 111, 024213 (2025)  doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024213

• J. Sardanyés, F. Ivančić, B. Vidiella. Identifying regime shifts, transients and late warning signals for proactive ecosystem management. Biological Conservation 290: 110433 (2024) doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110433

• D. Oro, Ll. Alsedà, A. Hastings, M. Genovart, J. Sardanyés. Social copying drives a tipping point for nonlinear population collapse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120(11), e2214055120 (2023) doi: 10.1073/pnas.2214055120

• R. Solé, J. Sardanyés, SF Elena. Phase transitions in virology. Reports on Progress in Physics 84: 115901 (2021) doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac2ab0

• T. Alarcón, J. Sardanyés, A. Guillamon, JA. Menendez. Bivalent chromatin as a therapeutic target in cancer: An in silico predictive approach for combining epigenetic drugs. PLoS Computational Biology 17(6), e1008408 (2021) doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008408

• B. Vidiella, A. Guillamon, J. Sardanyés, V. Maull, J. Pla, N. Conde, R. Solé. Engineering self-organized criticality in living cells. Nature Communications 12: 4415 (2021) doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24695-4

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