Belén García Pascual
I am a mathematician with a PhD in Biomathematics from the University of Bergen, Norway. My supervisors were Iain Johnston, in the Stochastic Biology Group, and Jan Nordbotten. I have a master in Topology from the University of Bergen under the supervision of Morten Brun, and a bachelor in Mathematics from Complutense University of Madrid supervised by Luis Giraldo Suárez.
Contact
📍 Realfagbygget, Állegt.41, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
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My research
I work with mathematical models to explain why throughout evolution, mitochondria and plastids have ended up with the genes they do under different environmental dynamics. I also explore multi-scale, evolutionary systems using computational models. Other research work focuses on the use of tools from topological data analysis to compare weighted graphs of progression pathways. I have also done research in generative artificial intelligence using large language models (LLMs) for synthetic tabular data in healthcare.
Research interests:
Topological data analysis, mathematical modelling, systems biology, biostatistics, phenotypic plasticity, machine learning, LLMs, synthetic data.
Education
PhD in Biomathematics. University of Bergen. January 2021 - October 2024
Funded by the ERC-project ‘Evolution and Control of Bioenergetic Organelles (EvoConBiO)’.
Areas of expertise: mathematical and stochastic modelling - biostatistics - evolutionary algorithms - computer simulations - applications of topological data analysis.
Courses: BINF305 Systems Biology (Autumn 2021, grade A), MAT230 Non-linear Differential Equations (Spring 2022, grade A) and MAT902 Discrete Stochastic Modelling Applications in Cell Biology (Spring 2023, grade B).
Post-student. University of Bergen. Autumn 2020
Research in Topological Data Analysis.
Course: INF161 Introduction to Data Science.
Master in Mathematics: Topology. University of Bergen. August 2018 - July 2020
Master thesis: ‘Geometric Reconstruction and Persistence Methods’. Grade B.
Areas of expertise: algebraic topology, topological data analysis, differential and algebraic geometry.
Bachelor in Mathematics. Complutense University of Madrid. September 2013- June 2018
Bachelor thesis: ‘The Uniformization Theorem for Riemann Surfaces’. Grade 9 over 10. Presentation slides.
Areas of expertise: topology and complex geometry.
Erasmus at the University of Bristol, UK. September 2016- June 2017.
The pictures below are of my dearest rabbit Dorothy ❤️
