Belén García Pascual

I am a mathematician doing a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), with Martina Scolamiero and Saikat Chatterjee. I did my PhD in Biomathematics at the University of Bergen (Norway) with 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 (Spain) supervised by Luis Giraldo Suárez.

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My research

My research focuses on how to apply robust tools from toplogical data analysis and machine learning to improve personalised medical treatments. Before, I have worked with mathematical and computational models to explain why throughout evolution, mitochondria and plastids have ended up with the genes they do under different environmental dynamics. I have also employed tools from topological data analysis to compare weighted graphs of progression pathways. I have 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, machine learning.

Academic background

Postdoctotal Research Fellow. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics. Affiliated to Karolinska Institute. Stockholm, Sweden. March 2025-March 2027
- Project 'Topological Data Analysis for AI-based Personalized Dementia Treatments'.
- Funded by Digital Futures Fellowship.

Postdoc in the ERC Consolidator Grant 'Decoding Death and Dying in people with Dementia by Digital thanotyping (5-D)'. Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway. 2024. Turned down due to KTH's offer.
PhD in Biomathematics. Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway. 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 and applications of topological data analysis.

Master in Mathematics: Topology. University of Bergen, Norway. 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, Spain. 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 ❤️