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. 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)'. University of Bergen, Faculty of Medicine. 2024. Turned down due to KTH's offer.
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 and applications of topological data analysis.

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 ❤️