background

• Associate professor, U Groningen, since 2022

• Assistant professor, U Groningen, 2017-22

• Group leader, Center for Mathematical Modeling, U Chile, 2015-17

• Project leader, Institute of Computational Mechanics, TU Munich, 2012-14

• PhD in applied mathematics, INRIA & U Paris 6, 2012

• Research fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, 2008

• M.Sc. in structural mechanics, U Católica de Chile, 2007

Scientific genealogy!

research grants

• Starting Grant, European Research Council, 2019 (1.5M Euro)

• Health Technology Research & Innovation Grant (RuG), 2023 (220K Euro)

• RuG-FSE research grant, 2022 (150K Euro)

awards

• Guest professorship, TU Munich, Germany, 2016

• Best Ph.D. thesis on numerical methods, SMAI-GAMNI, France, 2013

• Best Ph.D. thesis in applied mathematics, Airbus Foundation, France, 2013

• Best poster at the 7th Int. Conf. on Functional Imaging & Modeling of the Heart, 2013

• Best M.Sc. thesis in structural & geotechnical eng., U Católica de Chile, 2007

scientific community

• Programme committee member, Functional Imaging & Modeling of the Heart

• Programme committee member, Int. Conf. Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

• Programme committee member, Int. Conf. Comp. Bioengineering

• Member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Dutch-Flemish Society of Scientific Computing

• Member of the  Burgerscentrum for Fluid Mechanics (JMBC), Dutch Center on Engineering Mechanics (EM-NL)

• Member of the  Int. Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Virtual Physiological Human Institute (VPHi)

• Reviewer of grant proposals for the European Research Council (ERC), German Research Foundation (DFG), Heart Research UK, Dutch Heart Foundation (Hartstichting), Chilean Research Agency (ANID) 

• Reviewer of Comp. Meth. Applied Mechanics & Eng., Int. J. Num. Meth. in Biomedical Eng., Int. J. Num. Meth. in Fluids, Biomech. Model. Mechanobio., Biomedical Research Int.