I am an Assistant Professor (Professora Lectora) in the Department of Mathematics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a member of the GEOMVAP (Geometry of Varieties and Applications) research group.
My research focuses on algebraic statistics and its applications to phylogenetics and graphical models. I use tools from algebraic and semialgebraic geometry to investigate the structure of statistical models, addressing questions of identifiability, parameter estimation, model selection, and inference.
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Prior to joining UPC, I was a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellow in the Statistics group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and affiliated with the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), working with Gábor Lugosi and Piotr Zwiernik. My previous postdoctoral experience includes appointments at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) with Liam Solus, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany) in the Nonlinear algebra group led by Bernd Sturmfels, and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) with Elina Robeva. Additionally, I was a semester postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University (Providence, US) during the Fall 2024 program and a visiting researcher at the University of Alaska (Fairbanks, US) in Spring 2022, hosted by Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes.
I received my PhD from UPC in July 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Marta Casanellas and Prof. Jesús Fernández Sánchez. My thesis is titled Algebraic and semi-algebraic phylogenetic reconstruction.
Office Address:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Dept. de Matemàtiques
Campus Diagonal Nord
Omega Building, Office 4.14
Carrer de Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona
e-mail: marina.garrote (at) upc (dot) edu