Resume. What I offer
Science for life
Although not directly related with my field of research, I have always been interested in biomedical applications of nanotechnology. The simulation methods that I’ve been using to study novel materials are similar to those used for molecular dynamics analysis of complex biological systems and I am confident I can put my education to work proficiently in both fields.
Now that I’ve finished my PhD, I’m pursuing a career change towards the biomedical world where I am willing to exploit the programming and problem-solving skills that I’ve acquired during these last years. I received a solid mathematical education and, during my PhD, programming became my daily routine. These tools are the basis for bioinformatics and I believe that my lack of experience in the specifics of biomedicine can soon be overcome with hard work and enthusiasm.
With this purpose, I am taking several courses on different related technical topics such as the statistics beyond clinical research, an introduction to bioinformatics centered in genomics and an introduction to machine learning algorithms. These courses are teaching me about interesting applications of data science and analysis to the field of science for life.
Education
Sep 2010 - Apr 2016
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and Nanotechnology
Thesis entitled "Characterizing Real-life Graphene through the Latest First-Principles Methodological Developments". Cum Laude. International mention.
- Properties of 2D materials
- Density Functional Theory (VASP, OpenMX, Fireball)
- Scanning Tunneling Microscope simulations
- Scanning Tunneling Microscope code development
- Computation in clusters and supercomputers
- Scientific writing
Sep 2009 - Jun 2010
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Master's degree in Condensed Matter Physics and Nanotechnology
Master's Thesis entitled "Theoretical study of the electronic properties and STM images of (S)-Proline on Cu(110)”
- New materials and low dimensionality systems
- Self-assembled monolayers of organic molecules
- Scanning Tunneling Microscope simulations
Merit-based scholarship for postgraduate studies
- Funder: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- The scholarship covered all the master expenses
Master's Thesis Publication
This work was selected to be published in the first edition of "Masters de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid"
This work was selected to be published in the first edition of "Masters de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid"
Sep 2004 - Jun 2009
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Bachelor's degree in Physics
Excellence scholarship (2004-2005)
- Funder: Madrid Council
- Project name: Neutrino Oscillations
- Lead researcher: Belén Gavela Legazpi (Astroparticles group of the Theoretical Physics Department, UAM)
Initial research grant for students in their last year of studies (2008-2009)
- Funder: Spanish Research and Science Ministry
- Project name: Study of high density hadronic systems, from the point of view of the experiments of heavy atoms and its relevance within the theory of the fundamental interaction
- Lead researcher: Carlos Pena Ruano (Theoretical Physics Insitute, UAM)
Previous experience
Biostatistician
Contribute to the development of standard operating procedures for biostatistics and clinical trials.
Responsible for clinical statistics activities, including:
- To prepare Statistical Analysis Plans
- To review Query Plan
- To assist and provide additional support to the Clinical Data Management functions
- Prepare reports that summarize the analysis of research data, interpret findings and provide conclusions and recommendations
- Perform complex statistical analyses for a broad spectrum of types of data and types of studies
- Prepare reports that summarize the analysis of research data, interpret the findings and provide conclusions and recommendations
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Assistant Proffesor
The Ayudante Universidad LOU (020020060) job is a merit-based contract given by the university according to the progression of your research to fund the last years of your PhD. A teaching quota as assistant professor is also included in the contract.
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Researcher
Predoctoral contract funded by a research project
- Project name: Force for Future: Advanced Force Technology for Future Nanoelectronics and Nanomedicine (Consolider Program)
- Project code: CSD2010-00024
- Project period: 27/12/2010 - 26/12/2015
- Lead researcher (Group 3): José María Gómez Rodríguez
- Coordinator: Ricardo García García
12 May - 20 Jun 2014
COST proyect
Visiting researcher at Aalto University
(Helsinki, Finland)
(Helsinki, Finland)
Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) within an European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) project to visit the group of Proffesor Hannes Jonsson to work on problems about energy barriers calculation using the Nudged Elastic Band method (NEB) in different systems
- Project name: Reducible oxide chemistry, structure and functions
- Project code: COST Action CM1104
- Project period: 19/04/2012 - 18/04/2016
- Lead researcher: Rubén Pérez Pérez
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Researcher
Predoctoral contract funded by a research project
- Project name: Muestreo cuantitativo de la carga eléctrica a escala atómica usando fuerzas y corrientes
- Project code: MAT2011-23627
- Project period: 01/01/2012 - 31/12/2014
- Lead researcher: Rubén Pérez Pérez
Feb 2013 - Jan 2014
Comunidad de Madrid
Researcher
Predoctoral contract funded by a research project
- Project name: Nanoobjetos: desde átomos hasta virus
- Project code: S2009-MAT-1467
- Project period: 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013
- Lead researcher: Rubén Pérez Pérez
- Coordinator: Julio Gómez Herrero
12 May - 20 Jun 2012
10 Oct - 10 Nov 2012
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Visiting researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(LBNL)
(Berkeley, California, USA)
(Berkeley, California, USA)
Visit to the group of Professor Mikel Salmeron to collaborate in common projects about the characterization of oxides and SAMs with SPM techniques
- Project name: Theoretical-experimental analysis of the microscopic mechanisms associated to the catalysis in oxide surfaces
- Program name: Inter-University Cooperation Projects UAM-Santander Bank with USA
- Project period: 01/06/2011 - 31/12/2012
- Lead researcher: Rubén Pérez Pérez
Jan 2012 - Feb 2013
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Researcher
Predoctoral contract funded by a research project
- Project name: Force for Future: Advanced Force Technology for Future Nanoelectronics and Nanomedicine (Consolider Program)
- Project code: CSD2010-00024
- Project period: 27/12/2010 - 26/12/2015
- Lead researcher (Group 5): Rubén Pérez Pérez
- Coordinator: Ricardo García García
Oct 2010 - Jan 2012
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Researcher
Predoctoral contract funded by a research project
- Project name: Atomic Scale Friction - Molecules in Motion (AFRI)
- Project code: MAT2008-02939-E/MAT FANAS-EUROCORES
- Project period: 01/02/2009 - 31/01/2012
- Lead researcher: Rubén Pérez Pérez
Courses and certifications
Mar 2017
SAS e-Course
Statistics I: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression, and Logistic Regression
(unfinished)
- Introduction to Statistics
- t-Tests and Analysis of Variance
- Linear Regression
- Linear Regression Diagnostics
- Categorical Data Analysis
Feb 2017
SAS e-Course
SAS programming 1: Essentials
Course certificate (24 hours)
- Getting Started with SAS Programming
- Working with SAS Programs
- Accessing Data
- Producing Detail Reports
- Formatting Data Values
- Reading SAS Data Sets
- Reading Spreadsheet and Database Data
- Reading Raw Data Files
- Manipulating Data
- Combining SAS Data Sets
- Creating Summary Reports
12 Feb - 20 Mar 2017
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland, USA
Mathematical Biostatistics II
Obtained score: 100%
- Hypothesis Testing
- Two Binomials
- Discrete Data Settings
- Techniques
- Programming in R
12 Feb - 20 Mar 2017
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland, USA
Mathematical Biostatistics I
Obtained score: 100%
- Introduction, Probability, Expectations and Random Vectors
- Conditional Probability, Bayes' Rule, Likelihood, Distributions and Asymptotics
- Confidence Intervals, Bootstrapping and Plotting
- Binomial Proportions and Logs
- Programming in R
15 Jan - 28 Feb 2017
University of California (San Diego)
California, USA
Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I)
Obtained score: 98% (with Honors)
- Frequent Words Problem in a single DNA string
- Clump Finding Problem
- Brute Force, Median String, Greedy Motif Search, Randomized Motif Search and Gibbs Sampler algorithms for motif finding in several DNA strings
- Programming in Python
20 Aug - 13 Nov 2016
Stanford University
California, USA
Machine Learning
Obtained score: 99.2%
- Supervised learning: linear and logistic regression, neural networks, support vector machines (SVM)
- Unsupervised learning: K-means algorithm, principal component analysis (PCA), anomaly detection
- Special applications and topics: recommender systems, large scale machine learning
- Advice on building a machine learning system: Bias/variance, regularization, deciding what to work on next: evaluation of learning algorithms, learning curves, error analysis, ceiling analysis
- Programming in Octave/Matlab
26 Oct 2016
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
IV Meeting Days between Researchers and Computer Professionals: Big Data in Biomedicine
- Machine Learning for Healthcare Analytics
- Cognitive Technology Applied to Oncology
- Bioinformatics applications and simulations of cancer evolution with HPC
2 Oct - 31 Oct 2016
University of California (San Diego)
California, USA
Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners
Obtained score: 99.4%
- Where in the Genome Does DNA Replication Begin?
- From Implanted Patterns to Regulatory Motifs
- How Rolling Dice Helps Us Find Regulatory Motifs
- Greedy, Randomized and Gibbs sampler motif search algorithms
- Programming in Python
Oct 2016
Codecademy
Python
Complete course (13 hours)
- Python Syntax
- Conditionals and Control Flow
- Lists & Dictionaries
- Functions
- Loops
- Classes
- File Input and Output
18 Jun - 30 Jul 2016
University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics
Obtained score: 100%
- Study types definition
- Data description
- Intuitive understanding of statistical analysis
- Hypothesis testing and confidence levels
- Appropriate test selection
- Analysis of the accuracy of results
25 Apr - 30 May 2016
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland, USA
HTML, CSS and Javascript for Web Developers
Obtained score: 99.3%
- Introduction to HTML5
- Introduction to CSS3
- Introduction to Javascript
- Practice with real cases
Apr 2016
Codecademy
SQL
Complete course (3 hours)
- Manipulation
- Queries
- Aggregate Functions
- Multiple Tables
Jun 2008
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK
Certificate in Advance English (CAE)
Certificate obtained in June 2008.
Since then, English has been my working language. All the bibliography and writing in science is in English. I have attended international conferences where my contributed talks were in this language and I even defended my thesis in English.
Since then, English has been my working language. All the bibliography and writing in science is in English. I have attended international conferences where my contributed talks were in this language and I even defended my thesis in English.
Programming
Numerical calculations
Web development
Additionally
- Cluster computing (experience with PRACE and RES supercomputers)
- Basic MPI parallelization skills
- Code profiling for performance analysis
Other skills
Graphical visualization
80
Jmol/VMD/Pymol
Molecular structure visualization
95
Gnuplot
Publication-quality graphics
80
Gimp
Raster graphics editor
85
LaTeX
Scientific writing
Languages
Additionally
- Office software
- OS: Windows & Linux advanced user
- Bibliograpy databases search (PubMed, ISI WoK)
- Social media (blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
- Driving license from 2005