Fellows | Barcelona Collaboratorium

Research Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

In my group, we employ tools from theoretical physics to develop mathematical models that help answer questions in biology. In particular, we are interested in understanding the physical principles be...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4275-173X

Ansgar Jordan

I develop mathematical models for epigenetic aging at the single-cell level which can be used to predict the onset of disease due to clonal expansion.

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9365-1614

Artemy Kolchinsky

Internal Associate Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

I study information processing in various physical and biological complex systems using techniques from information theory, statistical physics, and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Recently I have been...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-9208

Atsuko Sato

Past Fellows, Ochanomizu University

We aim to make mathematical predictions of development in diverse animal models under changing environment by combining embryological as well as molecular experiments, machine learning and mathematica...

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-2854

Ben Lehner (Collaboratorium co-chair)

Past Fellows, University of Graz

We combine massively parallel perturbation experiments with modelling and machine learning to understand, predict and engineer the fundamental sequence-to-activity encoding functions of molecular biol...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8817-1124

Bernat Corominas-Murtra

We aim to contribute to the theoretical understanding of how biological systems are able to increase and sustain their complexity along time and space, with a special emphasis in the early development...

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-98

David Oriola

External Associate Fellow, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

From cells to organisms, living systems are inherently multiscale. To understand the biophysical principles of living systems across scales, my group uses tools from soft matter, nonlinear and out-of...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8356-7832

Diego Carmona Campos

Visitor Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

I am interested in combining theoretical approximations with machine learning algorithms to understand the emergence of complex behaviours in living systems, particularly at the frontier between livin...

Eric Latorre

Senior Fellow, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM)

This interdisciplinary research team combines mathematical modeling with experimental design to investigate aging mechanisms and their connection to age-related diseases.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2645-4292

Eric Macwan

Research Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

My research focuses on modeling age-related methylation stability across species. I am developing quantitative measures to characterize these dynamics. I am a PhD candidate at the Centre for Genomic R...

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0238-0127

Ezequiel Galpern

Research Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

My research focuses on studying the relationship between protein evolution, folding and function.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-3985

Gaudenz Danuser

External Associate Fellow, Institute of Human Biology

Gaudenz Danuser leads computational biology efforts focusing on organoid systems biology. His work integrates computational and experimental methods to unravel cellular regulation during organoid deve...

Giorgio Ravanelli

Past Fellows, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

My research interests focus on the biophysical basis of transcription regulation in eukaryotic systems. Specifically, I am interested in investigating the limits of equilibrium phenomena and the infor...

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9284-2177

James Malone

Past Fellows, University of Oxford

My research focuses on using computational models to understand how development affects evolutionary outcomes for morphological traits. Currently, I am a PhD student at the University of Oxford under ...

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6243-3218

James Sharpe (Collaboratorium Co-Chair)

Senior Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

The Sharpe group brings together an interdisciplinary team of biologists, physicists and computer scientists to build multi-scale computer simulations of a paradigm of organogenesis – mammalian limb d...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1434-9743

Jeremy Gunawardena

We study learning and information processing in cells using both theory and experiments.

https://orcid.org/0002-7280-1152

Jonathan Frazer

Senior Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Together with Mafalda Dias, I lead the Probabilistic Machine Learning and Genomics Group at the CRG, where our group develops models of the effect of genetic variation on phenotype. We are especially ...

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-6484

Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

The goal of the Garcia-Ojalvo lab (Dynamic Systems Biology, UPF) is to understand how the behaviour of living systems (specifically cells and tissues) emerges from the interactions among their compone...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3716-7520

Julia Zeitlinger

Past Fellows, Stowers Institute

Julia Zeitlinger is a development and computational biologist and a Principal Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research (Missouri, US). The Zeitlinger Lab focuses on how DNA sequence...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5172-3335

Konstantina Poumpouridou

Research Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

Kristina Haase

Research Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

The Haase Group combines experimental and computational means to understand the complex processes of vascular development and remodeling in human tissue-specific models. Computational fluid dynamics s...

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3321-4286

Kye Hunter

My research is in the theoretical and computational modeling of evolution. Under the supervision of Dr. Nora Martin, I am currently studying the structure of genotype-phenotype and genotype-fitness ma...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7301-5444

Leander Goldbach

Past Fellows, University of Zurich

I am trying to understand how fundamental constraints at the molecular scale influence large-scale evolutionary dynamics in living systems using computational models and theory.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3816-1833

Luis Serrano

In our group we are aiming at a quantitative understanding of biological systems to an extent that one is able to predict systemic features and with the hope to rational design and modify their behavi...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-1392

Mafalda Dias

Research Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

We are interested in the relationship between evolution, biological sequences, and molecular phenotype. We develop probabilistic modelling approaches to understand the effect of genetic variation. ...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1804-8542

Manuela Giraud

Under the supervision of Dr. Nora Martin I am building computational models of genotype-phenotype maps and evolution. Although the effect of selection is widely studied, there remains to understand th...

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6103-4287

Marcos Nahmad

Past Fellows, Cinvestav

Marcos Nahmad is group leader in the Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neurosciences at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) in Mexico City. His group works on fundamental ...

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5608

Martí Planasdemunt-Hospital

External Associate Fellow, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

I use minimal biophysical models to gain insight into the mechanics of biological systems across scales, from tissues to subcellular structures.

https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1172-1868

Meike Wortel

Sabbatical Fellow, University of Amsterdam

I use computational methods to study how eco-evolutionary feedback, arising from antibiotic degradation and metabolic interactions, affect evolutionary dynamics and predictability.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3191-2710

Miquel Anglada-Girotto

, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

I model transcriptional regulation in cis and trans to improve rare disease diagnosis and design new treatments.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1885-8649

Mirko Francesconi

Visitor Fellow, Laboratoire de Biologie et Modélisation de la Cellule - ENS de Lyon

Why are individuals different?I address this question using a quantitative systematic approach: I collect, integrate and analyze large-scale -omics especially transcriptomic data, including at single-...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8702-0877

Nicholas Stroustrup

Independent Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

Aging occurs at multiple spatial scales--functional declines visible in molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs and organisms that ultimately cause poor health and death. My research group studi...

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9530-7301

Nora Martin

Biological complexity at all levels, from single molecules to organisms, is a product of evolution. Therefore, quantitative and predictive models of evolution could have applications for a range of bi...

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-0985

Nuria Conde

Sabbatical Fellow, University of Amsterdam

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5766-309X

Pietro Gadaleta

I study how ecological interactions shape bacterial population dynamics, focusing on antibiotic resistance evolution and microbiome dynamics. My research explores how bacteria interact with each other...

Ricard Solé

Senior Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

I am ICREA research professor (the Catalan Institute for research and Advanced Studies) currently working at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where I'm the head of the Complex Systems Lab located at the ...

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-1008

Rob Jelier

Sabbatical Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)

I am an associate professor in the Bioengineering Faculty at KU Leuven. My research combines computational and experimental approaches, with a focus on genetics and embryonic development. In genetics...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6395-1407

Rosa Martinez Corral

Independent Fellow, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

What are the general principles that govern the emergence of life-enabling behaviour from a collection of (dead) molecules? How can we understand how a given behaviour emerges, such that we can design...

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3600-3601

Sotiris Samatas

Guided by experimental results, I aim to use agent-based simulations including cell differentiation and mechanics to simulate how local cell interactions can give rise to polarized patterning and the ...

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8431-4342

Tim Liebisch

External Associate Fellow, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM)

Using center-based models I aim to contribute towards the understanding of the complex multicellular interactions shaping tissues and organs. My focus is on developing a data driven model towards limb...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-2557

Tomás Alarcón

Bridging scales in biological systems. My aim is to develop computational and mathematical methods that allow us to understand biological behaviour as an emergent property of complex, multiscale pheno...

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-3676

Victor Paton

My project focuses on understanding gene regulation in the developing limb by leveraging 2D and 3D data processing, prior knowledge, AI, and mathematical models.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6074-6897

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