Alejandro F. Villaverde
I am a Ramón y Cajal research fellow at the Department of Systems Engineering and Control of the Universidade de Vigo, in Galicia, Spain. I am also affiliated (ad honorem) with CITMAga, the Galician Center for Mathematical Research and Technology.
I am currently a member of the Nonlinear Control Group, within which I lead a small subgroup that works in Biosystems Identification, Control and Optimization (BICO). I am also involved in teaching and supervision of students at all university levels, so if you would like to do your BEng thesis ("TFG"), MEng/MSc thesis ("TFM"), or PhD thesis ("tese de doutoramento") on a topic related to my research interests, please contact me. Lastly, I am an academic editor at PLOS ONE.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral research associate with Julio Banga (Bioprocess Engineering Group, IIM-CSIC; currently at the Computational Biology Lab @ MBG-CSIC) in two different periods: 2009-2015 and 2016-2020. In the first one I worked on several systems biology projects, and collaborated with the late John Ross (Stanford), whose lab I visited in two occasions. In the second one I worked on the CanPathPro H2020 project, building a computational platform for predictive cancer modelling. In 2015-2016 I was an I2C fellow, funded by the Xunta de Galicia and working at the universities of Minho (BioSystems group) and Oxford (SySoS group). Prior to that (2005-2009) I was an FPI fellow at the Universidade de Vigo, where I pursued a PhD in systems and control engineering under the supervision of Antonio Barreiro. During this period I spent short stays at the universities of Groningen, with Arjan van der Schaft, and MIT, with Neville Hogan.
Further information can be found in my detailed CV