Teaching and supervision

Available BEng, MEng/MSc, and PhD thesis projects at the University of VIGO

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!

Supervised PhD theses:

Currently co-supervising the PhD thesis of Gemma Massonis Feixas (jointly with Julio R. Banga, IIM-CSIC).

Supervised Master theses (TFMs):

• "Benchmarking de herramientas de análisis de observabilidad e identificabilidad estructural" (English title: "Benchmarking tools for analysing structural identifiability and observability"), by Xabier Rey Barreiro. Master in Industrial Mathematics (M2i). Thesis co-supervised by José Ramón Fernández García (Universidade de Vigo).

• "Computational acceleration of the observability and structural identifiability toolbox STRIKE-GOLDD", by Sandra Díaz Seoane. Master in Industrial Mathematics (M2i). Thesis co-supervised by José Durany Castrillo (Universidade de Vigo).

• "Observabilidad e identificabilidad: simetrías de Lie" (English title: "Observability and identifiability: Lie symmetries"), by Gemma Massonis Feixas. Master in Industrial Mathematics (M2i). Thesis co-supervised by Manuel Carretero Cerrajero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

• "Caracterización de la observabilidad e identificabilidad estructural en el modelado de sistemas dinámicos de forma computacional" (English title: "Computational characterization of structural identifiability and observability in dynamical systems modelling"), by Nerea Martínez López. Master in Industrial Mathematics (M2i). Thesis co-supervised by José Durany Castrillo (Universidade de Vigo).

Supervised B. Eng. theses (TFGs):

• "Implementación en Python de una toolbox de Matlab" (English title: "Python implementation of a Matlab toolbox"), by David Rey Rostro.

• "Identificación e control dun bioproceso de produción de proteínas mediante unha comunidade microbiana" (English title: "Identification and control of a protein production bioprocess by a microbial community"), by Nuria Martínez Brenlla.

• "O problema da mochila: solución mediante algoritmos de optimización" (English title: "The knapsack problem: solution with optimization algorithms"), by Pablo Fernández Fernández. Co-supervised by Antonio Barreiro Blas.

Teaching experience:

• March - May 2022: “Control Engineering I” (44 hours), 3th year BEng Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering (University of Vigo)

• Oct 2021 - Jan 2022: “Foundations of Automation” (12 hours), adaptation course for BEng in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering (University of Vigo)

• Oct 2021: “Control Engineering II” (24 hours), 4th year BEng Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering (University of Vigo)

• March 2021: “Control Engineering I” (7 hours), 3th year BEng Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering (University of Vigo)

• Nov 21–22 2017: “Identifiability and Uncertainty Quantification” (1.5 hours), lecture in the internal workshop of the H2020 project CanPathPro, Oslo, Norway

• Sep 26–30 2016: “Kinetic Model Building in Biological Systems Engineering” (5 hours), training school of the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network SyMBioSys consortium (SyMBioSys), Vigo, Spain

• Sep 2015: “Network Inference” (3 hours), lecture in the CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Course Bio-neuroinformatics for the Neuroscientist (FENS), Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France

• Apr 2015: “Systems Biology” (5 hours), subject of the Master in Biological Sciences (University of Vigo)

• May 12–15, 2014: Two sessions at the workshop “The Systems Biology Modelling Cycle” (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK

• Feb 2012 – Jun, 2012: “Fundamentals of Automatic Control” (42 hours), 2nd year Mechanical Engineering (University of Vigo)

• Sep 2010 – Jan, 2011: “Automatic Control Systems” (75 hours), 4th year Electrical Engineering (University of Vigo)