People

Andrea Acevedo Lipes

Associate Professor - ANCORA
Machine learning applied to the automatic recognition of blood cells.

Oriol Alís González

Researcher - BIOMEC
Aerospace Engineer with a passion towards aircraft and the skies, but also towards engineering itself.

Joan F. Alonso Lopez

Assistant Professor - BIOART(SHP)
PhD. Serra Húnter Fellow. Research in multichannel EMG & EEG for rehabilitation & therapy.

Josep Amat i Girbau

Emeritus Professor - GRINS
Research in the field of surgical robotics. CSO of Rob Surgical Systems, UPC spin-off.

Noelia Aparicio Bádenas

Manager - BBT
Broad experience in Project Management, Communication and Events’ organization.

Joan Aranda López

Associate Professor - GRINS
Robotics, computer vision and their medical application.

Alejandro Bachiller Matarranz

Assistant Professor - BIOART
Biomedical signal processing focused on pathologic and physiologic brain signals and neuroimage.

Raul Benítez Iglesias

Associate Professor - ANCORA
Pattern Recognition in biomedical images.

Mar Bonany Mariñosa

PhD Student - BBT
Biomedical Scientist with a M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology (UB), and current PhD candidate in BBT.

Ramon Bragós Badia

Associate Professor - IEB
Biomedical Engineering. Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy. Engineering Education.

Judit Buxadera Palomero

Technician - BBT
PhD in Science and Engineering of Materials. Chemical, physical and biological analysis of biomaterials.

Anna Camp Brunes

Researcher - DRM
Research in dosimetry and radiation protection focused on interventional radiology staff.

Cristina Canal Barnils

Associate Professor - BBT
Biomedical applications of cold plasmas, current focus on cancer therapy with plasmas + biomaterials.

Alicia Casals Gelpí

Full Professor - GRINS
Professor at UPC. Research in surgical, assistance and rehabilitation robotics.

Massimo Cenciarini

PostDoc Researcher - BIOMEC
Research on exoskeletons for impaired gait. Expertise: system ID and modeling of human motion.

Víctor Chausse Calvet

PhD Student - BBT
Physics Engineer with a Master's Degree in Materials Science.

Mireia Claramunt Molet

PhD Student - BIOMEC
Biomechanical area / PhD student and adjunct lecturer.

Daniel Clos Costa

Assistant Professor - BIOMEC
Mechanical design. Biomechanical assistive devices.

Laura C. Córdoba Román

PostDoc Researcher - BBT
Surface functionalization of biodegradable metals for cardiovascular applications.

Jesús De Miguel Fernández

PhD Student - BIOMEC
Focused on control algorithms of lower limb exoskeletons for stroke individuals.

Laura del Mazo Barbara

PhD Student - BBT
PhD student - Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Programme.

Maria A. Duch Guillen

Research Director - DRM
Researcher and Head of the Radiological Protection Service of the UPC.

Montserrat Español Pons

Assistant Professor - BBT
Calcium phosphates: for bone regeneration, as antimicrobial properties and for cancer treatment.

Albert Espona Noguera

Researcher - BBT
Cold Atmospheric Plasma in combination with Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications.

Maria Farahi

PhD Student - GRINS
Biomedical Engineering.

Míriam Febrer Nafría

PhD Student - BIOMEC
Investigates on the prediction of human movement using optimal control.

Mireya Fernández Chimeno

Associate Professor - IEB
Research areas: medical instrumentation for e-health, EMC for medical devices and environments.

Josep Fernández Ruzafa

Associate Professor - GRINS
Research areas: computer vision, robotics, telerobotics and telelaboratories.

Martina Finocchiaro

PhD Student - GRINS (MSCA-IF)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD Scholar on biomedical engineering with focus on medical robotics.

Jordi Fonollosa Magriñà

Associate Professor - B2SLab
Human activity monitoring, Chemical sensors, Machine Learning, ECG signals.

Josep M. Font Llagunes

Full Professor - BIOMEC
Full Professor and Head of the Biomechanical Engineering Lab. Co-founder and CSO at ABLE Human Motion.

Manel Frigola Bourlon

Associate Professor - GRINS
PhD in Computer Science. Research in areas of Computer Vision and Medical Robotics.

Antonio Galicia Balboa

Research Support Technician
Incubation & Acceleration Program for projects and startups in the field of the health technologies.

Miguel A. García Gonzalez

Associate Professor - IEB
PhD in Electronic Engineering. Research focus: time series signal processing.

Claudia García Mintegui

PhD Student - BBT
Research on biodegradable metals for cardiovascular applications.

José M. García Torres

Assistant Professor - BBT
Electrochemistry; flexible composites materials; organic electronics.

Jon Garrido Aguirre

PhD Student - B2SLAB
Working in the design and development of data analysis and visualization in Share4Rare (EU Project).

Jessyca Gil Rojas

PhD Student - IEB
Biomedical Engineer, in the area of e-Health.

Maria P. Ginebra Molins

Full Professor - BBT
Full professor and Head of the Group of Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering.

Mercè Ginjaume Egido

Researcher - DRM
PhD in Physics from UAB. Senior researcher and head of the Calibration and Dosimetry Lab at UPC.

Pedro Gomis Román

Associate Professor - B2SLab
Mentoring biomedical engineering and working with cardiac signals using advanced and AI techniques.

Manel González Piñero

Innovation Manager
Innovation manager (CREB) & Adjunct prof. Innovation and Cultural Management (Economics School, UB).

Jordi Guillem Martí

PostDoc Researcher - BBT
Design of cell instructive biomolecules for improving the bioactivity of biomaterials.

Osnat Hakimi

Collaborator - BBT (MSCA-IF)
Currently developing the open biomaterials database, using text mining (DEBBIE).

Inès Hamouda

PhD Student - BBT
Combination between atmospheric pressure plasma jets and polymers for applications in medicine.

Albert Hernansanz Prats

PostDoc Researcher - GRINS
PhD researcher at CREB UPC, interested in Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery teleoperation.

Mislav Jordanic

PostDoc Researcher - BIOART
Researcher at the BIOsignal Analysis for Rehabilitation and Therapy Research Group (BIOART).

Samir Kanaan Izquierdo

Assistant Professor - B2SLab
Teaching: programming, AI, mobile development. Research: machine learning, biomedical engineering.

Joanna M. Konka

PhD Student - BBT
Biomimetic hydroxyapatite, 3D printing, bone regeneration, mimicking natural bone.

Cédric Labay

PostDoc Researcher- BBT
Postdoc researcher in Plasma Medicine in Biomaterials, Biomechanics & Tissue Engineering Group.

Joan Lobo Prat

PostDoc Researcher - BIOMEC
Biomechatronics.

Irene Lodoso Torrecilla

PostDoc Researcher - BBT
Researcher in biomaterials for bone regeneration (calcium phosphate cements). Focus in 3D printing.

Ángela López del Río

PhD Student - B2SLab
Applying deep learning to drug discovery in silico.

Enrico Manzini

Technician - B2SLab
Working on models for prediction of Diabetes type 2 evolution and asthma-type crisis.

Miquel A. Mañanas Villanueva

Associate Professor - BIOART
Founder and leader of BIOART Group composed of engineers and physicians working on R+I.

Maria Maqueda González

PhD Student - B2SLAB
Research area focused on applying machine learning techniques to biological data.

Xavier Marimon Serra

PhD Student - ANCORA
Development of new biomarkers to study the heart rhythm at the cellular level.

Carles Mas Moruno

Researcher - BBT (RYC)
Ramon y Cajal researcher and Principal Investigator at the UPC - Peptides and biomaterials.

Christian Mata Miquel

PostDoc - ANCORA
Computer Vision, Medical imaging, Image processing, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science.

Miguel Mateu Sanz

PhD Student - BBT
Cold atmospheric plasma, bone cancer, osteosarcoma, bone cancer modelling.

Carolina Migliorelli Falcone

PostDoc Researcher - BIOART
Researcher in neurological signal and images at BIOART Lab.

Meritxell Molmeneu Trias

Technician - BBT
Head of BBT laboratory. Associate Professor. Technology transfer research.

Imanol Morata

PhD Student - B2SLab
Mathematician (B.Sc, M.Sc.) and Data Scientist.

Carlos Morata Nuñez

Associate Professor - GRINS
R&D Engineer.

Luis M. Muñoz Morgado

Assistant Professor - GRINS
Robotics, Teleoperation, Human-Robot interaction, Human-Machine interfaces.

Marien C. Narvaez Morata

PhD Student - GRINS
Lower Limb Rehabilitation, Gait pattern monitoring using instrumented forearm crutches.

Lexa Nescolarde Selva

Associate Professor - IEB
Working on the medical applications of electrical bioimpedance measures since 1997.

Anna Nicolau Torra

Manager - BIOART
Manage the technology transfer and innovation activities within the BIOART group.

Lluis Oliver Cervelló

PhD Student - BBT
Peptides - functionalization - differentiation MSCs - titanium.

Rosa Pàmies Vilà

Associate Professor - BIOMEC
Biomechanics, Dynamic simulation, foot‐ground contact modelling, pediction of human movement.

Marta Pegueroles Neyra

Associate Professor - BBT
Cardiovascular stents, bioresorbable materials, PLLA, Zn alloys, 3D printing, functionalization.

Albert Peiret Giménez

PostDoc Researcher - BIOMEC
Simulation of biomechanical models for impaired walking with assistive device.

Alexandre Perera Lluna

Associate Professor - B2SLab
Head of CREB, B2SLab group Leder, research on health data science.

Miquel Punset Fusté

Researcher - BBT
Biomaterials, Surf. treatments and coatings, Biomedical & Forensic Eng., Medical implants.

Juan J. Ramos Castro

Associate Professor - IEB
Design of ultra low noise electronic biomedical measurement systems.

Michael Ray Epke

PhD Student - BIOMEC
The mechanical design and development of a lower limb exoskeleton to assist stroke patients.

Santiago Raymond Llorens

PhD Student - BBT
Industrial (UPC) and materials (UPC-EEIGM) engineer. Industrial PhD student at Mimetis Biomaterials.

Pere Riu Costa

Full Professor - IEB
Full Professor at UPC Electronics Department. Vice-president of ISEBI. Member of COMAR (IEEE-EMBS).

José Rodellar Benedé

Full Professor - ANCORA
Machine learning and application to artificial recognition of blood cells in hematological diseases.

Antonio Rodríguez Fernández

PhD Student - BIOMEC
Biomedical Engineer.

Daniel Rodríguez Rius

Associate Professor - BBT
Associate Professor at BBT, EEBE-UPC. Research interests: new bioactive surfaces; nanotechnology.

Sergio Romero Lafuente

Associate Professor - BIOART
Engineer ... researcher ... dreamer ...

Xavier Rosell Ferrer

Full Professor - IEB
Research on new measurement methods in biotechnology, medicine and sports based on bioimpedance.

Elisa Rupérez de Gracia

Researcher - BBT
Development of bioactive and antibacterial metal porous structures for orthopedic applications.

Meritxell Sanchez Hervas

Technician - BBT
Lab Technician with experience in cell culture, molecular biology, biochemistry and microbiology.

Narcís Sayols Baixeras

PhD Student - GRINS
Double degree in Mathematics and Telecommunication Engineering in the CFIS program of the UPC.

Josep Sempau Roma

Associate Professor- DRM
Radiation transport physics and Monte Carlo simulation of the transport process.

Leidy Y. Serna Higuita

PostDoc Researcher - BIOART
Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering.

Pol Solà de los Santos

PhD Student - B2SLab
Study and generation of processing and quality control tools for metabolomics.

Xavier Solé Martí

PhD Student - BBT
Research on the effects of cold plasmas on composite hydrogel – calcium phosphate biomaterials.

Isidre Solé Ramon

Consultant - BIOART
Consulting architecture and industrialization of medical products. Electronic engineer, specialized in high speed digital designs and ISO-13485 certification.

Francesco Tampieri

PostDoc Researcher - BBT
Post doctoral researcher on plasma chemistry.

Anna Torras González

Technician - DRM
Research in dosimetry and radiation protection & Lab. technician of radiation devices calibration.

Ana Tost Abadias

PhD Student - BIOART
Takes part of the research group BIOART in which she develops her PhD studying Rett Syndrome disease.

Montserrat Vallverdú Ferrer

Researcher - B2SLab
Nonlinear-dynamics analysis of physiological systems and characterization of their signals.