Hello Everyone! Welcome to my humble corner of the digital world. My name is Carlos, I am a Cambridge U.K. based physicist, and in this site I post content related to my scientific interests, as well as some fun things I would like to share. Below is a brief overview of my career so far. You can also check out my ORCID and Linkedin profiles.
I got my Bachelor’s degree from UNAM in Mexico City, working on stochastic models of city-size distributions in space and time.
I got my PhD from the University of Manchester in the U.K. under the supervision of Prof. Alan J. McKane. I worked on evolution of food-web structures and stochastic population dynamics in space and time.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) Applied Physics Department, working with Prof. Blas Echeberria. During this post, I worked on detailed mathematical models and numerical simulations of calcium cycling in human atrial cells and the origin of cardiac arrhythmias.
Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA (Madrid, Spain). As part Prof. Susanna Manrubia’s research group I carried out research related to the topology induced in the space of phenotypes by genotype-phenotype mappings for the case of RNA molecules.
University of Cambridge - Department of Plant Sciences (Cambridge U.K). As part of Prof. Beverley Glover’s Evolution and Development group, I worked on the mechanical origins of petal epidermal cells patterns.
University of Cambridge - Sainsbury Laboratory (Cambridge U.K.). Here working with Francois Nèdelec, I carried out investigations of the dynamical origins of order-disorder transitions in the organization of the filaments composing the plant cortex.
In all these posts, I worked on finding the mechanisms underlying a certain phenomena. I applied the scientific method to postulate a set of hypotheses, abstract these hypotheses into mathematical models, then solved the models and studied the solutions to make predictions.
I have also worked in Bioinformatics at TSL in Norwich U.K. and as a scientific programmer at The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge. In my spare time I work on robots, data visualisation, computer vision, AI and automation.