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Mariano Vazquez

Co-Founder and CT/SO at ELEM Biotech, Co-Leader of the Alya Dev Team

MV is co-founder and CTO/CSO of the ELEM Biotech (The Virtual Humans Factory), a spinoff company of the Spanish Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), founded with the goal of speeding-up the technology transfer of BSC modelling technology for he biomedical domain, in particular, the code Alya. He is also one of the two leaders of the Alya Development Team at the BSC, with more than 70 scientists and developers.

Graduated in Physical Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1993, he completed his bachelor's thesis on Chaos in Dynamical Systems. Doctor in Physical Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain, in 1999, he completed his doctoral thesis in Computational Fluid Mechanics (on numerical schemes for stabilization of compressible flow equations for finite elements). He has carried out post-doctoral stays at the Pole Scientifique Univ. Paris VI / Dassault Aviation (in multigrid for compressible and incompressible turbulent flow, funded by a Marie-Curie scholarship from the EC) and at INRIA Sophia Antipolis (shape optimization using the adjoint method), both in France, for 3 years. He was a consultant for the company Gridsystems (grid computing) in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) and a lecturer at the University of Girona (Spain). Since 2012 he has been a senior scientist at the CSIC, on leave since July 2018, when he co-founded ELEM. In 2004, his scientific interests experienced the irresistible grasp of computational biomedicine until this day (and counting).

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