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Professor Blanca Rodriguez is the Head of the Computational Biology and Health Informatics Theme at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. She completed her MSc and PhD in Engineering at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, and later pursued postdoctoral research at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Since joining Oxford in 2007, she has raised over £40 million as a principal co-investigator and has been instrumental in leading the Computational Cardiovascular Science team. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary methodologies to accelerate therapy development while replacing animal testing, making significant contributions to the Digital Twin vision in precision medicine and in Silico Trials for therapy testing. With a commitment to training in modeling and simulation, she emphasizes the importance of verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification in her work, fostering effective collaborations across disciplines. An active speaker at scientific and public events, she also promotes a healthy lifestyle and enjoys spending time with her children, swimming, yoga, and traveling.
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