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Mauricio Barahona obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics (Dynamical Systems) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Steve Strogatz. His doctoral thesis was co-advised by Mehran Kardar from the Physics Department and Terry Orlando from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, focusing on the spatio-temporal dynamics of networks of Josephson junctions. In parallel with his PhD work, Barahona developed methods for nonlinear data analysis based on dynamical embeddings and time series analysis. He was awarded fellowships to conduct postdoctoral research at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology. At Stanford, he worked with Mac Beasley on the properties of oscillator synchronization and applications for pattern detection. At Caltech, he collaborated with John Doyle from the Department of Control and Dynamical Systems on establishing rigorous bounds of model reduction techniques for dynamical systems. Barahona joined the newly formed Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London as a Lecturer in 2001 and became a Reader in Biomathematics in 2004. In 2011, he transitioned to the Department of Mathematics as the Chair of Biomathematics and has been the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Mathematics Precision Healthcare since 2016.
Stanford University • Stanford, United States
Conducted research on oscillator synchronization and pattern detection.
California Institute of Technology • Pasadena, United States
Collaborated on the rigorous bounds of model reduction techniques for dynamical systems.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.