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Currently I'm working with Dr. Dr. Dante Chialvo (Northwestern University, USA) in colaboration with Dr. Daniel Fraiman (UdeSA) in the analysis of Resting State Networks (RSNs) obtained in Functional Magnetic Resonance (fMRI) experiments using Statistical Mechanics tools.
In this field we work with Dr. Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo in the analysis of models of neurons coupled and driven by noise.
One of the topics we are interested is in the modelling of small neural circuits, like
for example, the pitch detection of a complex sound . On the other way, we are also interested in more theoretical aspects of this problem, like the role of the chemical synapses in the response of a network of neurons driven by noise
Complex Systems
Complex Networks, Small World Networks, Scale Free Networks: their characteristic,
the analysis of their topology, the formation of local and global structures, the role of
them in the propagation of the information, etc are same of the topics we are dealing
with Dr. Claudio Dorso and Dr. Javier Martín Buldú from Universidad del Rey Juan Carlos en Madrid, Spain.
Modelling Genetic Networks
Another topic of interest is the modelling of genetic networks, from bilding
networks from data gene expression to modelling pathways or simple genetic circuits.
Critical Phenomena
The study of fragmentation like a possible critical phenomena was one of the topics
of my PhD thesis (available in pdf here).
The posibility of physically distant phenomena can be described in a similar way in the
neighborhood of the critical point (in terms of the critical exponents), since a thermodynamics
point of view, as well as the development of tools to obtain the critical exponents in finite
systems was one of the subjetcs studied in my PhD Thesis.