Pablo Gallarta Sáenz

Centre: Dpto. Física de la materia condensada/IUI BIFI
Institution: University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
Position: PhD Student
E-mail: pgallarta@unizar.es
Phone: 976762989
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Personal statement
I am Pablo Gallarta, PhD student of the Physics Program at the University of Zaragoza, with the title “Reaction-diffusion-evolution processes in complex systems”, under the supervision of Jesús Gómez Gardeñes. After finishing my degree in Physics, I joined the GOTHAM group, participating in its different research lines, particularly in the field of social and ecological dynamics. I am an active member of BIFI since 2023.

Researcher profile identity
Currently, I am an R1 level researcher. The main research topic of my thesis is theoretical ecology, with the aim of trying to understand what is the impact of structural changes that occur in ecosystems in the transmission of diseases between animal species and how it can affect the emergence of new zoonotic diseases. In addition, I am also involved in a line of research that studies, through an agent-based model, how innovations (whether cultural or technological) spread within a society represented by a complex network.

Why my research is important
The availability of mathematical models and tools to study disease transmission can be very useful for implementing different measures without the need for extensive field studies, which are usually resource-intensive. Furthermore, the exploration of different ecological scenarios from a computational point of view gives a great advantage when trying to predict or understand the behavior of ecosystems, since the study is carried out under a controlled environment from which results can be easily transferred to real situations.

Know more about me and my research
– https://bifi.es/es/fisica/
– Twitter/X: @GallartaSPablo
– BlueSky: @gallartaspablo.bsky.social