JORDI GARCIA-OJALVO
CV
PARTICIPANT AT:
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY.
FROM STANDARD
BIOLOGICAL PARTS TO
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
September, 17th-18th, 2015, Barcelona
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Director of the Dynamical Systems Biology laboratory,
Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
Spain"
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo obtained his PhD in statistical physics at the University of Barcelona in
1995. He did postdoctoral work at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1996,
working on laser dynamics, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1998 as an
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, studying noise effects in excitable media. He was IGERT
Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 2003, at which time he
began working in the field of systems biology. In 2008 he became Full Professor at the
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, where he had been teaching applied physics since
1991. He is Visiting Research Associate in Biology at the California Institute of Technology
since 2006, and joined the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in October 2012.