Faculty Member

Call: +34 976 76 2963

Email: epueyo@unizar.es

Address: Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018, Zaragoza (Spain) (Spain)

ABOUT ME

Esther Pueyo received the M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in 1999. During 2000, she was a research student at the Department of Mathematics, University of Zaragoza, where she developed a minor thesis in the field of Calculus, supervised by Prof. José Garay. In 2001 she started her Ph.D. studies in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Zaragoza under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Laguna, with a grant supported by the Spanish government. Her Ph.D. studies aimed at developing signal processing techniques applied to the electrocardiogram with the purpose of investigating conditions predisposing to suffer cardiac arrhythmias. During that time, she also worked as an Assistant Professor of Signal Processing at the Department of Electronic Engineering and Communications and she was a visiting scholar at research centers in Portugal, Argentina and UK, with long research visits at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK, where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Marek Malik.

After finishing her PhD in December 2006, she moved to the University of Oxford, UK (2007-2009) to get postdoctoral training in computational modeling and simulation of cardiac electrophysiology. She worked with Dr. Blanca Rodríguez and Prof. Kevin Burrage in the construction of cell and tissue models to investigate cardiac pathologies and drug-induced effects associated with increased arrhythmic risk. Most of the studies conducted during her postdoctoral period involved collaborations with experts in cardiology and experimental physiology, mainly from Hungary, UK and Sweden.

In January 2011 she was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. During 2012-2015 she worked as Senior Researcher at the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) after having been awarded with a ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Senior Research fellowship by the Spanish government. At the University of Zaragoza and CIBER-BBN, she works with a group of postdoctoral researchers and PhD, MSc and undergraduate students in the development of methodologies for the analysis of simulated, experimental and clinical data. By combining ECG signal processing and electrophysiological modeling and simulation tools, her current research aims at shedding light on the mechanisms and manifestations of cardiac arrhythmias at scales ranging from cellular ion channels to the electrocardiogram and on the role of important modulators such as the Autonomic Nervous System.

Since October 2015 she is back to her Associate Professor position at the University of Zaragoza. She has participated as Principal Investigator and as Collaborator in different international, European, national and regional research projects. She is currently PI of the ERC Starting Grant project MODELAGE, funded with 1.5 M€, in which a systems biology approach is used to investigate the aging of the human heart.

PUBLICATIONS
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2008

Conferences

Pueyo, E; Laguna, P; Rodríguez, B

Mechanisms of ventricular heart rate adaptation as an indicator of arrhythmic risk Conference

Heart Rhythm, 29th Annual Scientific Sessions, 2008.

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2007

Journal Articles

Pueyo, E; Laciar, E; Anzuola, E; Laguna, P; Jané, R

QRS slopes for assessment of myocardial damage in chronic chagasic patients Journal Article

In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 90, no. 012077, 2007.

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Conferences

Pueyo, E; Anzuola, E; Laciar, E; Laguna, P; Jané, R

Assessment of Myocardial Damage in Chronic Chagasic Patients using QRS Slopes Conference

Computers in Cardiology, 2007.

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Simón, F; Laguna, P; Pueyo, E

Study of the Dynamic Relationship between T Wave Morphology and Heart Rate during Ischemia Conference

Computers in Cardiology, 2007.

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Pueyo, E; Malik, M; Laguna, P

Dynamic Repolarization Assessment and Arrhythmic Risk Stratification Conference

11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering and Computing 2007, 2007.

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Pueyo, E; Laciar, E; Anzuola, E; Laguna, P; Jané, R

Pendientes del QRS para la evaluación del daño miocárdico en pacientes chagásicos crónicos Conference

Comunicaciones del XVI Congreso Sociedad Argentina de Bioingeniería, San Juan, Argentina, 2007.

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2006

Journal Articles

Almeida, R; Gouveia, S; Rocha, A P; Pueyo, E; Martínez, J P; Laguna, P

QT variability and HRV interactions in ECG: Quantification and Reliability Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1317-1329, 2006.

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PhD Theses

Pueyo, E

Detección de heterogeneidades en la depolarización y repolarización cardiacas a partir del electrocardiograma como mejora en la predicción del riesgo frente a arritmias PhD Thesis

2006.

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2005

Conferences

Pueyo, E; Arcineaga, A; Laguna, P

High-Frequency Signature of the QRS Complex across Ischemia in PTCA Recordings Quantified by the Downward Slope of the QRS Complex Conference

XXXII Ann. Conf. Computers in Cardiology, Lyon, 2005.

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Pueyo, E; Malik, M; Laguna, P

Beat-to-beat Adaptation of QT Interval to Heart Rate Conference

27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. (EMBS05), Shanghai, 2005.

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2004

Journal Articles

Pueyo, E; Smetana, P; Caminal, P; Luna, A Bayés; Malik, M; Laguna, P

Characterization of QT Interval Adaptation to RR Interval Changes and Its Use as a Risk-Stratifier of Arrhythmic Mortality in Amiodarone-Treated Survivors of Acute Myocardial Infarction Journal Article

In: IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1511-1520, 2004.

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Pueyo, E; García, J; Wagner, G; Bailón, R; Sörnmo, L; Laguna, P

Time course of ECG Depolarization and Repolarization changes during Ischemia in PTCA recordings Journal Article

In: Methods Inf. Med., vol. 43, pp. 43-46, 2004.

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Pueyo, E; Smetana, P; Laguna, P; Malik, M

Assessment of individual QT/RR relationship and hysteresis in post-infarction patients Journal Article

In: Italian Heart Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 165S-168S, 2004.

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Smetana, P; Pueyo, E; Hnatkova, K; Batchvarov, V; Laguna, P; Malik, M

Individual patterns of dynamic QT/RR relationship in survivors of acute myocardial infarction and their relationship to antiarrhythmic efficacy of amiodarone Journal Article

In: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1147-1154, 2004.

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Conferences

Almeida, R; Pueyo, E; Martínez, J P; Rocha, A P; Laguna, P

Quantification of the QT Variability Related to HRV: Robustness Study Facing Automat Delineation and Noise on the ECG Conference

XXXI International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, Chicago, 2004.

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Almeida, R; Rocha, A P; Pueyo, E; Martínez, J P; Laguna, P

Modelling short term variability interactions in ECG: QT versus RR Conference

COMPSTAT’2004 Symposium, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg New York, Prague, Czech Republic, 2004, ISBN: 3-7908-1554-3.

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2003

Journal Articles

Pueyo, E; Smetana, P; Laguna, P; Malik, M

Estimation of the QT/RR hysteresis lag Journal Article

In: Journal of Electrocardiology, Supplement, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 187-190, 2003.

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Smetana, P; Pueyo, E; Hnatkova, K; Batchvarov, V; Camm, A J; Malik, M

Effect of amiodarone on the descending limb of the T wave Journal Article

In: American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 92, pp. 742-746, 2003.

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Conferences

Almeida, R; Pueyo, E; Martínez, J P; Rocha, A P; Laguna, P; Olmos, S

Quantification of short term QT variability versus heeart rate variability Conference

7th Portuguese Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioEng’2003), Lisboa, 2003.

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Pueyo, E; Smetana, P; Malik, M; Laguna, P

Evaluation of QT Interval Response to Marked RR Interval Changes Selected Automatically in Ambulatory Recordings Conference

XXX International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, Tesalonica, 2003.

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Almeida, R; Pueyo, E; Martínez, J P; Rocha, A P; Olmos, S; Laguna, P

A Parametric Model Approach for Quantification of Short Term QT Variability Uncorrelated with Heart Rate Variability Conference

XXX International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, Tesalonica, 2003.

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2002

Conferences

Pueyo, E; García, J; Wagner, G; Bailón, R; Sörnmo, L; Laguna, P

Time course of ECG depolarization and repolarization changes during ischemia in PTCA recordings Conference

4th Biosignal interpretation international workshop, IEEE Computer Society, Como, 2002.

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Pueyo, E; Smetana, P; Knatkoval, H; Malik, M; Laguna, P

Tiempo de adaptación del QT a cambios en el RR, relación con el riesgo de muerte arrítmica Conference

XX Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (CASEIB’02), Zaragoza, 2002.

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Pueyo, E; Smetana, P; Hnatkoval, K; Laguna, P; Malik, M

Time for QT Adaptation to RR Changes and Relation to Arrhythmic Mortality Reduction in Amiodarone-treated Patients Conference

XXIX International Conference on Computers in Cardiology, Memphis, 2002.

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