María Pérez Zabalza
Faculty Member
Biography
María Pérez Zabalza received the MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Spain, in 1999. After working for 6 years as software engineer in different private companies in Navarre, Madrid and Barcelona, she studied the Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona. As a result of this, in 2005, she started her career as a researcher in the Institute Guttmann – Neurorehabilitation Hospital, Barcelona, performing, analysing and studying multichannel surface electromyography (sEMG) of patients with incomplete spinal cord injury. In 2008 she started her PhD studies in Neuroscience at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Dr. Maria Victoria Sanchez (Idibaps, Barcelona) and Dr. Maurizio Mattia (Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome), finishing in 2013. Her thesis work focused on the study and mathematical analysis of brain signals to understand the mechanisms that modulate a specific brain rhythm, and their possible alterations triggered by different types of pathologies. In September of 2016, she got a postdoc position at the Engineering Fluid Dynamics department at the University of Twente (Netherlands). For two years she studied different biomedical signals to investigate mechanisms of action of High Flow Therapy and the physiological impact on respiratory mechanics, to find possible Biomarkers which help clinicians deliver this technique in a more optimal and efficient way.
Publications
2022
Artículos de revista
Analysis of age-related left ventricular collagen remodeling in living donors: implications in arrhythmogenesis Artículo de revista
En: iScience, 2022.
Conferencias
XI Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores del I3A, 2022.
Envejecimiento cardíaco humano: transcriptómica y desarrollo de modelos celulares Conferencia
II Congreso Anual de Estudiantes de Doctorado (CAED), Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, 2022.
SK channels characterization in the human ventricle: differences in expression levels and electrophysiological role in non-diseased and heart failure ventricles Conferencia
46th European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (EWGCCE), Toledo, España, 2022.
SK channels contribution to ventricular electrophysiology in heart failure patients Conferencia
Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine (FCVB), Cardiovascular Research, Volume 118, Issue Supplement_1, June 2022 Budapest, Hungría, 2022.
Development of new human models to determine age related cardiotoxicity of drugs Conferencia
Stem cells and stem cell models in disease & health (SCMiDH), Hasselt, Belgium, 2022.
2021
Artículos de revista
Chronological and biological aging of the human left ventricular myocardium: Analysis of microRNAs contribution Artículo de revista
En: Aging Cell, vol. 00:e13383, pp. 1-16, 2021.
Conferencias
Envejecimiento cardiaco humano: transcriptómica y desarrollo de modelos celulares de envejecimiento Conferencia
X Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores I3A. Comunicación oral, 2021.