Pilar Guerrero

Pilar Guerrero Contreras holds a PhD in Mathematics with a specialization in Applied Mathematics from the University of Granada, Spain. During her graduate studies, she held a position as a Graduate Student at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the same university from June 2006 to June 2010.

Under the mentorship of Prof. Juan Soler Vizcaíno and Jose Luis López Fernández, and funded by the Junta de Andalucía, she was involved in an excellent project in the Research Group on PDE's in Kinetic Theory, Quantum-Kinetics, Fluid Mechanics, and Developmental Biology. Her PhD thesis focused on analyzing qualitative aspects of partial differential equations related to developmental biology and quantum mechanics, particularly exploring properties of solutions related to diffusion, dispersion, and dissipation.

Following the completion of her PhD in September 2010, Pilar continued her research as a post-doctoral researcher in The Computational and Mathematical Biology group at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) until June 2013. Under the supervision of Tomás Alarcón, her work centered on stochastic multi-scale modeling of biological systems, mathematical modeling of the cell-cycle, and the development of numerical methods for simulation and analysis. She played a key role as a co-organizer of The CRM Applied Mathematical and Physics (CAMP) Seminars.

Since July 2013, Pilar has been serving as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mathematical Biology, collaborating with Dr. Karen Page from UCL Mathematics and Dr. James Briscoe from the Francis Crick Institute, Developmental Neurobiology. Their research focuses on mathematical modeling of the development of the neural tube in the vertebrate embryo, specifically targeting the spatial patterning of the neural tube, the coordination of patterning with growth, and the development of an in silico neural tube.

In September 2018, Pilar joined the Interdisciplinary Group of Complex System (GISC) and the Mathematics department at University Carlos III in Leganés, Madrid, as a "Profesora Ayudante Doctor." She currently serves as a teacher of Calculus I for various Engineering degrees.