Vargas

Machine Learning for Multiscale Analysis of Biomedical Data

Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas

Principal Investigator


Short Bio

Esteban was born in Mexico, where he earned a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. After that, he did his Ph.D. in  Mathematics at the Hamilton Institute, NUI, Ireland. After completing his doctoral studies in 2011, he continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow (2011-2014) at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany. 


In the summer of 2014, he got a Junior Group Research Group Leader position and founded the lab of Systems Medicine of Infectious Diseases at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.


In March 2017, he got an independent Research Group Leader position at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic, he got a faculty position at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).


Since August 2022, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho, USA.


He has obtained external funding for his research group from federal agencies such as the NIH (R01 Award), NSF (Award for Early-Career Academic Pathways in Mathematical Sciences), DFG (German Research Foundation) as well as private industry such as Bohringer Ingelheim.


Additionally, he was an adjunct lecturer at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg as well as a visiting scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Universidad de Guadalajara, CentraleSupelec, and Northeastern University.


He has feature stories in English, German, and Spanish language: 




Links: Google Scholar 


e-mail:  esteban@systemsmedicine.de


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