Dr. Luis Acedo

Luis Acedo received his B.S. degree in fundamental physics from the University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain, in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (with honors) from the same university in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He has been teaching at the Universities of Extremadura and Salamanca, specifically at the Departments of Physics and Applied Mathematics. He has also worked as research assistant at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. Currently, he works as professor of applied mathematics at the University Center of Plasencia, University of Extremadura, Spain. He has been involved in many interdisciplinary projects including statistical physics, cosmology, numerical methods, and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. His current interests are celestial mechanics, gravitational physics, numerical analysis of nonlinear equations, and distributed computing in epidemiology. He has also been involved in projects to simulate the propagation of meningitis and other infectious diseases in large-scale networks and the cost effectiveness of vaccination campaigns.