Prof. J. Alberto Conejero

J. Alberto Conejero received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics from the Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, in 1998, and an M.Sc. degree in bioinformatics and biostatistics from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 2020, as well as a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, in 2004, receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award. Since 2020, he has been a Full Professor with UPV. He has been Vice-Rector of Students and Entrepreneurship, Director of the Department of Applied Mathematics, UPV, and responsible for the M.Sc. program on Mathematics Research with UPV. He has been a Visiting Scholar with Bowling Green St. University, Bowling Green, OH, USA, Kent St. University, Kent, OH, USA, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, and Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia. His research interests include dynamical systems, partial differential equations, graph theory, network science, and the multidisciplinary applications of mathematics to computer science, engineering, and biotechnology. He received the Teaching Excellence Prize of UPV in 2014, and he won the XPRIZE $500k Pandemic Response Challenge with the VALENCIA IA4COVID team in 2021.