modeling nature from nano to macro
About us
MNat unit emerges to make progress and educate the next generation of scientists in challenging topics at the interfaces of biology, physics, biomedicine, engineering and mathematics. Only integrative approaches will allow improving our understanding on cell communication from microbial world to cancer cells, the exploration of new and intelligent materials in nanotechnology and biomechanics for medical applications, and biopolymer and network dynamics at different scales.
Our strategic research plan arises from synergies and collaborations among different scientific groups mostly established at the University of Granada. These multidisciplinary collaborations are based on the combination of mathematical models, simulations, and big data analysis to address fundamental and applied problems in the context of tumour dynamics, ecology, developmental biology, biomechanics, and physics of new materials.
Photos by A. Delgado, M. López-Viota and J. de Vicente
The strategic research plan is organized in four interdisciplinary areas:
I. Mathematical Foundation, Models, and Methods
in Nature
II. Modeling cell communication and tumour dynamics
III. Modeling Bio-Nanotechnology. New materials
and Bio-Engineering
IV. Modeling complex and dynamic adaptive systems at multiple scales. Computational Biology
Photo by Francisco Perfectti
The knowledge generated on mathematical modeling, complexity, ecological networks, physics of new materials or tumor dynamics will also contribute to social aspects of the interactions of individuals, clustering, general architectural patterns, collective dynamics of species, properties of spatial and temporal heterogeneity, and learning or adaptive phenomena. This knowledge will be delivered to the society as scientific publications, trained professionals in multidisciplinary fields, patents and new technologies to
face environmental and medical problems.
The ultimate objective of this unit is to achieve an internationally competitive interdisciplinary training that allows doctoral and postdoctoral researchers excellent and versatile skills required in the current society, both inside and outside the Academia.