modeling nature from nano to macro
Rene
Fabregas
STAFF

Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Granada and a member of the Modeling Nature (MNat) Research Unit. His research focuses on developing mathematical frameworks for complex physical systems through partial differential equations, inverse problems, and computational methods.
He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematical Research at the Complutense University of Madrid (Department of Applied Mathematics) in 2014 as part of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network "FIRST," conducting research across multiple institutions: Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (Department of Mathematics, 2011-2012), Complutense University of Madrid (Department of Applied Mathematics, 2012-2013), and Sapienza University of Rome (Department of Mathematics, 2013). His postdoctoral career included positions at IBEC Barcelona and a highly competitive Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2019-2021) at the University of Manchester (Department of Physics & Astronomy), where he collaborated with Nobel Laureates on nanoscale physics research.
His research program is structured along three main lines: the modelling and simulation of nanoscale physics, integrating inverse problems with PDE theory; Data-Driven Health Mathematics for clinical prediction problems; and the Mathematical Biology of Complex Systems, developing theoretical frameworks for collective dynamics. This work is supported by his participation and leadership in multiple competitive national and international research projects, including an H2020 MSCA-IF, and has produced a portfolio of high-impact publications. His contributions have appeared in the world's leading scientific journals, including Science (2018), Nature (2024), Nature Communications (2021), Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M³AS) (2026), ACS Nano (2016), and Nanoscale (2021). He supervised one PhD thesis (Dr H. Balakrishnan, awarded an "Excellent" grade, now a postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich) and several Master's theses, and is currently supervising two PhD students. He has participated in 11 competitive national and international research projects, including three as Principal Investigator and eight as Work Package Leader.