Education

Academic background in biomedical engineering & data science

PhD in Biomedical Data Science

2023 – Present
ETH Zurich
Predicting individual treatment response for injection therapy in low back pain using multimodal ML. Integrated MRI, EHR and gait data; deployed to Swiss BiomedIT federated network.
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Visiting PhD Researcher

2025 – 2026
University of Oxford — Visual Geometry Group
Pairwise ranking and shape-derived biomarkers for multi-pathology spine MRI assessment with Prof. Zisserman’s group.

MSc in Biomedical Engineering (Honors, 120 ECTS)

2018 – 2021
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Thesis: Assessment of cardiac valve motion on time-resolved MRI using deep learning (Siemens Healthineers).
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BSc in Telecommunications Engineering (240 ECTS)

2013 – 2017
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Erasmus semester in Germany. Thesis: ECG-based algorithm for annotation of resuscitation episodes.
Languages
C2
Spanish Native
C1
Basque Native
C1
English Fluent
B2
German Intermediate

Certifications

Industry and professional certifications

UPV/EHU Dec 2017

MicroMaster in Biomedical Engineering: Formation & Entrepreneurship (10 ECTS)

Scholarships & Awards

2025
AO Foundation Research Opportunity Award
AO Foundation · Research Opportunity Award funding the visiting-researcher position at the University of Oxford (VGG), Sep 2025–Jan 2026.
2025
Swiss Friends of Oxford · Scholarship co-funding the visiting-researcher position at the University of Oxford (VGG).
2024
Travel Grant — Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Conference
ETH Zurich · PhD Data Science
2023
PHRT PhD Fellowship — Personalized Health & Related Technologies
ETH Domain · PHRT · Doctoral fellowship funding the PhD in Biomedical Data Science.
2022
RE·WORK · BASF Digital Hub · Named
2020
Erasmus+ Traineeship Scholarship — Research Internship
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering · FAU
2020
Travel Grant — ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering · FAU
2016
Erasmus+ Scholarship — Semester Abroad (FAU, Germany)
B.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering · UPV/EHU

Badges

Data Science Foundations: Data Mining — LinkedIn Learning
Computational Photography Project — OpenCV.org
C++ (3 stars) — HackerRank
SQL (5 stars) — HackerRank