Josè Ruiz Franco

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Jose obtained a Bachelor's degree "Licenciatura" in Physics (2009-2014) and a Master's degree in Biophysics and Mathematics (2014-2015) from the University of Granada, with a Master's Thesis on "Training of random boolean networks as an approach to a neural network," under the supervision of Prof. Miguel A. Muñoz at the Carlos I Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics. He obtained his Ph.D. in the La Sapienza Università di Roma in 2019, working in the group of Dr. Emanuela Zaccarelli on simulations of Soft Matter systems under deformations. He remained one year more thanks to the "Add Sapiexcellence Fellow," investigating the elastic properties of disordered polymer networks. He was later a postdoctoral at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) with Prof. Jasper van der Gucht, studying the mechanical properties of elastomers and biopolymer networks in the presence of catch bonds and cells. In February 2023, he started a postdoctoral research at the University of Groningen with Dr. Andrea Giuntoli, where he explores new strategies to induce self-healing mechanisms in glassy polymer melts. Jose develops his research through the combination of Molecular Dynamics simulations and theoretical approaches. If you want to know more about him, click here. Jose likes to enjoy life. To that, he travels, reads, plays video games, and spends time with friends, food and beers.