User:JuanCarlosMartinez

Visiting Professor

Hi there! My background is electrical engineering and applied mathematics. I am from Mexico -Viva !México cabrones!-. I am Electrical and Mechanical Engineer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Research and Advanced Studies Center of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav - IPN). I get a PhD degree (Summa Cum Laude) on Mathematical Control Theory from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France. The last fifteen year I have been involved in:

• Theoretical research concerning the solution of classical feedback control problems of systems described by linear ordinary differential equations: disturbance rejection, model matching, and input-output decoupling. Moreover, I worked in the analysis and design of robust control systems and fault detection schemes.
• Applied research concerning control applications in robotics and earthquake engineering.

Now days I am interested on the analysis and design of biological systems. More specifically, I want to understand how the robustness property which characterizes living beings arrives from the evolutionary process, and how this property conditions the network structure of the molecular system supporting life. Not an easy task I know. The reason of my presence at HMS is to learn from biologist both the experimental and the conceptual tools involved in systems biology ( would appeciate any possible help, ... please). Well, I am really enjoying my stay here.

More about me

I like tequila, rock music, nature, photography, violent movies -well, I also like non violent movies, even romantic movies-, and I am a reading machine -romans, history, poetry, sociology, philosophy,...-. As a complementary information: I have two daughters -Anais, 14 years old- and -Valentina, 10 years old-, who are my perpetual source of happiness.