Miguel Ángel Otaduy

Biography

 Dr. Miguel Otaduy is an associate professor in Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos since 2008. Before that, he obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in 2004, and worked as a senior research associate at ETH Zurich from 2005 to 2008. He is internationally known for his work on physically based simulation for computer animation, covering broad problems in solid and fluid mechanics, constrained dynamics, geometric algorithms, measurement-based model design, tactile interaction, and efficient parallel algorithms. He has published over 60 papers in international journals and conferences, and has served as program or conference chair for major conferences in his field. He is also the director of several national and European projects, notably the ERC Starting Grant ‘Animetrics.

Research Interest

 Pharma