Professor Blanca Rodriguez

Blanca Rodriguez is Professor of Computational Medicine and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is Head of the Computational Biology and Health Informatics Theme in the Department of Computer Science, and also leads the Computational Cardiovascular Science team (www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ccs). Her research is on investigating causes and modulators of variability in the response of the heart to disease and therapies, by exploiting computational methods to augment experimental and clinical investigations. Blanca is very active in student training, mentorship and holds leadership positions in several organisations. Blanca is from Valencia, Spain, where she studied Engineering and graduated with a PhD in cardiac modelling and simulation in 2002. She then trained as a postdoc at Tulane University (2002-2004). She joining Oxford first as a senior postdoc (2004-2007) and then holding a Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship (2007-2013).