Aldo Abarca Ortega

Aldo Abarca-Ortega
Ph.D. Student

Originally from Santiago de Chile, where he studied Mechanical Civil Engineering, working later as a research assistant and part-time professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. In 2019 he started his PhD studies at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, focusing his research on mechanical characterization using microfluidic devices in the field of mechanobiology.

Main lines of research:
– Development of mechanical characterization devices in mechanobiology.
– Computational biomechanics.
– Microfluidics.
– Study of animal calcareous biomineralization of marine origin under climatic changes