Pablo Catalán
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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I am a multidisciplinary researcher with degrees in Biology, Physics and Mathematics. I am interested in using quantitative methods to solve biological problems.
After earning my PhD in Mathematical Engineering from UC3M in 2017, I won a Ramón Areces Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on antibiotic resistance at the University of Exeter, where I stayed for one year. In 2019 I returned to the Department of Mathematics at UC3M as an Assistant Professor. Finally, in 2025 I became Associate Professor.
I am a member of the Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), a research group gathering people from departments of physics, mathematics, and biology at several institutions, and whose main interest is the physics of complex systems.
I teach several math courses for different degrees at UC3M. My notes can be found in the teaching page.
In my free time, I practice Zen meditation.
selected publications
- Seeking patterns of antibiotic resistance in ATLAS, an open, raw MIC database with patient metadataNature Communications, 2022
- From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamicsPhysics of Life Reviews, 2021
- The Antibiotic Dosage of Fastest Resistance Evolution: gene amplifications underpinning the inverted-UMolecular Biology and Evolution, 2021
- Populations of genetic circuits are unable to find the fittest solution in a multilevel genotype–phenotype mapJournal of the Royal Society Interface, 2020
- Adding levels of complexity enhances robustness and evolvability in a multilevel genotype–phenotype mapJournal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018