Pablo Catalán

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

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pcatalan@math.uc3m.com

curriculum vitae

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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

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    Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities
    Juan Diaz-Colunga*, Pablo Catalán*, Magdalena San Roman*, Andrea Arrabal*, and Alvaro Sanchez
    eLife, 2024
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    Discovery and molecular basis of chloride as an allosteric activator and catalytic inhibitor for Class-D β-lactamases
    Qi Zhou*, Pablo Catalán*, Helen Bell*, Patrick Baumann, Rhodri Evans, Jianhua Yang, Zhen Zhang, Davide Zappala, Ye Zhang, George Michael Blackburn, Yuan He, and Yi Jin
    ACS Central Science, 2023
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    COP1 dynamics integrate conflicting seasonal light and thermal cues in the control of Arabidopsis elongation
    Cristina Nieto*, Pablo Catalán*, Luis Miguel Luengo, Martina Legris, Vadir López-Salmerón, Jean Michel Davière, Jorge J Casal, Saúl Ares, and Salomé Prat
    Science Advances, 2022
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    Seeking patterns of antibiotic resistance in ATLAS, an open, raw MIC database with patient metadata
    Pablo Catalán, Emily Wood, Jessica MA Blair, Ivana Gudelj, Jonathan R Iredell, and Robert E Beardmore
    Nature Communications, 2022
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    From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics
    Susanna Manrubia, José A Cuesta, Jacobo Aguirre, Sebastian E Ahnert, Lee Altenberg, Alejandro V Cano, Pablo Catalán, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte, Santiago F Elena, Juan Antonio Garcı́a-Martı́n, Paulien Hogeweg, Bhavin S. Khatri, Joachim Krug, Ard A. Louis, Nora S. Martin, Joshua L. Payne, Matthew Tarnowski, and Marcel Weiß
    Physics of Life Reviews, 2021
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    The Antibiotic Dosage of Fastest Resistance Evolution: gene amplifications underpinning the inverted-U
    Carlos Reding, Pablo Catalán, Gunther Jansen, Tobias Bergmiller, Emily Wood, Phillip Rosenstiel, Hinrich Schulenburg, Ivana Gudelj, and Robert Beardmore
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2021
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    Populations of genetic circuits are unable to find the fittest solution in a multilevel genotype–phenotype map
    Pablo Catalán, Susanna Manrubia, and José A Cuesta
    Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2020
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    Adding levels of complexity enhances robustness and evolvability in a multilevel genotype–phenotype map
    Pablo Catalán, Andreas Wagner, Susanna Manrubia, and José A Cuesta
    Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018