José María Casanova Blázquez

I am Jose María Casanova, a biomedical engineer with a Master’s in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. I am currently pursuing my PhD at ICTAN as part of the DIGISEN group, working on my thesis titled “Development and Application of Virtual Environments in Sensory and Consumer Analysis,” funded by the Momentum project (European Union – Next Generation EU). Throughout my academic and professional training, I have had the opportunity to be involved in various interdisciplinary research projects. During my undergraduate studies, I completed rotations at Hospital del Sureste, where I participated in a Natural Language Processing (NLP) project applied to surgical report analysis, exploring how this technology can extract and structure relevant clinical information for research and decision-making support. I was also part of the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering at the University of Alcalá, where I worked on a study analyzing the incidence of endometriosis in women and its potential correlation with the prior consumption of certain medications across different age groups. For my undergraduate thesis, I conducted an in-depth literature review on CRISPR/Cas technology, examining its mechanisms and biomedical applications. Later, during my Master’s thesis, I worked with functional MRI (fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP), analyzing brain connectivity patterns and their relationship with different cognitive functions. My profile combines expertise in biomedicine, bioinformatics, data analysis, and computational technologies applied to health, with experience in advanced biomedical data processing tools. Currently, my research focuses on the development and application of virtual environments for sensory analysis and consumer perception.