Scholar
David Yllanes
Google Scholar ID: HIwJ8QIAAAAJ
BIFI-ZCAM, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,473
H-index
24
i10-index
34
Publications
20
Co-authors
65
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Ph.D. thesis awarded the Metropolis Prize by the American Physical Society (APS)
- Developed the Tethered Monte Carlo (Tethered MC) formalism for exploring rugged free-energy landscapes
- Introduced the concept of 'ambigrammatic viruses'
- Published significant results in spin glasses, active matter, crumpling transitions in membranes, genetic assembly, and phylogenetic trees
- Mentored junior researchers who successfully defended theses or published their first papers
Research Experience
- Since September 2024: Permanent ARAID Researcher at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) and ZCAM, Zaragoza, leading a research project
- 2018–2024: Staff Scientist at CZ Biohub (affiliated with Stanford, Berkeley, and UCSF), conducting interdisciplinary research on subcellular processes and epidemiology in close collaboration with experimental groups
- Postdoctoral researcher at Syracuse University, working independently on active matter phase transitions, disordered swarms, bacterial fruiting body formation, and geometry/topology effects in thermalized elastic membranes
- Postdoc in Giorgio Parisi’s group in Rome, continuing spin glass research; discovered a glass transition without time-reversal symmetry under magnetic field
- Early contributor to the xAct tensor algebra software package (led by J.M. Martín García), used in over 1,200 publications in gravitation
