Lucas Tesán, a researcher at I3A Unizar, has been awarded one of the Travel Grant Awards at the CMBE 2026 International Conference (International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering), held in Kobe, Japan. This recognition is in honour of his research work in two of the most cutting-edge fields at the intersection of mathematics, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering: topological deep learning and graph neural networks applied to biological systems.
Lucas Tesán carries out his research as part of Professor Elías Cueto’s team at the Aragón Engineering Research Institute (I3A) at the University of Zaragoza, where, amongst other major projects, the Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (ENIA), which has recently been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to continue advancing its research.
He is currently a pre-doctoral researcher in the Applied Mechanics and Bioengineering (AMB) group at the University of Zaragoza. He is a mechanical engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the same university. His research focuses on the development of computational simulation methods and artificial intelligence for modelling complex physical systems. His main areas of research include real-time simulation, scientific machine learning, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), neural operators and graph neural networks, with a particular focus on their application to the development of digital twins.
The International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE), at which he received this award, is one of the world’s leading events in this field, bringing together researchers, academics, professionals and postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines at each edition to discuss the latest advances in the use of computational and mathematical methods applied to biomedical engineering. The fact that Lucas Tesán’s work has been recognised at a forum of this calibre reflects the quality and international standing of the research carried out by researchers at the I3A, as well as the young talent at the University of Zaragoza.
Lucas Tesán received this award during the conference’s gala dinner at the end of June, at an event which brought together some of the world’s leading researchers in computational biomedical engineering.
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