Cristina Masoller

Profesora Catedratica, Physics Department, UPC

 

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VII “Rio de la Plata” Workshop on Optics and Photonics, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 15-17 December 2025

 

Recent Publications

A. A. B. Pessa et al., “Structural roles and gender disparities in corruption networks”, Scientific Reports 15, 14201 (2025).

 

L. Messee Goulefack, C. Masoller, R. Yamapi, C. Anteneodo, “Quantifying wave propagation in a chain of FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons”, Chaos 35, 033110 (2025). arXiv.

 

B.R.R. Boaretto, E.E.N. Macau, C. Masoller, “Noise-induced extreme events in Hodgkin–Huxley neural networks”, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 194, 116133 (2025). arXiv.

Research lines:

 

Semiconductor lasers: experiments and simulations of nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers under optical feedback, current modulation, optical injection; extreme optical pulses, photonic neurons, optical spikes, speckle, spatial and temporal coherence.

 

Complex systems and data analysis: complex networks, network inference, network reconstruction, ordinal analysis, biomedical data analysis, climate data analysis, machine learning, outlier detection, extreme events, critical transitions, tipping points, early warning indicators.

 

Neuronal dynamics: neuron models, neural coding, synchronization, stochastic processes, time delays.

 

You can find information about the research group here; PhD theses here; talks with slides here; organized scientific events here; press articles and videos here.

 

Funding: Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR 2021 SGR 00606); Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA ACADEMIA); European Union (Doctoral Network “Be-light”, 101119924) and European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD FA8655-24-1-7022). You can find information about ongoing projects here and finished projects here.

 

Teaching: I teach in the School of Industrial, Aerospace and Audiovisual Engineering of Terrassa (ESEIAAT), in the School of Mathematics and Statistics (FME) and in the Barcelona Master in Photonics. I also regularly impart lectures in PhD schools. The slides in English are available here.

 

Editorial activity: I am Section Editor of Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (Elsevier), Topical Editor of Optics Letters (Optica), and Editor of Scientific Reports (Nature).

 

Book: Networks in Climate co-authored with H. A. Dijkstra, E. Hernandez-Garcia and M. Barreiro (Cambridge University Press 2019, ISBN: 9781316275757).

 

Biography: I received the bachelor and master degrees in physics from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, where I was Assistant and Associate Professor (1989-2004). I received the PhD degree in physics from Bryn Mawr College (USA) in 1999. I was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Nice, at Bangor University and at Universitat de les Illes Balears (2000-2002). I joined Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in 2004 as a Ramon and Cajal researcher, became Associate Professor in 2009 and Professor (Catedratica) in 2018. You can find here my CV.

 

Awards: I received three ICREA ACADEMIA awards (you can find my ICREA profile here). I am fellow of the OPTICA society (formerly OSA, you can find my fellow profile here).

 

Contact me: My office and the semiconductor laser lab are located in Gaia Building, UPC Campus Terrassa.

Address: Rambla St. Nebridi 22, Terrassa 08222, Spain.

cristina.masoller @ upc.edu, cristina.masoller @ gmail.com