Professor Blanca Rodriguez

Professor Blanca Rodriguez is a leading scientist & innovator in Computational Medicine at the University of Oxford. She actively collaborates with industry through research and innovation projects and consultancy. She aims to accelerate medical therapy development through human modelling and simulation augmented by big data, machine learning and non-animal experimental methods. She has raised over £40 million as principal or co-investigator and leads the Computational Cardiovascular Science team.

Professor Rodriguez has a deep commitment to training on technical aspects of modelling and simulation including verification, validation and uncertainty quantification, but importantly also skills for effective interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations and communication. She regularly gives speeches in conferences, industry and public events.

Originally, Professor Rodriguez is from Valencia, Spain, where she went to school at the Lycee Francais de Valencia, and trained in Engineering at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (MSc and PhD). She lived in New Orleans, USA for two years working as a postdoc at Tulane University. She then joined the University of Oxford, holding competitive personal research fellowships and leading her team since 2007. She has held the Professorship in Computational Medicine since 2014.