TEAM
The people behind FORESEE
Laura Becerra-Fajardo, PhD
Project Coordinator
Electronic Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (PAES scholarship – Best High School Graduates 2002), and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Colfuturo PCB scholarship). She completed her PhD at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies – UPF, in 2016. Former member of the Translational Research & Knowledge Management team (R&D) of Otto Bock (Germany). Between 2017 and 2023 she worked in three European projects related to the development and validation of the eAXON technology, and was the Project Leader of IntraSenso-eAXON, an entrepreneurial action supported by CaixaResearch Validate program from “la Caixa” Foundation.
Antoni Ivorra, PhD
Scientific Coordinator
Full Professor and Serra Húnter Fellow at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Prior to joining UPF in 2010, he enjoyed a postdoctoral stay at the University of California at Berkeley (2005-2009) followed by a postdoctoral position at the CNRS- Institut Gustave Roussy (Villejuif, France). During 1998-2005, he was with the Biomedical Applications Group of the Centre Nacional de Microelectrònica, Bellaterra, Spain. He received a PhD in Electronics Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in 2005. In 2016 he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on microstimulators for neuroprosthetics (eAXON project), and in 2020 and 2022 two ERC Proof-of-Concept Grants Senso-eAXON and TEAXON to explore the potential of this work.
Javier Colás Fustero, BSc, MD
Chief Strategy Officer
Guest Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Javier is a Telecommunications Engineer. Later he studied Medicine. Diploma in International Marketing from INSEAD. Javier is currently the director of Innovation at the Health Care Institute of ESADE Business & Law School and director of the Cluster of Technological Innovation and Talent in Biomedical Technologies and Biotechnology of the Community of Madrid. He is also president of Additum, a company dedicated to the creation of value in health and programs to reduce the climate footprint of the health sector. With this company he also works on the implementation of Primary Care Services for African countries. For 25 years he was president of Medtronic for Spain, France and Portugal and for 15 years Director of the Medical Informatics Division of HP, from which he led the first implementation of Hospital Information Systems in 110 Insalud hospitals.
Gerard Fernàndez, MSc
Senior ASIC designer
Electronic Engineer from Universitat de Barcelona (2013) and MSc. in Microelectronics from Universidad de Sevilla (2015). He worked in several areas of electronics, from embedded software for computers and appliances, to analog and discrete electronics. From 2012 to 2017 Gerard worked at SiUB, a service of the University of Barcelona that does instrumentation design, development and test to research groups. There he worked in the integrated circuit design for High Energy Physics applications. He then moved to industry, first as an embedded software engineer in E.G.O Appliance Controls S.L.U and then as a hardware design engineer at Beamagine, a spin-off from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2019, Gerard fully moved to the microelectronics field as an Analog Design Engineer in Monolithic Power Systems, an American publicly traded company that specializes in power management solutions for electronic systems, where he shared and learned from some of the greatest professionals of the field.
Jesús Minguillón, PhD
Junior ASIC designer
Jesús received his MSc degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2014 and his MSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2015, both from the University of Granada (Granada, Spain). In 2018, he received his PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Granada. He has worked on the design and development of non-invasive brain-computer interfaces and other biosignal-based systems and their use in daily-life contexts. From 2018 to 2022 he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Biomedical Electronics Research Group (BERG) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His main research focused on the design and development of power supply and bidirectional communication systems (hardware-software) for volume-conduction-based implants, in the framework of two European projects: eAXON and EXTEND. Between 2022 and 2024 he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Granada.
Mar Gadea Saez, BSc
Biomedical Engineer
Biomedical Engineering alumni from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Her BSc thesis was the design and development of an in vitro mockup of the pulmonary circulation to test wireless implantable pressure sensors in the framework of the IntraSenso-eAXON project. She is currently pursuing an expert postgraduate course in medical devices at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), giving her a comprehensive understanding of the regulatory pathways governing medical device development and commercialization.
Ivan Luque del Toro, BSc
Biomedical Engineer
Biomedical Engineering alumni from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Experience in the development of software for automatic detection and assessment of pulmonary embolism from medical images. This work resulted in the 1st Prize of the SEIB-FENIN Awards 2023 for Spanish Biomedical Engineering graduates, awarded by the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (“Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica” | SEIB). Ivan joined the Biomedical Electronics Research Group (BERG) in 2023 aiding in the development of medical devices capable of assisting in the diagnostic, treatment, and/or follow-up of cardiovascular diseases. Since September 2024 he is officially a member of the FORESEE team, helping in the development of the Intravascular microsensor and the different test setups for its validation.
Do you want to join our team?
Engineers, business developers, consultants and mentors
Are you looking for a challenging career in implantable medical devices development and validation? Do you have experience with analog and digital microelectronic design and would like to live the entire process of design, layout, tape-out and verification? Do you have experience in Electronics, implant fabrication, pre-clinical validation and clinical studies? Would you like to join a team of entrepreneurs to take our remote patient monitoring platform to the market?
We are continuously looking for people that join our team as active team members, consultants or mentors. If you are interested, contact us through our contact form. Include your LinkedIn profile so that we can have a look at your experience.
Advisors
The FORESEE team is currently supported by the following experts:
- ASIC design expert: Dr. Albert Comerma, Serra Húnter Fellow from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and former member of the Biomedical Electronics Research Group at UPF.
- Clinical advisors: Dr. Oriol Rodríguez de Leor, Dr Carolina Gálvez Montón, and Dr. Antoni Bayés Genís from the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP).
