Mireia Besalú Mayol

Associate Professor

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH)

mireia.besalu@upc.edu

Biosketch

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech.

I graduated in Mathematics from the University of Barcelona in 2006. The same year I enrolled in a Master in Advanced Mathematics and subsequently I started my PhD studies. I obtained the doctorate degree in Mathematics in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Carles Rovira.

I joined the INRIA research center of Nancy (France) for one year and 4 months, supervised by Professor Samy Tindel, after obtaining the PhD degree.

In June 2014, I obtained the Lector accreditation (Catalan government accreditation equivalent to ANECA "ayudante doctor" accreditation).

At this point I decided to continue my education and deepen my background in Statistics and in 2016 I obtained the Statistics and Operations Research master’s degree of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Universitat de Barcelona. This master has driven me to new areas of research, many of them with important practical applications and where a theoretical probabilistic background is greatly appreciated.

From September 2019 to September 2024 I was a Lecturer in the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics (Statistical Section) at the University of Barcelona.

My research is on goodness-of-fit tests for right-censored data, multi-state models and with stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion.

Research areas:

Goodness-of-fit methods

Multi-state models

Stochastic differential equations

Fractional Brownian Motion

Publication links: ORCID, ResearcherID, LINKEDIN, SCOPUS, GScholar

Education

PhD in Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, March 2011

MSc in Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, June 2016

MSc in Advanced Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, September 2007

BSc in Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona, March 2006

Teaching

Probability and Stochastic Process, Bachelor in Statistics UB-UPC

Probability and Statistics. Bachelor Degree in Informatics Engineering