Ángel Luis Robles Fernández
- Postdoctoral researcher, Reuman Lab
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Ángel is a former middle school arts teacher and began his study of physics while teaching. After completing the bachelor's degree, he worked in the steel industry as a senior data analyst applying machine learning algorithms to automate and optimize processes. He left the position to begin the master's program.
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Ángel's research involves modeling the ecological interaction among mammals and viruses using environmental, geographical and phylogenetic information using machine learning. Mammal species predicted as highly susceptible coincide with sets of species that have been reported infected in field studies, but it also suggests other species that have not been previously considered or that have been captured in low numbers. Also, the environment (i.e., the distance between the species' optima in bioclimatic dimensions) in combination with geographic and phylogenetic distance is highly relevant in predicting susceptibility to DENV in wild mammals.