Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées
du Génome à l'Environnement

 

 

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Ferrer Savall Jordi

Coordonnées

  Email : jordi.ferrer-savall@jouy.inra.fr
Adresse : INRA - Unité MaIAGE
                 Bâtiment 233
                 Domaine de Vilvert
                 78352 JOUY-EN-JOSAS CEDEX
Tél : +33 (0)1 34 65 22 40
Fax : +33 (0)1 34 65 22 17
Secrétariat : +33 (0)1 34 65 29 44		 Ferrer Savall Jordi

 

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Academic background

  • 2010: PhD Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • 2007: Master Applied Physics and Simulation. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • 2004: Physics Degree. Universitat de Barcelona

Teaching qualifications

  • 2014: University, France. Qualification "maître de conférences", sections 28 (Milieux denses et matériaux) and 67 (Biologie des populations et écologie), Conseil National des Universités.
  • 2010: University, Spain. Qualification "profesor ayudante doctor" Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de Calidad y Acreditación del Ministerio de Educación.
  • 2006: Secondary education, spain. Qualification "Certificado de Aptitudes pedagógicas" pour l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans (équivalence CAPES).

Scientific experience

  • 2014 - : Post-doctoral researcher. Unité Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées;  Institut national de la recherche agronomique.
  • 2012-2013: Post-doctoral researcher. Laboratoire de Modélisation et Surveillance des Risques pour la Sécurité Sanitaire;  Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers.
  • 2006-2010: Doctoral researcher. Laboratory Modeling and Simulation of Microbial Biosystems;  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

    Teaching experience

     

  • 2014 :  Travaux dirigés en Statistiques du tronc commun première année, niveau licence ; AgroParisTech.
  • 2011-2012: Physics; university level.  Escola d'Enginyeria de Telecomunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels;  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
  • 2010-2011: Physics; university level. Campus de Terrassa. Universidad Nacional Educación a Distancia.
  • 2006-2010: Physics; university level. Escola Superior d'Agricultura de Barcelona;  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Sujet(s) de recherche

  • Mathematical modelling of epidemic processes. Analysis of the interplay between management decisions and dynamics of endemic diseases / epidemic outbreaks.

  • Agent-based modelling of infectious diseases. Spatio-temporal pattterns at a mesoscopic scale.

  • Individual-based modelling of microbial population dynamics in heterogeneous media. Interplay between biological and physical constraints.

Projet(s) de recherche

 

Current

  • “Multi-scale modelling, from animal Intra-Host to Metapopulation, of mechanisms of pathogen spread to Evaluate control Strategies” (MIHMES); French Research Agency (ANR-10-BINF-07); Principal Investigator: Dr. Pauline Ezanno 01/01/2012

    Aim: Reduction of public health risks associated to Salmonella contamination in the pig industry. Optimisation of management decisions at the farm level and from farm to slaughter-houses

 

Past

  • “Modélisation et Evaluation des risques à L’hOpital en Désorganisation Interne et Externe (MELODIE)”; Conseil régional Île-de-France (CP11-616); PI:  Dr. Laura Temime.
    Aim: Management of nurse schedulles and time-tables in the Intensive Care Unite to reduce the risk of pathogen spread and the prevalence of nosocomial infections.

     

  • “Modelización basada en el individuo (IbM) para el desarrollo sostenible: Industrias agroalimentarias y medio ambiente”; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (projects

    CGL2010-20160, CGL2007-6514 and CGL2004-01144); PI:  Dr. Antoni Giró Roca.
    Aim: Pedict bacterial population dynamics in heterogeneous media. Applications in soil microbiology and in predictive food microbiology.
     

  • Private-Public RD Partnerships: MOSIMBIO - Ipsen Pharma, (C-07923) and MOSIMBIO - GlaxoSmithKline (S-01242); PI:  Dr. Daniel López Codina.
    Aim: Infection dynamics of in vitro cultures of erythrocytes infected with P. falciparum. Design of experimental protocols to optimize culture yields and reduce costs.
     

Publications

 

Journals

  1. Clara Prats, Daniel Lopez, Antoni Giro, Jordi Ferrer, Joaquim Valls (2006). Individual-based modelling of bacterial cultures to study the microscopic causes of the lag phase. Journal of Theoretical Biology 241 939–953

  1. Jordi Ferrer, Jaume Vidal, Clara Prats, Joaquim Valls, Esperanza Herreros, Daniel Lopez, Antoni Giro, Domingo Gargallo (2007). Individual-based model and simulation of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocyte in vitro cultures. Journal of Theoretical Biology 248 448–459.

  1. Clara Prats, Antoni Giro, Jordi Ferrer, Daniel Lopez, Josep Vives-Rego (2008). Analysis and IbM simulation of the stages in bacterial lag phase: Basis for an updated definition. Journal of Theoretical Biology 252, 56–68
     

  2. Jordi Ferrer, Clara Prats, Daniel López (2008). Individual-based Modelling: An Essential Tool for Microbiology. Journal of biological physics 34, 19 – 37

  1. Jordi Ferrer, Marina D Rosal, Jaume M Vidal, Clara Prats, Joaquim Valls, Esperanza A Herreros, Daniel López and Domingo Gargallo (2008). Effect of the haematocrit layer geometry on Plasmodium falciparum static thin-layer in vitro cultures. Malaria Journal 7, e203.

  1. Jordi Ferrer, Clara Prats, Daniel Lopez. Mathematical modelling methodologies in predictive food microbiology: a SWOT analysis. International Journal of Food Microbiology 134 (1), 2 – 8.

  1. Clara Prats, Jordi Ferrer, Daniel López, Antoni Giró and Josep Vives-Rego (2010). On the evolution of cell size distribution during bacterial growth cycle: Experimental observations and individual-based model simulations. African Journal of Microbiology Research 4, 400-407.

  1. Clara Prats Soler, Jordi Ferrer Savall, Anna Gras Moreu, Marta Ginovart Gisbert (2010). Individual-based modelling and simulation of microbial processes: yeast fermentation and multi-species composting. Mathematical and computer modelling dynamical systems, 16 (3).

  1. Jordi Ferrer, Clara Prats, Daniel Lopez, Jaume Vidal-Mas, Domingo Gargallo-Viola, Antonio Guglietta, Antoni Giro. Thermodynamic Concepts in the Study of Microbial Populations: Age Structure in Plasmodium falciparum Infected Red Blood Cells. PlosONE 6 (10) (2011), e26690

  1. Jordi Ferrer, Pierre-Yves Boelle, Jérôme Salomon, Katiuska Miliani, François L’Hériteau, Pascal Astagneau, Laura Temime (2014) Management of nurse shortage and its impact on pathogen dissemination in the intensive care unit. Epidemics 9, 62-69.

Proceedings

  • Jordi Ferrer, Jones Albuquerque, Clara Prats, Daniel Lopez, Joaquim Valls (2012). Agent-based Modelling in malaria elimination strategy design. EMCSR 2012, 135-143. Disponible à: http://emcsr-conference.org, accédé le 08/01/2014

  • Genivaldo Silva, Ronaldo da Silva, Jones Albuquerque, Solvana Bocanegra, Tiago Alessandro Ferreira, Jordi Ferrer, Daniel López-Codina, Marco Antônio da souza, Constança Barbosa (2012). Modeling a Real Data Cellular automaton to analyze the Expansion Process of Schistosomiasis. EMCSR 2012, 144-153. Disponible à: http://emcsr-conference.org, accédé le 08/01/2014.

  • Jordi Ferrer, Maëlle Salmon, Laura Temime (2013). Nosolink: An agent-based approach to link patient flows and staff organization with the circulation of nosocomial pathogens in an intensive care unit. Procedia of computer sciences 18, 1485 -1494.

Book chapters

  • Clara Prats, Jordi Ferrer, Daniel Lopez Codina.  Modern Multidisciplinary Applied Microbiology. Exploiting Microbes and their Interactions. pp. 461 – 465. Wiley-VCH ,10/2006 .ISBN 3-527-31611-6