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María Vela Pérez

Profesora Auxiliar (Assistant Professor)
Department of Statistics and Operatinal Research II

School of Economics and Business

Complutense University of Madrid
Mathematical Models in Science and Technology with and interdiscipiary approach

Bio

Assistant Professor of Statistics in UCM since 2016. PhD in Applied Mathematics since 2011. Visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute from 2005-2006 and at Laboratorio sui Sistemi Complessi della Scuola Superiore di Catania from 2007-2008. From 2013-2014 she was senior researcher at Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives in Paris. She has participated in many funded research projects.

Research interests

Big data, Mathematical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Complex Systems, Opinion Prediction. Higher Education and TIC’s.

Contact details

 

maria.vela@ucm.es

 

 

Selected Publications

  • M. Okinczyc and M. Vela, Mathematical Model for Path Selection by Ants Between Nest and Food Source. Bodnar; Math. Biosc, 285, pp. 14-24 (2017).
  • Vela Pérez, María; Fontelos M. A. and Garnier, S., From Individual to Collective Dynamics in Argentine Ants (Linephitema humile), Math. Biosc. 262, pp. 56-64 (2015).
  • M. Vela, M. A. Fontelos and J. J. L. Velázquez, Ant foraging and geodesic paths in labyrinths: Analytical and computational results. J. Theo. Biol. 320, pp. 100-112 (2013).
  • R. Criado, J. Pello, M. Romance and M. Vela, A node-based multi-scale vulnerability of complex networks.. Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. 19, No. 2, pp. 703-710 (2009).
  • Criado Herrero, R., Romance, M., Vela Pérez, M., Hyper-structures, a new approach to complex systems. Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. 20, No. 3, pp. 877-883 (2010).