Miguel A. Herrero (Madrid, 1951) is a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Complutense University of Madrid, UCM, 1979) and Professor of Applied Mathematics at UCM since 1988. He was Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at UCM between 2004 and 2008, and Director of IMI (Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematics) at UCM between 2008 and 2011.
From 1999 to 2008, Dr. Herrero was a member of the Scientific Board of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME). Between 2008 and 2014 he was a member of the Board of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, ESMTB. He was appointed European Mathematical Society Lecturer for 2014. In this same year 2014 he was elected corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Real Academia de Ciencias) in Spain. From 2005 to 2014, and in collaboration with Dr. Juan Soler from the University of Granada, he took part in the direction of the BIOMAT International Summer School, held at Granada (Spain).
Dr. Herrero´s current scientific interests lie in the modelling and analysis of problems at the interface between Biology and Mathematics. Topics considered during the past years include mathematical models of tumor invasion and radiotherapy planning, immune response to acute infections, blood coagulation and vasculogenesis, and bone formation.
Webpage: http://maherrero.wix.com/home
Plenary talk: Emergent behaviour in T-cell immune response