Yérali Gandica
ygandica@gmail.com
Associate Professor
Valencian International University (Spain)
ORCID ID:
https://orcid.org/0000 - 0002 - 6262- 1801
twitter.com/ygandica
Yérali Gandica is currently an Associate Professor at the Valencian International University in Spain. Yérali holds a degree in Physics from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela) and a PhD in Physics from the Venezuelan Institute for Research (IVIC). Subsequently, she spent 7 years in postdoctoral positions in Europe. First, at the Center for Computational Physics at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, where she initiated studies on Agent-based models and Big Data. Secondly, she secured a postdoctoral fellowship at the Namur Center for Complex Systems (naXys) within the Mathematics Department of the University of Namur, where she worked on Agent-based models (ABM) and ventured into Network Science. Following that, she joined the Center for Research in Finance and Management (CeReFiM) at the Business Department of the Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences, and Business Administration at the Université de Namur. During this postdoctoral fellowship, Yérali began applying the concepts of Network Science to financial data. Finally, she worked as an Associate Scientific Researcher at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics, and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) at Université catholique de Louvain, focusing on Geo-localized Data. In addition to her PhD, Yérali complemented her academic background with a Licenciatura in Sociology. In summary, Yérali has extensive experience working on critical phenomena, computational social science, Big Data, and network science across various interdisciplinary groups, including mathematics, finance, geography, engineering, and medicine. Her previous position was as an Assistant Professor at the International Bachelor in Data Science, affiliated with the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation (LPTM) at CY Cergy Paris Université, Paris, France. At the same university, she obtained her habilitation to supervise PhD theses (HDR) in 2021. To date, she has mentored four master's theses (two in co-supervision) and is currently co-supervising a PhD student.