Jimena Gabriela Siles Paredes

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Biotechnoscience at the Federal University of ABC in Brazil. Supervised by João L. Salinet, My participation in this group is about to characterize the epicardial atrial substrate during fibrillation in experimental studies using optical mapping.

I am a Biomedical Engineer by profession, and I worked as a Clinical Engineer at the Boliviano Japones Institute of Gastroenterology for five years. In 2017 I won a grand given by The Organization of American States to realize her master’s studies in Biomedical Engineering at the same university where I am currently doing her Ph.D. During the pandemic, I returned to my country to work as director of Biomedical Engineering at the Universidad Privada del Valle. This year, I returned to Brazil to start my doctoral studies thanks to the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), where the aim of the research is to develop experimental in situ models of electrically stimulated-induced Atrial Fibrillation by customizing metrics and electrophysiological maps used in the clinic for the ablation treatment of patients with AF.