Daniela is a PhD student at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics BCAM and the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU. Her PhD research is in the CFD-MS group. Here, she studies the virus passive transport, modeling the viruses as decorated nanoparticles. In particular, she characterize the nanoparticles using numerical and computational methods, such as the Rigid multi-blob (RMB) and the Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (SDPD). Additionally, she is working on characterizing nanoparticles with partial slip conditions, such as the Janus particles.
Her academic journey includes completing a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2022. Her research was focused on biological modelling (root growth in plants), mainly at geometrical branching shapes, applying the finite elements method FEM using a reaction-diffusion model. In 2021, she started her career as a research technician in the CFD-MS research group in BCAM, modeling and simulating passive virus transport.