David Miralles Esteban

David Miralles Esteban
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Building
Sant Jaume Hilari
Address
C. Quatre Camins 30, 08022, Barcelona
Floor
2
Section
Department of Engineering
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Position
Professor


He holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Barcelona (1995). From 1996 to 2001 he worked at the Department of Fundamental Physics at the same institution. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematical Physics. Since 2001, he has been a lecturer at La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull. He has undertaken several research stays at international institutions, including the Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica, Campinas (Brazil, 1998); the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy, September 2004); the Observatoire de Paris (France, March 2005–06); the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge (USA, May 2014); and Imperial College London (UK, 2024).

In the field of technological dissemination, he has been a speaker at the Mobile World Congress, the CCCB, and sector-specific events such as Kids Cluster and EdTech. He is currently a member of the Human-Environment Research (HER) group, where he works on the mathematical modelling of the perception of autonomous systems and their relation to human behaviour. Outside the academic sphere, he co-founded Btripple, a company dedicated to the development of educational technology.

Projects

Human manipulation of objects connects the senses of sight and touch from an early age, and this sensory connection is strengthened over...

In the dietary eHealth industry today, there is a palpable concern in the growing adoption of fitness & wellness devices and related...