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My main interest is to understand at different levels computations in cognitive-dynamic

mechanisms. I still use expertise of my previous work of patent examiner as a patent
agent and to set-up technological innovation in the academia.

I am Electronic and Bio-medicine Engineer, with some works in instrumentation sensors

and mathematical models in simulation and experimental level, with a recent
development in extracellular action potentials in muscle fibers. And, I am interested in
do physics and applied mathematics to understand how is managed information and
behavior in cognitive systems composed by cells and organelles. During my PhD, I have
worked in some mechanisms behind attention orienting tasks combining information
theory and EEG experiment as well as fMRI. This was a collaboration between the
University of Dundee and Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh 

Now, I am devoted to explain some mechanisms behind attention orienting tasks. This
project is a collaboration between as a Sinapse fellow, the University of Dundee and
Peruvian students which I am please to work. We are in the first steps to establish an
active collaboration research. During a visiting lecturership in Dundee in 2013, we have
setup a Linear Modelling analysis for EEG signals.

Specialties: Analysis level: SPM, EEGLAB, BrainVision, MatLab, LabView, C, Assembler

80x86, Java, Patents database, Applications with Neuroimaging and Brain inspired
systems
Experimental techniques: EEG preparation (including abralytic EEG for fMRI), single
motor unit recording, hot wire anemometry, differential pressure measures.
Experiencia

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Part time lecturer
Universidad de Lima
enero de 2016 – actualidad (2 años 3 meses)

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Full Professor (Profesor Principal)
Universidad Nacional Tecnologica del Cono Sur de Lima
mayo de 2017 – actualidad (11 meses)

Just beginning

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Visiting Researcher
 University of Dundee
septiembre de 2013 – actualidad (4 años 7 meses)

Collaborative research into the mechanism of attention control.

Analysis of Experiments in Auditory Attention was address to improve current
understanding of the control of stimulus-driven network when different novel stimuli
were presented. Done on Neuroscience group in the visiting research in Scotland on
September - November 2013.
Current analysis looks forward to study simultaneous EEG & fMRI experiment with 4
different conditions.This to study with 4 categorical variables plus continuos regressors
(EEG = β0 + ∑ βiSi + β5A5 + Error). The current explantation is with a reduced set of
categorical regressors, namely EEG = β0 + ∑ βiSi + β3A3 + Error
MAIN OUTCOMES:
Analysis of single subject answer to CTOA showed a characteristic signature for
attention control.

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Part Time Lecturer
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería de Perú
abril de 2014 – mayo de 2017 (3 años 2 meses)

Lecturer of "Filtros Digitales" (2014-1, 2014-2), "Procesamiento Digital de Señales"

(2014-2), y Control 2 (2014-2). In the lectures are also included the development
analytic skills for approaching to realistic scientific papers in undergraduate students.
Lecturer for research group in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Member of Research Committee for Electrical & Electronics Faculty.
MAIN OUTCOMES:
- 17 students participated and 8 finished actively in a Cognitive Neuroscience workshop
of 63 hours between January and February. Currently working with 4: 2 graduate
students and 2 under-graduate students.
- Neuroscience Projects submitted for a grant.
 Specialist in Science, Technology and Innovation
at Information and Communication Technologies
CONCYTEC
septiembre de 2015 – abril de 2017 (1 año 8 meses)

Specialist in Science, Technology and Innovation at the National Program of Information

Technology and Communication 2016-2021

MAIN OUTCOMES
Draft of "PROGRAMA NACIONAL DE CIENCIA, TECNOLOGÍA E INNOVACIÓN EN
TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN (TIC)"
"El Peruano" official government newspaper (Dec 12th, 2015) RESOLUCIÓN DE
PRESIDENCIA Nº 184 -2015-CONCYTEC-P Formalizan la aprobación del “Reglamento de
Calificación y Registro de Investigadores en Ciencia y Tecnología del Sistema Nacional
de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - SINACYT”
"El Peruano" official government newspaper (Dec 31th, 2015) DIRECTIVA N° 05 -2015-
CONCYTEC-DPP Directiva que establece los procedimientos de calificación y/o
autorización para el desarrollo de proyectos de investigación científi ca, desarrollo
tecnológico e innovación tecnológica en el marco de la Ley Nº 30309 y su Reglamento,
aprobado por Decreto Supremo Nº 188-2015-EF Aprobada mediante Resolución de
Presidencia Nº 198-2015-CONCYTEC-P

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Research & Academic Coordinator - Department of
Electronics Engineering
Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades (UCH)
marzo de 2014 – septiembre de 2015 (1 año 7 meses)

Formative research coordinator: 12 lecturers and students from semesters VIII to X

Research line: understanding cognitive control through statistical and modelling
analysis.
"Transformative Research" for undergraduate students (semesters I to VII) following
flip-research is being implemented. Students from 2015-1 are under eyes for the
current coordinator and we hope to have the first best results in 2019-2.
Planning Lecturer research: Looking forward to improve faculty research in applied
sciences.
Lecturer of "Prácticas PreProfesionales": First step to set up technological innovation in
formative research (2014-I & 2014-2), the course was successfully set-up to mix
professional practice with the proposal of thesis projects with 15 project in 2015-1 and
17 projects in 2015-2. 
Under-graduate thesis advisor in Control and Intelligent systems
MAIN OUTCOMES:
- 10 first undergraduate dissertations in Electrical Engineering at UCH.
- Student Projects submitted to INTERCON 2015
- Fornight meetings of the group of Cognitive Neuroscience between UNI & UCH
students.
- MUGRUZA-VASSALLO, C.A. (accepted) Parity discrimination task and database system
for therapy evaluation in schizophrenia disorder.

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Part time lecturer
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
junio de 2014 – septiembre de 2014 (4 meses)

Diplomado Internacional en Neuromarketing y Neurociencia aplicada a los negocios.

Modulo de neuoroimágenes y aplicaciones al marketing.
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Professional in Technological Innovation & Patents -
Engineering
Indecopi Oficial - Subdirección de Soporte a la Innovación
mayo de 2013 – marzo de 2014 (11 meses)

MAIN OUTCOMES:
Around 100 technical patent examinations.
Support to 20 peruvian patent applications in the "Patent Rapida" program.
First draw of "Jueves del Inventor"

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Lecturer
Grupo UTP
septiembre de 2012 – junio de 2013 (10 meses)

Capstone Project Coordinator: Faculty coordination and thanks to other 7 lecturers

supervision of undergraduate final/thesis works was the goal over other non-research
modalities. The coursework was designed to carry students with four courses to reach
the undergraduate thesis and the end of the studies. Students were encouraged to
participate in the technological innovation system and one patent application was
presented in the modality of utility model.
Research collaboration with University of Dundee: With the main goal of Understanding
Cognitive mechanisms at several levels. Few works were addressed and one student
started his master in Italy.
Lecturer of Electronics, Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering of the course
"Artificial Intelligence"
Lecturer of Mechatronics Engineering of the course "Digital Imaging Processing and
Artificial Vision"

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Demonstrator
University of Dundee
septiembre de 2009 – mayo de 2013 (3 años 9 meses)

Research Skills 3: Workshops in Statistical analysis, mostly in SPSS, few in R and a little
on Matlab. Correlation analysis, ANOVA, Factor analysis and General Linear Model.
Research Skills 2: Essays in writting.
 Patent Advisor
IP Independent Consultor
abril de 2009 – mayo de 2013 (4 años 2 meses)

Writting patent applications: As a Patent Agent I try to work hand-in-hand with many
remarkable and inspiring inventors and the goal is get a good piece of writting that go
through to every patent stages without problems.

Review / answer to technical patent examiners: The examiner’s study is reported in an

Office Action mailed to the first inventor or his/her representative. If this study is
negative, the inventor/representative must answer with arguments and application
amendments in an attempt to rescue the patent patent application. This process,
known as patent prosecution, might last for many months or even longer and could
need many amendments. In this case, the goal is to generate an answer that fills out
all missleadings, reducing the amendments and assuring the patent to be granted.

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Collaboration as an honorary Research Associate
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
febrero de 2007 – febrero de 2012 (5 años 1 mes)

Help giving lectures in Neuroscience courses.

Research in electrophysiology

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Patent examiner - G & H classifications
Indecopi Oficial - Dirección de Invenciones y Nuevas Tecnologías
noviembre de 2006 – diciembre de 2009 (3 años 2 meses)

I assessed applications for patents, which are granted to inventors, giving them the
right to stop others using, selling or making their inventions. I ascertained that the
invention is new, not merely an adjustment to something which already exists, carrying
out searches using in Perú and foreign patent specifications, technical literature and
databases. I had to be sure that an application meeted all the formal requirements of
The Peruvian Patent Office and was technically good. And, I developed specialist
expertise within a particular area such as a mix biotechnology and electrical
engineering.

MAIN OUTCOMES:
Around 250 technical patent examinations reported to the Patent Office.

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Research Associate
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
mayo de 2008 – septiembre de 2009 (1 año 5 meses)

We have worked in developing neonatal medical devices. We realise this is a good

patent application (in PCT) that can change neonatal attention to early newborn (26 to
32 weeks). You can find this invention in both Spanish and English. The main outcome
is that we set-up an equipment which combines thermal therapy and mechanical
ventilation without condensation problems. In Google, you can look for. patentscope
WO2011030177 

MAIN OUTCOMES:
CASTILLÓN LEVANO, Claudio Bruno; MUGRUZA VASSALLO, Carlos Andrés; COELLO
DURAND, Jorge Luis; "Full Neonatal Intensive Care Unit" as PCT/IB2009-007014. Patent
application 11.09.2009 . Published 17.03.2011 as WO/2011/030177

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Part-time Lecturer
Grupo UTP
agosto de 2007 – septiembre de 2009 (2 años 2 meses)

Electromagnetic Field Theory in Engineering (2007-2008).

Statistical Signal Processing (2007-2008).
Sensors and Actuators (2008-2009).
Electronic Workshops (2008-2009).
Artificial Intelligence (2008-2009).

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Research assistant
Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
febrero de 1999 – octubre de 2003 (4 años 9 meses)

Work at the management, theoretical and experimental level in:

2002 - 2003 Proposal and General coordinator in the project: Development of an
electromechanical device for weld wires of Ni-Ti alloy, which allowed to test a
development of a hot wire flow sensor based in Nickel-Titanium alloy
2001 - 2002 Proposal and researcher in the project: Implementation of Conventional
Mechanical Ventilation (CMV), Synchronous Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (SIMV) y
Pressure Support to Pulmonary Ventilator of our Group of Research and Development
of Medical Equipment and Systems (GIDEMS)
2001 – 2002 Proposal and Technical coordinator in the project: Development of the
control cyclic temperature to let DNA replication.
2000 - 2001 Technical coordinator in the project: Development of the one first air flow
gas prototype.
Two flow sensors have been developed for mechanical ventilation: Hot wire based on
 Nickel – Titanium alloy and a Modified Venturi’s pipe. HILO CALIENTE - HOT WIRE /
TUBO DE VENTURI - VENTURI´s PIPE 
1999 - 2002 Research assistant in the project: Pulmonary Ventilator of air and oxygen
to adult patients
Educación

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The University of Dundee
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuroscience and Development
2009 – 2012

September 20, 2009 Starting EEG experimental work with Biosemi EEG system.
February, 2010 EEG/fMRI experimental work with Brain Vision and Siemens 3 T
March, 2012 End of experimental work.
2010 - May 17th-19th Enterprise and entrepreneurship course for Researchers. Univ of
Glasgow (24 hours)
2010 - April 26th-29th Statistical Parametric Mapping. Univ. of Edinburgh.
Dissertation title: "EEG and fMRI studies of the effects of stimulus properties on the
control of attention"
Actividades y grupos: WARLAW J.M. et al. (2012). A systematic review of the utility of
1.5 versus 3 Tesla magnetic resonance brain imaging in clinical practice and research.
Eur Radiol. June
 Instituto de Sistemas Complejos Valparaiso
Attendance and participation, Computational Neuroscience
2010 – 2010

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Universidade de São Paulo
Master’s Degree in Electronic Systems, Computational Neuroscience, Mestre em
Engenheria Eletrica: Departamento de Telecomunicacoes e Controle
2004 – 2006

My research could be divided in three parts. The first was, model the muscle fiber (FB)
located in a muscle, using an approximation in which the FBs are encircled with other
six FBs in the muscle. To reach this, concentric hexagons were constructed to build the
surface of the motor unit (MU), and later the FBs were situated in the MU, covering and
reproducing very well a range between 75 and 2000 FBs, corresponding to mammals
extremity muscles (presented at Bioinformatics conference, 2006). The second was,
measure and model the action potential in every FB following the Maxwell equations,
the novelties were a fast mathematical approach at the end of every FB, and modeling
of the electrodes located at distances greater than 1,79 mm of the FBs. And the third
was, model the MUAP, using both previous parts and the association and distribution of
the diameter FBs in the muscle which represents some tuned curves reported without
explain (presented at SPR meeting, 2008).
 Actividades y grupos: MUGRUZA VASSALLO, C.A.; KOHN, A.F. (2006) "Simulation Of The
Spatial Distribution Of Muscle Fibers Within The Motor Unit Territory In Cats. 8th
International Bioinformatics Conference. June 15, 2006. Århus, Denmark. MUGRUZA
VASSALLO, C.A. (2004). Van der Waals and Ideal gas models for compressibility by
means of pressure in pneumatic pipes from 1 to 100 Lpm. 26th Annual International
Conference of the engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco.
Proceedings v.1. p. 2034-2037.

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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering
1995 – 2000

2nd student (of 55)

Undergraduate thesis with honours
Actividades y grupos: MUGRUZA VASSALLO, C.A. CARRERA SORIA, W. (2001). Flow gas
transducer on basis of a hot wire with a nickel-titanium alloy in its flow calibration
system. In: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001, 2001, Istambul.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2001. v. 3.
p. 3124-3127.
 EUCIM
 Latinamericam course in Neuroinformatics
Aptitudes
 Matlab
 Labview
 Java
 C
 Experimental Physics
 Neuroscience
 Science
 Statistics
 Image Processing
 Research
 Signal Processing
 Lifesciences
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Patents - Intellectual Property
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Cognitive Modeling

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" HORIZON 2020 " Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

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Neurophysiology & Neurology Researchers

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Medical Imaging Network

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Society for Neuroscience

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IEEE SMC Industrial / Professional Network