Gil Serrancolí Masferrer

Gil Serrancolí has been a Tenure Track 1 Professor, within the Serra Húnter Programme, at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC) since 2016. He is an industrial engineer and holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (2015). His doctoral thesis is on the research of novel algorithms in order to estimate muscle redundancy during human walking.

He did a six-month doctoral stay at the University of Florida, USA, under the supervision of B.J. Fregly. From 2015 to 2016 he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the KU University of Leuven, Belgium, on a project that involved the design and simulation of assistive devices for people with muscle impairment. In 2017, he spent one month at Stanford University, California, USA, as an OpenSim visiting scholar.

In cooperation with KU Leuven researchers, he integrated automatic differentiation tools into the OpenSim biomechanics software in order to obtain movement simulations faster than with traditional methods. He is currently working on simulation studies and movement analysis for medical and sports purposes at the Simulation and Movement Analysis Lab (SIMMA Lab), UPC.

He collaborates with organizations, such as Hospital del Mar, ICATME (Catalan Institute of Traumatology and Sports Medicine), High Performance Centre of Sant Cugat (Centro de Alto Rendimiento Sant Cugat, CAR Sant Cugat) in Barcelona, and the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and the KU Leuven in Belgium.

    Gil Serrancolí Masferrer

    Gil Serrancolí Masferrer

    Investigation group: SIMMA Lab