Who are we?
We are a multidisciplinary group enthusiastic about the research and development of solutions devoted to improve people’s quality of life.
What do we do?
The MRU belongs to the nBio research group (http://nbio.umh.es/), a part of the CYBORG Experimental Center (http://cyborg.edu.umh.es/en/) at Miguel Hernández University of Elche. The Cyborg Experimental Center is located in the Severo Ochoa building of the Faculty of Medicine in Sant Joan Campus.
- Surgical Robotics 80%
- AI for Health 60%
- Health-App Development 50%
- Electronics for Biomedical Applications 90%
- Biological Material Characterisation 75%
Team members
José M. Sabater-Navarro
Researcher. Unit's Head
Full professor. PhD on robotics and sensors.
Orcid: 0000-0002-3890-6225
Carlos G. Juan
Researcher
«Ramón y Cajal» Senior Research Fellow. PhD on electronics.
ORCiD: 0000-0003-0793-7958
Miguel Á. de la Casa-Lillo
Researcher
Full professor. PhD on material science.
Orcid: 0000-0002-7017-2225
José M. Vicente-Samper
Researcher
Postdoctoral Fellow. PhD on robotics and sensors.
Orcid: 0000-0001-7902-1979
Alberto Rodríguez-Martínez
Researcher
Associate professor. PhD on signal processing.
Orcid: 0000-0002-9444-3368
Maria Brotons-López
Student
Student
ORCiD:
Javier Toledo Ávila
Laboratory Technician
Technical support to research
Former members
Juan Rodriguez Soler
PhD in medical informatics
David Zambrana Vinaroz
PhD on wearable electronics for epilepsy
Orcid: 0000-0003-0531-575X
Alvaro Garcia Martinez
PhD on surgical robotics
Orcid: 0000-0002-9996-8454
Carolina Blanco Angulo
Natividad Bermejo Herrero
PhD on surgical robotics
Orcid: 0000-0002-1784-4432
Sofia Aledo Carmona
worked in Microbio project
Alvaro Bernabeu Pujante
worked in Microbio project
Current external working team
Roque Saltaren Pazmiño
«Maestro». Professor in Polytechnic University of Madrid
Oscar Moreno Perez
MD in endocrinology
Ernesto Avila Navarro
ex-core team. Currently he is PI of his own team.
Miguel Almonacid Kroeger
Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Andrés Vivas Albán
University of Cauca, Colombia.
Karin Correa Arana
Assistant professor in University of Cauca
Vicente Esteve Sala
Associate professor in University of Alicante
Esther Chicharro Luna
MD in podology
International students and secondments
| surgical robotics | Iliana Rumbo Barros | pre-doctoral training | 2024 |
| surgical robotics | Jan Carlos Alvira Meneses | graduate secondment | 2023 |
| surgical robotics | Leonardo Alberto Paz | graduate secondment | 2023 |
| surgical robotics | Iliana Rumbo Barros | pre-doctoral training | 2023 |
| wearable for newborn | Matteo Ricci | graduate secondment | 2023 |
| surgical robotics | Juan David Ruiz Florez | graduate secondment | 2022 |
| surgical robotics | Oscar Andrés Vivas Alban | post-doctoral secondment | 2021 |
| surgical robotics | Juan Sebastian Montenegro Bravo | graduate secondment | 2022 |
| surgical simulation | Karin Correa Arana | pre-doctoral training | 2018 |
| extended reality | Jesús Humberto Dorado de la Cruz | graduate secondment | 2018 |
| extended reality | Pedro Luis Solarte Correa | graduate secondment | 2018 |
| diabetes | Juliana Manrique Cordoba | graduate secondment | 2018 |
| diabetes | Juan David Romero Ante | graduate secondment | 2018 |
| haptics | David Escobar Valencia | graduate secondment | 2018 |
| surgical robotics | Katherine Juliana Bolaños | graduate secondment | 2017 |
| surgical robotics | Diana Paola Mopan | graduate secondment | 2017 |
| surgical robotics | Oscar Andrés Vivas Alban | post-doctoral secondment | 2017 |
| surgical simulation | Karin Correa Arana | pre-doctoral training | 2016 |
| surgical simulation | Maria Cristina Chaparro Velasco | graduate secondment | 2016 |
| wearables (GSR) | Luis Daniel Bolaños Trujillo | graduate secondment | 2016 |
| extended reality | Eliana Margarita Aguilar Larrarte | pre-doctoral training | 2016 |
| hand rehabilitation | Yalena Narváez Plaza | graduate secondment | 2014 |
| hand rehabilitation | Samara Catalina Enríquez Urbano | graduate secondment | 2014 |