PhD supervision

Doctoral training is a central part of the research programme. Below are PhD students I have supervised or co-supervised.

Finished

• Diego Ayma Anza, UC3M, cum laude, December 2016. Penalized Composite Link Models for spatial and spatio-temporal aggregated counts (with M. Durbán). Thesis
• Josu Najera Zuloaga, BCAM–Severo Ochoa, UPV/EHU, cum laude, December 2017. Multidimensional and longitudinal Beta-binomial regression for Health-Related Quality of Life outcomes (with I. Arostegui). Thesis
• Alba Carballo González, UC3M, cum laude, 2020. Forecasting with Generalized Additive Models. Thesis
• Leire Citores Martínez, AZTI–BCAM, UPV/EHU, July 2021. From habitat to management: a simulation framework for improving statistical methods in fisheries science (with L. Ibaibarriaga). Thesis
• Lore Zumeta Olaskoaga, BCAM–Severo Ochoa, UPV/EHU, cum laude, February 2024. Statistical Modelling of Recurrent Events in Sports Injury Research with Applications to Football Injury Data. Thesis
• Ibon Martínez Arranz, UPV/EHU, June 2025. Genetic Algorithms Applied to Translational Strategy in MASH. Learning from Mouse Models (with Jose María Mato, CIC bioGUNE). Thesis
• María Alejandra Hernández Velandia, UPV/EHU, July 2025. Novel P-Spline-based Approaches for Curve and Derivative Estimation in Longitudinal Growth Studies (with María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez). Thesis
• Cristina Galán García-Arcicollar, UPV/EHU, July 2025. Joint modeling with beta-binomial distribution for patient-reported outcomes and survival data (with Josu Najera Zuloaga). Thesis
• Ander García, UPV/EHU, April 2026. Pedestrian Flow Simulations with applications (with Marco Ellero, BCAM–Ikerbasque)

Ongoing

• Juan Carlos Espinosa, UPV/EHU (expected November 2026). Statistical Learning techniques for Early Warning Systems for Medical Health Records (with Fernando García-García, BCAM)