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Barrachina Fernández, María de las Mercedes
PhD: Universidad San Pablo CEU y Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
BIO
Associate Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods at CUNEF (Madrid). She has a PhD from the San Pablo CEU University and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and visiting professor at centers such as Florida Atlantic University (FAU) or Universidad del Pacífico (Peru). She works as SAP Security Innovation Lead at IBM in the SAP EMEA Competence Center and leads national and international projects. Among others, she has worked in Peru, Japan, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland or France. She has published various scientific articles and studies in other media (book chapters, editorials, dissemination).
Researcher IDs:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=O43XYwQAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4718-4495
Education
PhD in Economics, Universidad San Pablo CEU (2022) and
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2024
B.A. Economics, UNED (2017)
BSc. and MSc. Telecommunication Engineering., Universidad de Málaga (2011)
Research Interests
Application of machine learning techniques to biomedicine, entrepreneurship, effects of innovation on entrepreneurship
Career
SAP Security Innovation Lead, IBM, June, 2018 – Present
Assistant Professor, Universidad de Comillas, Septiembre 2022 - Present
Publications in Scientific Journals
Barrachina-Fernández, Mercedes; Valenzuela-López, Laura; Moreno-Verdú, Marcos; Sánchez-Ávila, Carmen; Romero, Juan Pablo: "Skin Conductance assessment in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review", IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023.
Barrachina-Fernández, Mercedes; García Centeno, María del Carmen; Calderón Patier, Carmen: "Entrepreneurship in Spain and Portugal"in Strategic Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Business Model Innovation, 75-91, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Barrachina-Fernández, Mercedes; Maitín, Ana María; Sánchez-Ávila, Carmen; Romero, Juan Pablo: “Wearable technology to detect motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease patients: Current state and challenges”, Sensors, 21(12), Art. 4188, 2021.
Barrachina Fernández, Mercedes; García-Centeno, Maria Del Carmen; Calderón Patier, Carmen: “International Entrepreneurship Rate Prediction Using Neural Networks”, in “ Empirical International Entrepreneurship: A Handbook of Methods, Approaches, and Applications”, 441-462, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
Barrachina Fernández, Mercedes; García-Centeno, Maria Del Carmen; Calderón Patier, Carmen: “Analysis of the European women entrepreneurship in STEM fields”, Women's Entrepreneurship in STEM Disciplines: Issues and Perspectives, 47-60, 2021.