Martin Carballo-Pacheco is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Systems Biology working in the Vitkup Lab. Before Columbia, he was a postdoc in the deparment of physics and astronomy of the University of Edinburgh, UK. He received a PhD from RWTH Aachen University and the Research Center Jülich in Germany working on simulations of protein aggregation. He is interested in understanding the physics behind living systems and the application of quantitative modeling to biomedical problems including cancer metabolism and the evolution of antimicrobial resistance.