Research Experience
Current Research Group (ITBA)
Bioinspired Robotics Laboratory (ITBA)
Photos from lab activities and project demonstrations.
Ramiro Plüss began working with Pablo Martin Gleiser in March 2022 during his undergraduate Physics thesis at the National University of Rosario (UNR), initially through remote collaboration, and continued this work in July 2023 as part of his PhD at ITBA. His current research focuses on connectomics-driven embodied robotics, with broader interests in adaptive networks, neural dynamics, and structure-dynamics-behavior relationships. In parallel, he develops bioinspired robotic platforms as experimental testbeds for closed-loop sensorimotor interaction and robust embodied control.
Lead Researcher
Pablo Martin Gleiser first supervised Ramiro Plüss during his undergraduate Physics thesis at UNR, and later became his PhD advisor at ITBA. He is a physicist (BSc and PhD, National University of Cordoba, Argentina) and completed postdoctoral research at the Complex Systems Department, University of Barcelona, Spain. His academic work includes more than 50 scientific publications and interdisciplinary research spanning social-network analysis, connectomics, circadian rhythms, sleep studies, and robotics. His research interests include biological rhythms, synchronization, and complex systems.
Lab Focus
The lab combines computational neuroscience, connectomics, complex systems, and bioinspired robotics to study how network structure and neural dynamics shape behavior, and how these principles can be translated into embodied robotic platforms. Its current lines of work include connectome-informed embodied control inspired by C. elegans and Drosophila, as well as experimental and educational robotic testbeds for studying closed-loop sensorimotor interaction.
Collaborative Research (ITBA-UV-IUE)
Collaboration with Hernán Villota and Patricio Orio (ITBA-UV-IUE)
Ramiro Plüss maintains a remote collaboration with Patricio Orio at the Valparaíso Neural Dynamics Laboratory (VANDAL), the University of Valparaíso (UV), and with Hernán Villota at the University Institution of Envigado (IUE), focused on connectome-based whole-brain modeling and hemispheric-specific network dynamics. This collaboration originated at the Latin America Summer School of Computational Neuroscience LACONEU held at the University of Valparaiso, where Patricio Orio served as mentor. Work initiated there later evolved into two posters and a conference paper. The collaboration currently centers on dynamic mean field (DMF) modeling to assess whether this framework improves the simulation of human brain functional activity.
Research Experience at IFIR (UNR-CONICET)
Biomedical Physics Group (IFIR, UNR - CONICET)
During his undergraduate Physics studies, Ramiro Plüss contributed to the UNR-CRH linkage project at IFIR (UNR-CONICET), which focused on the effects of ionizing radiation on biological systems and their applications in medical and biomedical physics. His selected contribution was Gomez Fava et al. (2022), a preliminary study on the viscoelastic properties of gamma-irradiated red blood cells using an erythrocyte rheometer, presented at the 107th Meeting of the Asociación Física Argentina (AFA) in Bariloche.
Research Mentor
Mariel Elisa Galassi was his research mentor during this period. She is an Independent Researcher at CONICET based at IFIR (UNR-CONICET). Her work focuses on atomic and molecular physics, medical and biomedical physics, and radiobiology, with particular emphasis on the effects of ionizing radiation on biological systems, including nanodosimetry and hadron dosimetry.
Lab Focus
The group combines hemorheology, bio-optics, and biosignal analysis to study biomedical effects of ionizing radiation; its work integrates radiobiology and dosimetry perspectives with applications in medical and biomedical physics, and includes research activity within the Biomedical Physics Group (IFIR, UNR-CONICET), in collaboration with Dr. Galassi.