Bio
Julia Múgica is a Mexican scientist and artist with an interdisciplinary background in biology, psychology, and computational physics. She is deeply interested in understanding how collectives make decisions that result in behavioral synchrony. Recently, she has been dedicated to creative coding, where the process of creation amplifies different aspects of the same phenomenon. Julia’s work encompasses data analysis and visualization, modeling of animated particles, designing sound based on algorithms of random motion, rhythm and collective patterns using interactive robots, and scientific and artistic applications of natural language processing and voice recognition from a critical point of view. She is an active member of the Toplap community in Barcelona and of Axolot Collective.
Education
PhD in Statistical and Computational Physics Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), Barcelona, Spain 2017–2023
MSc in Research in Behavior and Cognition University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain 2014–2015
BSc in Biology Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico 2006–2011