David Pastor-Escuredo is a Ph.D. from Technical University Madrid. Founder and CEO of the LifeD Lab and the platform Humcoin. He has been the leading expert on Big Data, AI and Blockchain for Development and Humanitarian Action and has led a portfolio or projects on Data and AI projects and initiatives at the Centre of Innovation and Technology for Development at UPM (itdUPM). He is a long term collaborator of UN Global Pulse and works with UN agencies to develop data innovation solutions. He has been Data Science Advisor of Pulse Lab Jakarta and Lead Data Scientist for UNHCR, establishing methods and protocols leveraging data for disasters management and to support refugees and displaced population. He was part of the D4D-Orange initiative of Data Revolution with UN and academic partners. He worked for UNICEF Innovation and DAPM and was part of the Global Data Science Network of UNICEF for data-driven policy and digital transformation in Governments. After, he also worked again as part of the Innovation and DESS teams of UNHCR HQ in Geneva for Early Warning Systems and Predictive Analytics worldwide.
He worked during 2020-2023 within a research network on Digital Governance, Policy, Collective Intelligence and Finance specialized in Future of Governance and Sustainable Development with UCL (UK) in collaboration with KTH and MIT.
Now he works on Innovation and Scientific Research at UPM since late 2023.
He is also an expert in biomedical technologies having worked with the University of California San Diego, the Centre National Recherche Scientifique, the IS Carlos III and the Cardiovascular National Research Institute. He was Ph.D. researcher at BIT-UPM and post-doc researcher at CNRS - BioEmergences. He was associate researcher of the University California San Diego. He integrates computational models, Machine Learning and physics to understand dynamics processes in biomedical science with applications to embryogenesis and improved diagnosis. He is currently an associate researcher of the University of Washington Seattle. He is also a fellow of the Catalyst 2020 program of EIT Health and MIT LinQ. He has been awarded as the best project of Catalyst by EIT Health for Surgescope (www.surgescope.org) and he collaborates on digital innovation with Hospital Clinico San Carlos.
He also entered the SCIFI programme "from researchers to innovators" from the EIT Health in 2022, becoming an expert in innovation and the European biomedical industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-pastor-escuredo-59543320/
Experience
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2023–presentLead Scientist and Innovator, UPM
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2017–presentCEO, LifeD Lab
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2019–2023Senior research associate, University of Washington
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2022–2023Lead Scientist, UNHCR
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2020–2023Lead Scientist , UCL
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2019–2022Associate research scientist, MIT
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2020–2021Lead Scientist, UNICEF
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2016–2021Lead Scientist, UPM
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2015–2019Postdoctoral research associate, UCSD
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2018–2019Scientific Advisor, UNGP
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2016–2017Postdoctoral research fellow, CNRS
Education
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2022EIT Health, SCIFI fellow
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2020EIT Health, Catalyst fellow
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2015Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Doctor Internacional
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2011UPM, Master and Telecom Engineer
Grants and Contracts
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2011Beca UPM
- Role:
- Researcher
- Funding Source:
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Professional Memberships
- EIT Health - MIT LinQ
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing (0801)
- Computer Vision (080104)
- Mathematical Sciences (01)
- Mathematical Physics (0105)
- Biochemistry And Cell Biology (0601)
- Numerical And Computational Mathematics (0103)
- Corporate Governance And Stakeholder Engagement (150303)
- Computer Human Interaction (080602)
- Human Information Behaviour (080703)
- Madrid, Spain
- Website
- @dpastoresc
- Article Feed
- david@lifedlab.org
- ORCID
- Joined
