Equip ISGlobal

Dídac Macià is a postdoctoral researcher with a decade-long experience in Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning. He has contributed to numerous studies on neuroanatomy, cognitive neuroscience, MRI image processing, environmental sciences, statistical modelling, psychology and others. He is also an associate professor teaching Machine Learning applied to biomedical imaging to engineers and biophysicists. 

Línies de recerca

• Statistical Modelling 
• Biomedical Image Analysis (radiological and microscopy) 
• Machine Learning 

Publicacions principals

• Macià D, Campo JJ, Jairoce C, Mpina M, et al. The effect of Plasmodium falciparum exposure and maternal anti-circumsporozoite protein antibodies on responses to RTS,S/AS01E vaccination in infants and children: an ancillary observational immunological study to a phase 3, randomised clinical trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2024 Oct 23:S1473-3099(24)00527-9. 
• Mitchell RA, Macià D, Jairoce C, et al. Effect of RTS,S/AS01E vaccine booster dose on cellular immune responses in African infants and children. NPJ Vaccines. 2024 Oct 25;9(1):200. 
• Macià D, Campo JJ, Moncunill G, et al. Strong off-target antibody reactivity to malarial antigens induced by RTS,S/AS01E vaccination is associated with protection. JCI Insight. 2022 May 23;7(10):e158030.
• Sørensen Ø, Brandmaier AM, Macià D, et al. Meta-analysis of generalized additive models in neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage. 2021;224.
• Macià D, Pujol J, Blanco-Hinojo L, Martínez-Vilavella G, Martín-Santos R, Deus J. Characterization of the spatial structure of local functional connectivity using multidistance average correlation measures. Brain Connect. 2018;8(5):276-287