CV
General information
| Name | Edith Natalia Villegas Garcia |
| Url | https://edithvillegas.github.io/ |
Work
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2026.02 - 2026.12 Trieste, Italy
Postdoctoral Researcher
International Center for Theoretical Physics - UNESCO
Researcher in the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics section.
- Intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Physical-Chemistry.
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2024.10 - 2024.12 Trieste, Italy
Teaching Assistant
University of Trieste
Teaching Assistant for the Machine Learning Operations course in the Master of Data Science.
- Lecturing, preparing exercises
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2021.07 - 2025.12 Trieste, Italy
Researcher
AREA Science Park
Researcher in the Laboratory of Data Engineering.
- Protein Language Models
- Clinical Risk Stratification
- Data Management
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2020.01 - 2021.01 Padova, Italy
Medical Physics Intern
Veneto Institute of Oncology
Intern in Radiotherapy at the Physics Department.
- Radiotherapy
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2017.07 - 2017.08 Geneva, Switzerland
Summer Intern
CERN
Intern in Open Data Group for the CMS Experiment.
- Teaching Assistant for the High School Teachers Program
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2015.03 - 2021.07 Managua, Nicaragua
Lab Specialist
National Autonomous University of Nicaragua
Radiation Physics and Metrology Laboratory
- Quality Control of Medical Imaging Equipment
- Personal Dose Monitoring
- Radiation Protection
- Gamma Spectroscopy
- Detector Calibration
Education
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2022.11 - 2026.01 Trieste, Italy
PhD in Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
University of Trieste
Protein Language Models: Interpretability and Applications
- Unsupervised Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- Bioinformatics
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2019.01 - 2021.01 Trieste, Italy
Master of Advanced Studies in Medical Physics
University of Trieste & International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Dosimetric Study of Fetal Dose during External Beam Radiotherapy using OSLD
- Radiotherapy
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Nuclear Medicine
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2018.10 - 2018.12 Besançon, France
Computational Physics, Master Courses
University of Franche-Comte
- Quantum Physics
- Statistical Physics
- Materials Physics
- Numerical Tools
- Signal Processing & Statistics
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2012.03 - 2017.06 Managua, Nicaragua
Bachelor in Physics with Concentration on Medical Physics
National Autonomous University of Nicaragua
Estimation of Personal Dose in Mixed Neutron-Gamma Radiation Fields
- Quantum Mechanics
- Radiation Physics
- Radiobiology
Volunteering
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2025.11 - 2025.12 Trieste, Italy
Event Organizer
ICTP - Physics without frontiers
Organize Schools to strengthten science in the developing world.
- Co-organizer of the First Guatemalan School of Biophysics - 2025
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| Bash | |
| R |
| Machine Learning & AI | |
| Unsupervised Learning | |
| Language Models | |
| Neural Networks | |
| Risk stratification |
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Spanish | |
| Native Speaker |
| French | |
| Fluent |
| Italian | |
| Fluent |