Lexa Nescolarde

Lexa Nescolarde was born in Baracoa, Cuba, in 1970. She received the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2006, under supervision of Professor Javier Rosell. Since January 2001, she has been a member of the Electronic and Biomedical Instrumentation Group (IEB) as well as the Biomedical Research Center (CREB-UPC). She is currently an Associate Professor at UPC. Since 2002, she has been participating in 22 research projects and has led three research and technology transfer contracts of special relevance and two of which are still valid. Her current research interests include use of non-invasive localized bioimpedance measurement (L-BIA) for muscle assessment in high performance athletes, body composition analysis, and data analysis.