Peer-reviewed work

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, and thesis work.

2025

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Laser-Induced Fluorescence coupled with Machine Learning as an effective approach for real-time identification of bacteria in bioaerosols

Alejandro Fontal, Sílvia Borràs, Sofya Pozdniakova, Lidia Cañas, Xavier Rodó

  • Microbiology
  • Machine Learning
  • Laser-Induced Fluorescence
  • Aerobiology

iScience

Integrating air microbiome for comprehensive air quality analysis

Sofya Pozdniakova, Akira Uchida, Alejandro Fontal, Lidia Cañas, Samuel Santamaría, Lim Yee Hui, Irvan Luhung, Stephan C. Schuster, Xavier Rodó, Sílvia Borràs

  • Microbiology
  • Microbiome
  • Aerobiology
  • Environmental monitoring
2024

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Microbial richness and air chemistry in aerosols above the PBL confirm 2,000-km long-distance transport of potential human pathogens

Xavier Rodó, Sofya Pozdniakova, Sílvia Borràs, Atsushi Matsuki, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Maria-Pilar Armengol, Irina Pey, Laura Muñoz, Samuel Santamaría, Lidia Cañas, Josep-Anton Morguí, Alejandro Fontal, Roger Curcoll

  • Microbiology
  • Metagenomics
  • Aerobiology
  • Infectious Diseases
2023

Environmental Research Letters

Sub-weekly signatures relate ultrafine aerosols enriched in metals from intensive farming and urban pollution to Kawasaki disease

Xavier Rodó, Albert Navarro-Gallinad, Tomoko Kojima, Josep-Anton Morguí, Sílvia Borràs, Alejandro Fontal

  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Air Pollution & Health
2022

International Vasculitis and ANCA Workshop

Tracing Tokyo’s air sources to identify Kawasaki Disease’s etiological triggers

Alejandro Fontal, Sofya Pozdniakova, Sílvia Borràs, Lídia Cañas, Roger Curcoll, Josep-Anton Morguí, Atsushi Matsuki, Xavier Rodó

  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Atmospheric Processes
  • Conference
2021

Nature Computational Science

Climatic signatures in the different COVID-19 pandemic waves across both hemispheres

Alejandro Fontal, Menno J. Bouma, Adrià San José, Leonardo López, Mercedes Pascual, Xavier Rodó

  • COVID-19
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Climate & Health
  • Infectious Diseases

JAMA Network Open

COVID-19 Pandemic Sets New Clues on the Transmission Pathways in Kawasaki Disease

Xavier Rodó, Alejandro Fontal

  • COVID-19
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
2017

Wageningen University & Research Thesis Repository

Neural Networks for Subcellular Localization Prediction

Alejandro Fontal

  • Bioinformatics
  • Proteomics
  • Machine Learning