During the 2019-2020 academic year, Cristian Barrios Espinosa, a master student in the Systems Biology research master at Maastricht University, will write his thesis in the team. Cristian has a degree in theoretical mathematics (2006-2011 from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda) and another degree in medicine (2008-2014 from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), both in Bogota, Colombia. As part of his MSc thesis, he will develop a patient-level model for atrial fibrillation patients to reduce the gap between mechanistic and statistical models.