Scipedia: Miguel Angel Celigueta's colleagues

Alex Barbat

Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:29:19 +0200

Civil Engineer (1970) and Doctor in Engineering (1978) by the Technical University of Iasi, Romania; Ingeniero de Caminos Canales y Puertos (1986) and Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos Canales y Puertos (1989) by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain. Professor of Structural Mechanics and of Earthquake Engineering at the UPC. Professor Emeritus since 2017. Senior researcher at the International Centre of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE: www.cimne.com) Barcelona, Spain. Supervisor of 38 doctoral theses. Current research interests: seismic analysis and design of structures; evaluation of the seismic damage of structures; seismic vulnerability and risk evaluation; and active and passive control of structures. Publications: 8 books, 127 articles in journals indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge or SCOPUS and 75 peer reviewed articles in other national and international journals. Collaboration in 15 projects in the framework of RTD programs of the European Commission, 11 of them as main researcher; in 22 projects funded by Spanish Ministries, 14 of them as main researcher. 25 consultancy contracts with Spanish and international companies or institutions like the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank or the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR. Co-editor of Revista Internacional de Ingeniería de Estructuras, Quito, Ecuador and of Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura Civil, Puerto Rico. Editor of the Monograph Series in Earthquake Engineering, CIMNE, http://www.cimne.com/tiendacimne/monotema.asp?id_tema=10 President of the Spanish Association of Earthquake Engineering, AEIS; head of the Risk Assessment Group, http://rag.cimne.com/, CIMNE Doctor Honoris Causa by the by the “Ovidius” University, Constantza, Romania, by the Technical University “Gh. Asachi” of Iasi, Romania and by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Angel Priegue

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:44:24 +0100

Computer Science Engineer by the Technical University of Catalonia. Advanced Studies Diploma at the Technical University of Catalonia. Nowadays finishing a Ph.D. at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) in the Technical University of Catalonia. Since 2005, technical manager of the R&D department in Information Technology at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). His main research line is integration of simulation and computational predictive models with smart wireless sensor networks. Furthermore, he is in charge of the Web technologies development team in the ICT CIMNE department, with a wide experience in design and implementation of Web platforms for digital content management, online e-learning centers, web portals for civil engineering enterprises and online e-payment, e-commerce and e-business information technologies. Since 2001, he has participated in organization of more than 60 international conferences and congresses as technical manager and webmaster.

Barbara Llacay

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:18:11 +0100

Bàrbara Llacay holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona, and a degree in mathematics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She is Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Barcelona and is doing research on agent-based simulation of financial markets. She has managed several EC funded projects in ICT at CIMNE.

Borja Servan Camas

Wed, 25 May 2016 12:39:49 +0200

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Cecilia Soriano

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:44:26 +0100

I graduated with a BsC in Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB), and have a PhD degree in Physics from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC). My research interests are Meteorology and Air Polution Modeling.

I have held a Tenure-track position at UPC (Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Dept. of Physics and Nuclear Engineering), to move later to the private sector, first as Head of Atmospheric Projects at TYPSA-TECNOMA, and as a Freelance consultant in Environmental Engineering projects (www.ceciliasoriano.com).

Since 2012 I am Staff Scientist at CIMNE, where I carry out duties related to Research Management and Competitive Fundraising. Reporting directly to the Director and the General manager, my tasks at CIMNE have to do with providing pre-award assistance to researchers to apply for available competitive grants (at the national, EC or international funding level). I identify funding opportunities, help determine eligibility for grants and awards, and collaborate with them in the development of the proposals needed to compete for them. I also oversee budget development, and help prepare any documentation required by a proposal. Additionally, I participate in the negotiation stage (in EC grants) towards signature of the grant agreement, and occasionally I am involved in project management regarding coordination of the consortium and follow up of the project side-by-side with the Principal Investigator.

I am also the coordinator of the UPC UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in Engineering.

Eduardo Soudah

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:43:41 +0200

Currently I am head of Biomedical Department at CIMNE and CIMNE CARDIO-LAB. My main research area is linking computational medical image and finite elements methods to create virtual medical models.

My major challenge is to integrate my knowledge gained on computational medical image and computational methods into robust and fully reliable computer models and "in silico" environments that will help the development and testing of new therapies and better disease prediction and prevention tools, in healthcare.

I am working in the area of Virtual Physiological Human(VPH) looking for new opportunities in the biomedical Sector. I have great experience in national, international R&D projects (H2020, FP7, ITEA, ARTEMIS....) and within private companies.

Enrique Escolano

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:43:04 +0200

Degree in Civil Engineering by the ETSECCPB (UPC), specialized in structures. Diplomated in Civil Engineering and in Hydrology, for the EUITOP Barcelona (UPC).

He has worked as a researcher in the Department of Strength of Materials and Structures of UPC, and is currently working as researcher at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE).

Member of the Flumen Institute, devoted to the research on fluvial dynamics and hydrological engineering.

He is member of the development team of GiD(www.gidhome.com), a generic graphical environment for pre/post-processing, devoted to numerical simulations. GiD has received the award "City of Barcelona 2002", and also has been awarded by the European Information Society Technologies Prize Organization as one of the 2002 European IST Prize Winners.

Mr. Escolano has taken part in numerous national and international projects, being the more usual tasks is geometric modeling, mesh generation and displaying graphical results.

Eugenio Oñate

Wed, 25 May 2016 13:40:40 +0200

After completing a degree in Civil Engineering in July 1975 at the Technical Univ. of Valencia (Spain), he started postgraduate studies at the Civil Engineering Dept. of Swansea University, Wales, UK. There he completed in June 1976 a Master of Science degree (M.Sc. Thesis on Development of a finite strip method for analysis of bridges and folded plate structures) and later a Ph.D. degree (Dec. 1978) under the supervision of Prof. O. C. Zienkiewicz (Ph. D. Thesis on Plastic flow in metals with special reference to: I) Coupled thermal flow. II) Thin sheet metal forming). His Ph.D. studies were funded by an Alcoa Research Grant from USA.

In February 1979 he moved to the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain, where he was hired as an Associated Professor on Structural Mechanics at the School of Civil Engineering. He became a Full Professor with tenure on June 1983. From March 1983 to March 1989 he was the Director of the School of Civil Engineering at UPC.

On March 1987 he founded CIMNE (International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, www.cimne.com), a research center specialized in the development and application of numerical methods in engineering. From March 1987 to June 2022 he was the Executive Vice-President and Director of CIMNE.

Has supervised 49 Ph.D. Thesis and 95 Master Thesis . 30 of his former students are now full professors in Universities in Spain (13), USA (4), UK (2) and Latin America (11). He has had a significant impact in the creation of new scientific groups in cooperation with his former students.

In 1989 he was the founder and first President of the Spanish Association for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI, www.cimne.upc.es/semni).

He was one of the founders and first Vice-President (1993-95) of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS, www.eccomas.org)

His research activities have spread over a range of multidisciplinary fields which he has contributed relevant theories and methods of scientific and industrial relevance.

The above research lines have been developed in the framework of over 400 RTD projects carried out in cooperation with the main engineering companies in Spain and worldwide. Some 120 of these projects have been developed in the framework of EC programmes.

In parallel with the RTD activities, Eugenio Oñate has organized as chair person 45 international congresses on topics closely related with the above RTD lines. See list of congresses in www.cimne.com .

He has published 302 papers in scientific journals. He has written 4 text books and is the editor of 52 books in different topics of Computational Engineering Mechanics. He is the editor of three scientific journals (one of which is published by Springer) and 3 books series in Computational Mechanics. He is the author of 62 chapters in books, 40 monographs, 435 papers in conference proceedings and 230 research reports .

He has 4770 citations in the field of Computational Engineering Science. He has an h index of 42 and 19 papers with more than 50 citations.

He is regularly invited to deliver Keynote (Plenary) Lectures in the main International Conferences in Computational Engineering Science (25 Plenary Lectures and 30 Keynote lectures in the last 20 years).

His research work has been recognized in many Prizes and Awards.

Fernando Salazar

Fri, 27 May 2016 09:34:32 +0200

Fernando Salazar received the Degree on Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2002, specializing in Hydraulics. He has worked in several dam and hydraulic projects, as well as in the development of emergency plans and hazard-potential classification of dams (being Mequinenza and Riba-Roja, in the Ebro river, among them). He is working for CIMNE since 2009, where he is the current Project Development Director.

He obtained his PhD at the UPC in 2017, qualified as Excellent Cum Laude. It focused on the application of machine learning techniques to dam monitoring data analysis. In this field, he was winner of an International Challenge organized by Verbund, the greatest hydropower company in Austria.

He has been involved in several research projects in the fields of hydraulics, dam engineering and dam safety. He is author or co-author of 15 papers in scientific journals, and around 50 contributions in conference proceedings.

Francisco Zarate

Wed, 03 May 2017 14:14:40 +0200

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Ignasi de-Pouplana

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:09:45 +0100

Ignasi de Pouplana Sardà is a Civil Engineer by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) since 2014. He is also a Master in Structural & Construction Engineering and a Ph.D. in Structural Analysis by the same university since 2015 and 2018, respectively.
His research career started in 2012 at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) when, in the context of the Civil Engineering bachelor thesis, he worked on the implementation and validation of a new code of the Discrete Element Method (DEM). In 2014 he started working on continuum damage mechanics in the field of the Finite Element Method (FEM), and developed a new approach for the failure analysis of quasi-brittle materials by combining non-local damage models with adaptive mesh refinement techniques.
He developed the Ph.D. with the research focused on fluid-structure interaction in porous and fractured media. Topics of major interest included: stable analysis of the fluid flux in porous media, fracture of the solid matrix driven by the fluid pressure, and adaptivity of the mesh to propagate fractures in the porous domain by using non-local damage models along with quasi-zero-thickness interface elements.
In the last years he has participated at CIMNE in various research projects and contracts with industry applied to different engineering problems, e.g. monitoring of stresses during the construction process of concrete arch dams, optimization of drill bit geometries for Particle Impact Drilling (PID) technology, prediction of the final stress state of metallic pieces during casting processes, quantification of sand production in well completions, and prediction of NO2 concentration in urban areas, to name a few. Such an experience has been accompanied by the publication of more than 10 JCR articles and the supervision of 2 PhD theses.
Ignasi is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Strength of Materials and Structural Engineering (RMEE) in UPC, participating in several courses related to structural analysis and strength of materials in the Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEBE).
His research is now focused on the extension of the interface elements formulation for different contact applications, and the generalization of the poromechanics solver presented in his PhD thesis for multiphase flows. The main objective behind such a work will be the development of a new software for the simulation of CO2 storage process.

International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Tue, 10 May 2016 11:44:46 +0200

The International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) is a research organization created in 1987 at the heart of the prestigious Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) as a partnership between the Government of Catalonia and UPC, in cooperation with UNESCO. The aim of CIMNE is the development of numerical methods and computational techniques for advancing knowledge and technology in engineering and applied sciences.

CIMNE’s headquarters are located at the heart of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. CIMNE has also premises at different buildings in several campus of the UPC. CIMNE has also offices in Spain (Madrid, Terrassa and Ibiza). In 2005 CIMNE started its international expansion and since then has created the following international branches: CIMNE Latinoamerica (Non-profit Foundation in Santa Fe, Argentina); CIMNE USA (Non-profit Corporation in Washington DC, USA); CIMNE Singapore (Non-profit Corporation in Singapore) and CIMNE Beijing (China).

CIMNE employs some 250 scientists and engineers who work in the different offices of CIMNE around the world. CIMNE has also established a network of 30 Classrooms in partnership with Universities in Spain and 11 Latin American countries.

The research and technology development (RTD) activities of CIMNE cover a wide spectrum of topics ranging from classical engineering fields such as civil, mechanic, environmental, naval, marine and offshore, food, telecommunication and bio-medical engineering, computer sciences and applied sciences such as material sciences bio-medicine, computational physics, nature, social and economic sciences and multimedia sciences, among others.

Over its history, CIMNE has taken part in over 2,000 RTD projects in cooperation with some 500 companies, universities and research centers worldwide.

Javier Mora

Thu, 26 May 2016 21:02:22 +0200

PhD in Electronic Engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC): Magnetic Levitation Forces Phenomenology in High Critical Temperature Superconductors (1998, Cum Laude), developed at the Institute of Materials Sciencie of Barcelona (ICMAB) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Supervisor: Prof. Xavier Obradors. Telecommunication Engineer (UPC). Master's thesis: Non-Lineal Characterisation of MESFET Transistors (1992).

Project manager and researcher on electromagnetics in CIMNE (1998 - present)
Development of finite element based electromagnetic simulation tools. Participation in more than 20 European and national projects (seven of them as principal investigator). Ramón y Cajal researcher. Research lines in computational electromagnetics, magnetic sensors and superconductivity. Projects: Brite-Euram, V, VI and VII FM, QoL, IST, MIDAS, CICYT, Generalitat de Cataluña, ATYCA...) 16 international papers (J.Appl.Phys., IEEE Trans.on Appl.Sc, APL). Conferences (EUCAS, ASC, MAGLEV).

Technology transfer through CIMNE Tecnología S.A. (2012 - present)

Assistant Professor at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), 2004 – 2009. Introduction to Computers, Programming Lab, Introduction to Telecommunication Engineering, RF Laboratory
Contribution to the plan for an implementation of transversal competencies within the EEES, EPSC, 2004-2007.

Joan Baiges

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 09:24:57 +0200

Joaquín Irazábal González

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:36:07 +0200

My professional career is being developed mainly in the field of calculation of structures using numerical methods.

Since November 2011 I work in the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) in Madrid developing research projects in Civil Engineering. The projects focus on the possibilities of using particle methods for the calculation of the behaviour of granular materials, specifically, the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM).

During my years at the CIMNE I studied the Master of Numerical Methods in Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and my PhD thesis entitled "Numerical analysis of railway ballast behaviour using the Discrete Element Method", presented on October 6, 2017, also at the UPC. The thesis, awarded the XVI Talgo Prize for Technological Innovation, was focused on the application of the Discrete Elements Method to the calculation of the behaviour of railway ballast.

Jonathan Colom Cobb

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:07:31 +0100

Jonathan Colom Cobb recently finished his degree in Marine Engineernig and Naval Architecture (2015) at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). At the present time, he is a research Engineer at CIMNE and is starting his PhD.

During his degree, Jonathan already showed interest in numerical methods and computational science by first working as a scholar at CEHINAV (Canal de Ensayos Hidrodinamicos de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Navales, Madrid) and then starting an internship at CIMNE that lasted over a year. Now that he has finished his degree, he is starting his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Julio García Espinosa at CIMNE.

Jordi Pons Prats

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:16:06 +0200

Dr. Jordi Pons-Prats is a Mechanical Engineer. His activity in the last 15 years has combined a research career in the field of optimization, robust design and stochastic analysis and the work experience in project management in the industrial sector. His research is focus on the development and application of optimization methods for Robust Design.

His industrial work experience is based in his technical background and his project management skills. He spent 3 years in the software industry, 3 years in the home appliances industry and 4 years in the aeronautical sector. He did his PhD as part-time student at CIMNE from 2003 to 2011. From 2008 he is the responsible of the aeronautical group of CIMNE, and a researcher in the Optimization and Artificial Intelligence field. He has published 9 scientific papers in JCR journals. He has 3 citations and a h-index of 1 (Source: Web of Knowledge).

He is the coordinator of the Iberia East Pilot Center of ERCOFTAC (www.ercoftac.org), and the Spanish National Contact Point of EASN (www.easn.net). He also collaborates with BAIE (Barcelona Aeronautica I Espai, www.baie.cat), the Catalan association of aeronautical industry

Jose Manuel Gonzalez

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:14:52 +0100

Julio García-Espinosa

Tue, 10 May 2016 11:43:04 +0200

MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and PhD in Civil Engineering by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

Currently, I am full professor of shipbuilding technology at the Higher Technical School of Naval Architects and Offshore Engineers (ETSIN) of the Technical University of Madrid and the Deputy Director of Institutional Relations.

I conduct my research in collaboration with the Model Basin Research Group at ETSIN (CEHINAV) and the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). My research career has focused on developing computational models for fluid-structure interaction analysis and their application to the design and verification of ships, platforms, and marine structures.

I am the author of more than 35 articles published in first-tier international journals, have presented over 80 papers at international conferences, and have participated in more than 25 European or international research projects.

Additionally, I have been the promoter and co-founder of Compass IS, a company specializing in engineering design, and Scipedia, the developer of the platforms Scipedia.com and BIM TeamUp.

María Jesus Calvete

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:48:59 +0100

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María Jesús Samper - RIMNI

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:26:46 +0200

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Martha Liliana Carreño

Wed, 17 May 2017 08:42:37 +0200

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Mercè López

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:01:57 +0100

Miguel Cervera

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:46:44 +0100

Prof. Miguel Cervera is Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (UPC, 1983), Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (University of Wales, 1986), Dr. Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (UPC, 1988). He was Associate Professor of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis (1988-1999) and is Professor of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis (since 1999) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos of Barcelona (UPC). He has been Deputy Director for Infrastructures and Resources (1990-1991), Head of Studies for Civil Engineering (1991-1994), Deputy Director for Academic Coordination (1994-1996), Academic Registrar (1996-1997) and Head of Doctoral Studies (2016- ) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos of Barcelona. In 1988 he was one of the founder members of the Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) and he has been a member of the Executive Committee of SEMNI since 1996.

In 1998 Prof. Miguel Cervera was co-winner of the Honorable Mention for the Award "City of Barcelona on Technological Research". In 2012 he won the UPC Board of Trustees Award for Quality Career in University Teaching. Also in 2012, he was awarded the "Jaume Vicens Vives" Medal for Excellence in University Teaching by the Government of Catalonia. In 2016 he received the "IACM Fellows Award", bestowed by the International Association for Computational Mechanics for a distinguished record of research, accomplishment and publication in areas of Computational Mechanics.

Prof. Miguel Cervera has published 13 books in Mechanics and Strength of Materials and in Structural Mechanics, used as reference textbooks in graduate and post-graduate courses in Engineering and Architecture in universities in Spain, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala and Portugal.

Prof. Miguel Cervera has published 100 research papers in JCR scientific journals, over 180 communications in International Conferences, Congresses and Symposiums and 24 monographs and 9 book chapters in the field of non-linear computational mechanics of solids, with focus on finite element technology, non-linear constitutive modeling, and thermo-mechanical and coupled problems and numerical simulation of construction and production processes.

Prof. Miguel Cervera has participated in 70 national and international research conferences, acting in 47 of them as member of the Scientific or the Organizing Committee. He has also co-organized a number of special invited sessions and has been invited as keynote lecturer in several international conferences, including the IV World Congress on Computational Mechanics (1998). He also acts regularly as referee for 37 international scientific journals and has been co-editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Plasticity on Numerical Simulation of Forming Processes (2001). He is member of the Editorial Board of the "Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería", "Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management", “Metals” and “Frontiers in Built Environment (Computational Methods in Structural Engineering)”.

Prof. Miguel Cervera has participated in numerous financed research projects, most of them related to the application of Finite Elements Methods to the development of tools for Computer Aided Engineering, with focus on the industrial applications of thermo-mechanical processes with phase change and chemical interactions. These include different techniques for Casting, Welding, Metal Deposition and Additive Manufacturing.

Omar Salomon

Tue, 16 May 2017 08:40:56 +0200

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Oriol Lloberas-Valls

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:08:48 +0200

Oscar Fruitos Bickham

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:28:02 +0100

Engineering Master by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Since 1997 is Coordinator of R&D area in Industrial Processes at the Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). He has coordinated and worked in several research project at autonomic, national and European levels.

His innovation management experience includes the direction of metal R&D Department in COVIT company from 2003 to 2006.

He is Associate Research Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) where he teaches Strenght of Materials and Structural Analysis undergraduate courses (1995 - present).

Pavel Ryzhakov

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:01:19 +0200

Ramon Ribó

Mon, 23 May 2016 21:56:01 +0200

I am the CEO of Compass Ingenieria y Sistemas, SA a technological company that develops and comercializes software for engineering simulation.

As a Civil Engineer pHD, I am interested in technological innovation, specially from a business point of view.
My personal objective is to understand how to add value from the I+D to the enterprise and create products that can enter into competition in the international technological market.

Specialties: My field of knowledge is about developing great software for Computer Simulation in Engineering including Structural Analysis, Mesh generation, CFD, etc.

Riccardo Rossi

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:08:55 +0200

Roberto Flores

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:00:49 +0200

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Sergio Idelsohn

Fri, 27 May 2016 10:17:50 +0200

Vicente Mataix Ferrándiz

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:55:58 +0200

Xavier Oliver

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 09:30:58 +0200