Graduada em Engenharia de Produção com Habilitação em Mecânica na Universidade do Estado de Santa Catariana (UDESC), Pós Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão Estratégica pela UNINTER e MBA em Controladoria e Finanças pela Anhanguera. Finalizando Mestrado em Engenharia de Produção na Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, com data de conclusão em junho de 2022

Topics of current research interests include, shape sensing, CFRP composites, Fibre Optic Sensors (FBG, OBR), damage detection from strain measurements, smart processing of composites.

Selected achievements and honors include: Advisor of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology for the ‘Materials Science Research Program’, 2002-2004. Former President of the Spanish Composite Association, 2008-2013.

Associate Editor of two international journals related to Composites and Smart Structures. Chairman of the ‘EWSHM2016’ in July 2016, Bilbao, Spain; Co-Chairman of the Inttnal Workshops on SHM ( IWSHM, Stanford) from 1997  (biennial).

In September 2011 at Stanford (CA), during the IWSHM, Prof. Güemes received from BOEING the ‘SHM Lifetime Achievements Award’ for his contributions to this technology.

He has also been a supervisor of 11 PhD Thesis during last 15 years, and supervises around 5 MSc thesis per year. He authored over 200 peer reviewed journal papers, 2 patents and several book contributions; he is co-editor of the book: "New Trends in Structural Health Monitoring" (2013).

Obtained results include 35 publications on recognized international journals (22 on first quartile JCR journals) and 2 book chapters, being the first author in most of the publications. Four papers are highlighted with 182, 75, 40 and 36 cites on Scopus database, obtaining and h-index equal to 11. Additionally, 22 papers published in National Journals (derived from National Conferences) support the research developed. Scientific production is complemented with a large number of conference contributions (30 international and 10 national conferences) being more than 95% oral presentations. 

Financial support associated to these results includes the coordination (Principal Investigator) of the following grants: (a) US-1266016, Junta de Andalucía through Universidad de Sevilla, from 01/02/2020 to 30/04/2022, 90.000,00 €. (b) PGC2018-099197-B-I00, Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry, from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2021, 60.500,00 €. (c) AT17_5908_USE, Junta de Andalucía, Actividades de Transferencia, from 01/01/2020 to 31/07/2021, 59.500,00 €. (d) P12-TEP-1050, Junta de Andalucía, Excellence Projects, from 30/01/2014 to 29/01/2018, 116.745,00 €. Additionally, it is remarkable the participation as researcher in 5 National (Spanish) Projects and 3 Regional (Andalusian) Projects.

It is also interesting to notice the international collaboration (evidenced with journal/conference publications) with the following researchers: P. Cornetti (POLITO, Italy), L.J. Gray (ORNL, USA), C.G. Panagiotopoulos (Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece), A. Salvadori (U. Brescia, Italy), A. Sapora (POLITO, Italy), R. Vodicka (TUKE, Kosice, Slovakia).

Innovation was also a part of the activity, shown by nine contracts with different companies: ENDESA, ABENGOA, EMASESA, AIRBUS. The variety of topics and the solution of relevant problems from the technical and industry point of view can be shown. Two main results are highlighted: (a) a Spanish, European and USA patent with inventors from Universidad de Sevilla and AIRBUS and (b) introduction of Machine Learning techniques for the pipe failure assessment on water distributions systems.

Treasurer of the Spanish Structural Integrity Society (Spanish Group of Fracture) since April 2019.

Regarding the training capacity, 2 PhD thesis were co-supervised, both obtained the maximum qualification (Sobresaliente “cum laude”) in 2020 and 2021. At the moment, 3 PhD students are being supervised. Additionally, 24 final projects (including engineering bachelor and master) were directed, it is remarkable that results included in some of these projects were published in international journals and conferences. At last, a supervision of a young investigator for a two-year contract in the framework of European Youth Guarantee is running from April 2021.

Three special issues in recognized journals were edited (as invited editor): Composites Part A (2015), International Journal of Fracture (2019) and Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (2019). Usual reviewer of international journals (45 manuscripts reviewed) and reviewer of 5 projects for the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI).