Colloquiam: Newest members

Antoni Fita

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:57:03 +0100

Javier San Mauro

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:02:15 +0100

Javier San Mauro received the Degree on Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 2011, specializing in Hydraulics and Energy and his Degree project was related to dam construction. He has fulfilled the Master on Civil Engineering Systems from the Technical University of Madrid in 2014 . He is working for CIMNE since October 2011. Nowadays he is working on the application of numerical methods to projects in the field of dam engineering.

Eva Rimbau

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:58:06 +0100

Nestor Guerrero

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:02:15 +0100

Eleanor Andressen (UK Efficacy and Research Team )

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:30:32 +0100

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.

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.

Qihang Wu

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:29:33 +0100

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.

Mercè López

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