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.