About
Assistant Professor at UPC (2023/09-now)
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at UPC (2016-2021)
Visiting scholar at Georgia Tech (2019)
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering at UPC (2014-2016)
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at UPC (2010-2014)
Former positions
Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Researcher at Georgia Tech and UPC (2022/07-2023/08)
Severo Ochoa Postdoctoral Researcher at CIMNE (2021/03-2022/06)
Part-time Associate Professor at UPC (2021-2022)
Intern as Numerical Engineer at CIMNE (2015-2016)
Awards and Merits
ECCOMAS PhD Olympiad 2022 award to the best PhD thesis oral presentation in Europe on Computational Mechanics (2022)
SEMNI award to the best 2021 PhD thesis in numerical methods in engineering in Spain (2022)
Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellowship for the international training of young researchers (2021)
Excellent cum laude and international mention. PhD defense: Mathematical and computational modeling of flexoelectricity at mesoscopic and atomistic scales (2021)
ACM scholarship for assisting to the WCCM-PANACM 2018 congress in New York City (2018)
Research interests
Modeling: Nanoscale electromechanics, flexoelectricity
Computational methods: FE, VMS, B-Spline discretization, unfitted methods
Ab-initio methods: DFT, objective structures, Berry phase
Other: Homogenization, optimization, machine learning
Languages
English (C1)
French (basics)
Catalan (native)
Spanish (native)
Programming skills
★★★★ Matlab
★★☆☆ C
★★☆☆ Julia
★★☆☆ Python
Hobbies
Sports: Soccer, Workout, Paddle, Hiking, Running
Culture: Popular Catalan culture: Farrofoc, Diables del Clot
Arts: Coding, Music
Games: Chess, PES, League of Legends, Board games