About me

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Current and past positions: June 2024 - present Full Professor at CTTC (Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center) in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). December 2018 - May 2024 Associate Professor at CTTC (Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center) in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Nov 2013 - November 2018 Ramón y Cajal Postdoctoral Researcher at CTTC (Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center) in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Granted by a Postdoctoral fellowship Ramón y Cajal by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. July 2009 - October 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher at CTTC (Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center) in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Partially granted by a Postdoctoral fellowship Juan de la Cierva by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. June 2007 - June 2009 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Granted by a Postdoctoral fellowship Beatriu de Pinós by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Jan. 2007  - May 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Education: Mar. 2001- Dec. 2006 PhD Student at CTTC (Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center) in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Thesis: ``Direct numerical simulation and regularization modelling of turbulent flows on loosely coupled parallel computers using symmetry-preserving discretizations''. Final qualification: Cum Laude. Granted by a doctoral fellowship FPU (Formación de Profesorado Universitario) by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. 1995-2000 Mechanical Engineering in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

Visits and stays in research centers:                                                                                                              February 2024 Visit to the Institute of Numerische Methoden in der Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik (NML) at Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany. (PDF presentation with movies) (PDF presentation without movies) January 2023 Visit to the Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) at Amsterdam Science Park, The Netherlands. (PDF presentation with movies) (PDF presentation without movies) May - July 2022 Stay at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. January 2022 Virtual visit to the Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing group at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. (PDF presentation with movies) (PDF presentation without movies) June 2021 Virtual visit to the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. (PDF presentation: encrypted with gpg - contact me) October 2020 Participation in the Extra Colloquium Mathematics (for the Maurits H. Silvis PhD defense) at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. (PDF presentation) April 2019 Visit to Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy. (PDF presentation with movies) (PDF presentation without movies) December 2018 Stay at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. November 2018 Visit to the Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science of the Engineering School of Mathematics and Computational Science at the Xiangtan University, China. (PDF presentation1) (PDF presentation 2) November 2018 Visit to the School of Mathematics and Computational Science at the Tsinghua University, China. (PDF presentation1) (PDF presentation 2) March - June 2017 Stay at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. June - July 2016 Participation in the CTR Summer Program 2016 at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR), Stanford University, USA. February - June 2015 Stay at the Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia March - May 2013 Stay at the Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia July - October 2012 Stay at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Dec 2011 - March 2012 Stay at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. July 2006 Stay at the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. June 2005 - July 2005 Stay at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA May 2004 - June 2004 Stay at the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.