Awards & Recognition

Academic distinctions, research metrics, and invited plenary lectures.

43

h-index (Scopus)

5,500+

Citations (Scopus)

140+

Peer-reviewed publications

Prestigious Awards & Honours

2025 – 2029

ICREA Academia Award

Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)

Awarded to professors with outstanding research tracks in Catalan public universities to boost and support their excellence in international scientific research.

2019 – 2023

Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence

Guarantor of the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence Programme awarded to CIMNE by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Contributed to the scientific leadership and strategic development of one of Spain's leading Centres of Excellence.

2022 – 2023

Chinese Overseas Talents Fellowship

Awarded the Overseas Talents Fellowship by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China through the Excellent Scientists Fund 2022.

Supporting international scientific cooperation and research excellence with Chinese universities and research centers.

2014 – 2016

High-end Experts Recruitment Program

Awarded the prestigious High-end Experts Recruitment Fellowship by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China.

Recognizing internationally distinguished researchers invited to strengthen scientific collaboration and innovation in China.

Keynote & Plenary Lectures

2023 Plenary Lecture

"Qualification of DED metal Additive Manufacturing by numerical simulation and AI-based monitoring"

The Fourth International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing (Sim-AM 2023), Munich, Germany.

2023 Plenary Lecture

"Qualification in Additive Manufacturing"

The Frontiers of High-End Additive Manufacturing 2023, Beijing, China.

2021 Plenary Lecture

"Developments in Additive Manufacturing Processes: Industrial Technologies and Numerical Analyses"

IX International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering (COUPLED 2021), Sardinia, Italy.

2021 Plenary Lecture

"Challenges and Scope in the Numerical Simulation of Additive Manufacturing Processes "

1º Casablanca International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (CASICAM 2021), Casablanca, Morocco.

2019 Plenary Lecture

"Numerical framework for high-accuracy simulation of the FSW process"

6ª International Conference on Scientific and Technical Advances on Friction Stir Welding & Processing (FSWP 2019), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

2018 Plenary Lecture

"Numerical Modeling and Experimental Validation of AM Processes by Metal Deposition"

Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks 2018 (AM-Bench 2018), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

2017 Plenary Lecture

"Numerical modeling of the AM process by Metal Deposition and its Experimental Validation"

First International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing (Sim-AM 2017), Munich, Germany.

2013 Plenary Lecture

"A Novel Stress-Accurate FE Technology for Highly Non-Linear Analysis with Incompressibility Constraint. Application to the Numerical Simulation of the FSW Process"

11º International Conference on Numerical Methods in Industrial Forming Processes (NUMIFORM 2013), Shenyang, China.

2013 Plenary Lecture

"Una panorámica sobre las posibilidades actuales de los métodos numéricos para la simulación de procesos industriales de conformado de metales"

11º Congreso Iberoamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos (CAIP 2013), Lima, Peru.

2009 Plenary Lecture

"Coupled thermo-mechanical analysis for the numerical simulation of welding processes"

III International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering (COUPLED 2009), Ischia , Italy.

2003 Plenary Lecture

"Avances en Ingeniería Computacional: Simulación Numérica de Procesos Industriales"

3º Congreso Bolivariano de Ingeniería Mecánica (COBIM III), Lima , Peru.