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I am a researcher at CIRCE (Research Center for Energy Resources and Consumption). I specialize in computer fluid dynamics (CFD) and simulation by the discrete element method (DEM). My current research field is combustion technologies applied to biomass combustion. I also have experience in the physics of granular matter: systems composed by discrete macroscopic constituents which interact via contact forces. We can find examples of these systems in our everyday life experience: sugar, grains, sand, rocks, toner... which can flow or pack to form amorphous solids.

Among the topics that I have studied:

• Co-firing biomass / coal

• Simulation of industrial furnaces and boilers

• Electronic equipment cooling

• HVAC

• Exhaust gas for catalytic applications

• Plastic deformation in amorphous solids

• Silo flow

• Avalanches

• Silo clogging

• Jamming

• Pile formation

• Complex Networks in granular systems