Vitae

Professional Experience

Current position

I am an Independent Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina) in the area of Engineering, which is a permanent position. The CONICET's Career comprises five categories while I am at the third category (senior level). Additionally, I am tenure Professor of Solid Mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program (5 years) of the School of Industry-Applied Sciences at the National University of Cuyo, San Rafael, Mendoza province.

My core areas of research involve modelling and simulation of different problems in applied sciences and engineering, which require handling fourth-order PDEs and advanced discretization methods, e.g. high-order phase-field modelling of fracture mechanics in solids, thin-shells, and flexoelectric metamaterials. Additionally, I work on statistical/manifold learning techniques for analysis of morphometric and biomechanical descriptors of cerebral aneurysms.

Finally, our team is involved in numerical strategies and code development for high performance scientific computing; data-driven collective variables in biomolecules; development of new cell-based max-entropy approximants; biomechanics and mechanobiology of soft biological tissues; ultrasonic analysis for additive manufacturing evaluation and classification; and machine learning for medical planning of intracranial aneurysms.

Consult my updated scientific information at the CONICET official website.

Professor

• Mechanical Engineering, 3rd, Solid Mechanics 120h/semester.

• Engineering, 2nd or higher, Introduction to Octave 30h/semester [elective E188].

• Engineering, 3rd or higher, Introduction to Unix 30h/semester [elective E182].

• Posgraduate: Advanced Mathematics for Engineering, FCAI-UNCuyo, 80h, 2017.

Assistant Professor

Between July 2015 and July 2016 I worked as Assistant Professor in the School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Postdoctoral Associate

During 2013-2015 I was working as postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Computational Methods and Numerical Analysis (LaCàN, Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. The focus of the performed research was in the mathematical modeling, mechanics and computations of brittle materials like thin sheets and flexoelectric devices, and in the hydrodynamic simulation of bilipid membranes. As part of these objectives we were involved in the development of a parallel computing framework able to deal with fourth-order PDEs in shared memory.

Postdoctoral Associate PCI-DA

During 2012-2013 I was working as postdoctoral researcher at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) in Brazil. The sponsor of my contract was the National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) of Brazil, through a PCI (Programa de Capacitação Institucional) fellowship.

• GCurso de Posgrado GB-500: Métodos sem malha aplicados à resolução de EDPs. National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil, 2013.

Research assistant

During 2010-2012 I was researcher assistant in the Laboratory of Computational Methods and Numerical Analysis (LaCàN, Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

The sponsor of my contract was the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant entitled “PREDMODSIM: Predictive models and simulations for nano- and biomolecular mechanics: a multiscale approach” (10/2009-9/2014, grant Nr 240487, PI: Marino Arroyo). The general theme of the project concerned the formulation of mathematical models and simulation algorithms that allow us to understand quantitatively complex phenomena in small-scale mechanics, which are out of reach for brute force molecular simulation.

In particular I was engaged in the automatic identification of data-driven collective variables for enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations, among others, the aim of the research was related with the development of algorithms to accelerate the free energy computation of proteins.

Teaching assistant

• Numerical Methods in Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2008-2010)

Professor of practice

• Statistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (60h, 2005-2006)

• Introduction to Programming using Java, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (20h, 2005)

• Foundations of Physics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (20h, 2004)

Co-direction of end of course projects

• Francesco Camussoni. "Machine learning and statistical analysis for the risk assessment of rupture and biomechanical behaviour of intracranial aneurysms", Balseiro Institute at the National University of Cuyo, San Carlos de Bariloche (CAB/CNEA), Argentine, 2021.

Directors: Luis G. Moyano, Daniel Millán

• Daniel Gallardo Ortin. "3D Characterization of Brain Aneurysms by Means of Moment Analysis", PFC/CD 0870, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 2006.

Directors: Daniel Millán, William Terrence Hewitt and Alejandro Frangi Caregnato.

Speaker: Santiago Cruz Llanas.

Nuclear Engineer

• INVAP SE, Company specialized in Nuclear and Space Areas. Design of "Training Sessions for Operation Staff" for the Open Pool Australian Light-water Research Reactor (OPAL - ANSTO), it was carried out in the Integrated Logistic Support Department, Bariloche, Argentine (2003-2004).

Education

• PhD, Program in Applied Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (2006 – 2012). Supervisor: Marino Arroyo

• DEA, Master of Advanced Studies in Applied Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (2008)

• DEA, Master of Advanced Studies in Computer Science and Digital Communications, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (2006)

• Nuclear Engineer, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (2003).

Fellowships and awards

• Special doctoral award from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for the 2012-2013 academic year. Research area: Sciences. [Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadí­stica]

• SEMNI (Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering) award for the best PhD thesis in 2012 on Numerical Methods in Engineering.

• Fellowship, European Research Council, 2010-2012.

• Fellowship, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2004-2006.

• Fellowship, national contest from Argentina’s Atomic Energy Commission, 1999-2003.