Alex Ferrer
Welcome to my website!
I’m an associate researcher at CIMNE and a "Serra-Hunter" associate professor at the Physics Department at Universitat Politècnica de Catatlunya in Barcelona.
I have spent one year as a sponsored researcher at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
I finished a three-year postdoc at Ecole Polytecnique in Paris funded by a Marie Curie Individual fellowship awarded in 2019.
I spend one year as a Post-doc at FEMPAR group developing HPC for Topology optimization.
I obtained my PhD in Computational Mechanics at UPC in Multi-scale topology optimization (more info here). A copy of my thesis can be found here.
I am currently teaching Flight mechanics, hypersonic aerodynamics and numerical methods for optimization and machine Learning at Universitat Politècnica de Catatlunya.
You can check my Google Scholar and Orcid for updates.
I am leading the development of Swan project, an open source code for Topology Optimization.
Curiosity is my driving force as a researcher. I believe in collaborative research rather than competitive research. So, please do not hesitate to contact me at aferrer@cimne.upc.edu
Associate researcher
International Center of Numerical Methods for Engineering (CIMNE). CAMMS group, Edifici C1, Campus Nord, C/ Gran Capitán S/N UPC, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. Email: aferrer@cimne.upc.edu
Associate professor.
Universitat Polytechnica de Catalunya (UPC). Aeronautical division, Department of Physics, Campus de Terrasa, Edificio TR1. C. Colom, 1. 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. Email: alex.ferrer@upc.edu
News section
2024-2025
13 of September of 2024. Starting our CAMMS meetings at FNB.
9 of September of 2024. Starting our weekly Swan meetings.
9 of September of 2024. Modamed Esmail is visiting our group to develop his final Master thesis related with new nonlinear filters jointly with J. Torres. Welcome!
4 September of 2024. Back to work with an amazing year to come.
2023-2024
29th of July of 2024. Starting holidays! :)
25th of July of 2024. Good news! TOMAT project (Spanish national project) has been awarded. The idea is to develop new topology optimization tools for hyperelastic and composite materials.
23th of July of 2024. Visiting David Ruiz Garcia at Universidad Castilla la Mancha (Toledo) to discuss about Topology optimization and connectivity constraints.
17-19th July of 2024. Visiting Israel Garcia at Universidad de Sevilla to discuss about coupled criteria, phase field, fracture mechanics and others. Very nice days, always happy to be back to Sevilla!
16th of July of 2024. Starting our exciting research project for Open Arms, developed at FNB (UPC) and leaded by X. Martinez.
15th of July of 2024. Arnau Pena is defending his final Master thesis. Congratulations!
15th of July of 2024. Joel Carrasco is defending his final Master thesis. Congratulations!
12th of July of 2024. Attending to Physics department annual meeting.
11th of July of 2024. Attending with all CAMMS group to the Amade days.
9th of July of 2024. Attending to the Physics department teaching days.
8th of July of 2024. Mario Fernández presents his final undergraduate project.
8th of July of 2024. Pau Cornudella presents his final undergraduate project
8th of July of 2024. Joan Vives presents his final undergraduate project
8th of July of 2024. Rosa Galán presents her final undergraduate project.
8th of July of 2024. Gerard Martí presents his final undergraduate project.
8th of July of 2024. Daniel Colas presents his final undergraduate project.
8th of July of 2024. Gerard Fortuny presents his final undergraduate project.
5th of July of 2024. R. Rubio is defending his mid-term PhD thesis.
5th of July of 2024. J. Torres is defending his mid-term PhD thesis.
1st of July of 2024. Ton Creus is starting his PhD, bonne courage!
26th of June of 2024. Ton Creus has defended his Master thesis. Congratulations!
19th of June of 2024. Meeting M. Giacommini to discuss about preconditioning and ROM jointly with R.Rubio and J.Hernandez.
12th June of 2024. Attending to COME Seminar.
3-7th June of 2024. Attending to ECCOMAS (Lisbon) to disseminate dehomogenization results developed jointly with G.Allaire, P. Geoffroy. Also presenting last developments with R. Rubio, J. Torres, G.Villalta. O. Schwahofer.
7-9th May of 2024. Attending to Newfrac conference (Porto) with F. Otero and G.Villalta to disseminate some first phase-field results.
1st May 2024. Starting to teach ENIA at ESEIAAT (UPC).
18th April of 2024. Starting teaching Hypersonic aerodynamics at ESEIAAT (UPC)
09th April of 2024. Attending to the Advanced Factories conference.
09th April of 2024. Starting this news section.