Reserch projects

Mission Management System (MMS) (1 Sept 2025 – 1 Sept 2026). Industrial research and innovation project carried out with Singular Aircraft, focused on the development of a mission management system for UAV operations. Funding: €120,000. (PI)

TopSat (2025 – 31 July 2026). ESA OSIP project titled Ultralightweight CubeSat chassis enabled by anisotropic topology optimization of composite materials, aimed at developing lightweight space structures through anisotropic topology optimization of composites. Partner: INEGI (Portugal). Funding: €175,000. (PI)

Flexion (31 Dec 2024 – 30 Dec 2027). Project titled Design of FLEXible materials and structures via shape and topology optimizatION, funded by MCIU within the Programa de Transferencia y Colaboración. The project develops new methods for the design of flexible materials and structures through shape and topology optimization. Collaboration with Antoine Laurain (University of Duisburg–Essen). Funding on the Spanish side: €85,000. (PI)

TOMAT (1 Sept 2024 – 31 Aug 2027). Project titled Topology optimization with composite and flexible materials, funded by MCIU within the Programa Estatal para Impulsar la Investigación Científico-Técnica y su Transferencia. It focuses on the development of topology optimization methods for composite and flexible materials with applications in advanced structural design. Funding: €120,000. (PI)

Energy optimization of OPEN ARMS UNO: a dual social commitment (Sept 2023 – current). Research and technology transfer project funded through a UPC innovation prize/call focused on reducing the fuel consumption of the humanitarian vessel Open Arms Uno through advanced modelling and data-driven methodologies. The project combines technological innovation with social impact. Funding: €6,000. (Researcher)

Shape optimization considering bifurcations (2022 – 2023). Project funded by UPC / Ministerio de Universidades through a Beca de formación para el profesorado. The project addressed shape optimization problems in the presence of bifurcation and structural instability phenomena. International partner: University of Oxford. Funding: €120,000. (PI)

FIBREGY (2021 – 2024). European project focused on the development of fibre-reinforced polymer structural solutions for offshore renewable energy platforms, aiming to improve structural efficiency, durability and sustainability of offshore structures. Total project funding: €8.06M. (Researcher)

FIBRE4YARDS (2021 – 2023). European project on automated and modular composite manufacturing for shipyards (Shipyard 4.0), addressing digitalization, automation and advanced composite production technologies for the shipbuilding sector. Total project funding: €7.57M. (Researcher)

SOFCAST (2019 – 2022). Spanish national research project titled Stochastic Optimization Framework for Aircraft Structural Design, focused on uncertainty-aware structural optimization methods for aeronautical structures. Funding: €95,590. (Researcher)

ROM (2019 – 2022). Spanish national research project on reduced-order modelling for multiscale mechanical behaviour and structural failure analysis of materials. Approximate funding: about €200,000. (Researcher)

MADAM (2019 – 2021). Project titled Material Design for Additive Manufacturing, funded through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. The project focused on the development of optimization-based methodologies for material and topology design in additive manufacturing. Funding: €180,000. (PI)

SOFIA (2018 – 2021). Large French industrial research consortium in metal additive manufacturing involving major industrial partners such as Safran and Michelin, focused on design methodologies and optimization strategies for metal additive manufacturing. Total project funding: about €50M. (Researcher)

SHAPO (2018 – 2020). French ANR project on advanced mathematical and computational methods in shape optimization and PDE-constrained design. Funding: €310,834. (Researcher)

MAD4AM (2018 – 2019). Project titled Materials for Additive Manufacturing, funded through the Marie Curie COFUND TecnioSpring programme. The project focused on optimization-based methodologies for the design of materials and structures manufactured by additive manufacturing. Funding: €114,000. (PI)

ExaQUte (2017 – 2021). European Horizon 2020 FET project titled Exascale Quantification of Uncertainties for Technology and Science Simulation, addressing uncertainty quantification and optimization for large-scale scientific and engineering simulations at exascale computing levels. Total project funding: €3,124,255. (Researcher)

COMP-DES-MAT (2014 – 2018). ERC Advanced Grant titled Computational Design of Engineering Materials, devoted to the multiscale computational design of structural materials using topology optimization and advanced computational mechanics. This project formed the main research framework during the PhD period. Total project funding: €2,500,000. (Researcher)

ROM (2012 – 2014). Spanish national research project on reduced-order modelling techniques for multiscale mechanical behaviour and structural failure of materials. Funding: €210,000. (Researcher)