Computational Solid Mechanics
Dr Ignacio Romero obtained his Mechanical Engineering degree in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros ICAI (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid) in 1995. Funded with a Fulbright scholarship, he enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering MSc program at Stanford University. Later, he moved to the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining his PhD in 2001 in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He returned to Spain in 2001 and spent one year as visiting scholar in the Civil Engineering School of the UPM, before obtaining a “Ramón y Cajal” research grant. In 2006 he moved as Assistant Professor to the Mechanical Engineering school of the UPM, promoting to Associate and Full Professor in 2007 and 2011, respectively. Since 2017, he is the Director of the IMDEA Materials Institute.
RESEARCH INTEREST
His research deals with numerical methods for nonlinear mechanics of solids, fluids, and structures. More specifically, he has developed time integration methods for Hamiltonian and coupled problems, models and numerical methods for nonlinear beams and shells, improved finite elements for solid mechanics, error estimators in nonlinear dynamics and multiscale methods for material modeling. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, participated in dozens of conferences and has been invited to give seminars in European and American universities.
ACADEMIC CAREER
- 2017: Director, IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain.
- 2014: Deputy Director and Senior Researcher, IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain.
- 2012: Professor and Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
- 2011: Full Professor, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
- 2007: Associate Professor, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
- 2006: Assistant Professor, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
- 2009-2011: Ramón y Cajal research grant, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
- 2001: Visiting scholar, Civil Engineering School of the Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
- 2001: PhD, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
- 1996: Mechanical Engineering MSc (Fulbright scholarship), Stanford University, USA.
- 1995: Mechanical Engineering degree, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid.
AWARDS
- 2015: “Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy”
- 1996: “Fulbright scholarship, Stanford University, USA”
