Numerary Member
Technological Sciences: PhD in Civil Engineering (Roads, Canals and Ports)
Date of admission: December 19, 2006
Medal: No. 14
Admission speech: “Science in Engineering: The Legacy of the École Polytechnique”
Reply speech: Dr. Josep Pla i Carrera, PhD in Mathematics
Dr. XAVIER (JAVIER) OLIVER OLIVELLA
- Born in Valencia, 1952.
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 1982.
- MSc in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, 1976.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
- His research focuses on computational and fracture mechanics, materials and metamaterials simulation, particle methods and granular flows, contact and friction mechanics, and computational design of metamaterials.
- Among his major research projects are the ERC Advanced Grant (2013–2017): COMP-DES-MAT and the ERC Proof of Concept projects CATALOG (2018) and METACOUSTIC (2019).
- Full Professor of Continuum Mechanics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
- Researcher at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE).
- Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED) since 2006.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of more than 117 JCR articles and over 150 additional publications.
- Over 15,000 citations (Google Scholar), h-index: 51.
- Author of chapters and reference books in computational and fracture mechanics.
- Lubliner, Oliver, Oller, Oñate. A plastic-damage model for concrete. IJSS, 1989. (2,494 citations).
- Simo, Oliver, Armero. Strong discontinuities in inelastic solids. Computational Mechanics, 1993. (665 citations).
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2002).
- IACM Computational Mechanics Award (2008).
- Gauss-Newton Medal, the highest distinction of the IACM (2020).
- Teaching Innovation Award from the UPC (2018).