Numerary Member
Technological Sciences: PhD in Civil Engineering
Date of admission: 2 February 2017
Admission speech: “Theory of Similarity and University Governance”
Reply speech: Hon. Dr. Eugenio Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, PhD in Civil Engineering.
Distinguished career: Expert in civil engineering, structural design, and project management. He has led numerous research and consulting projects on public infrastructure and is a key figure in engineering education in Spain and Latin America.
Dr. JAUME ARMENGOU ORÚS
- Born in Lleida in 1963.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- PhD in Civil Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
- In 2007 he joined the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Faculty. He has been a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the University of Navarra, the University of Piura and UIC Barcelona. He has delivered numerous lectures, participated in many international conferences, and undertaken research stays at the universities of Glasgow, Wuhan, Piura, Berkeley and the National University of Singapore / Nanyang Technological University.
- His research areas focus on project management, decision analysis, and the design and calculation of concrete structures.
- Author of numerous scientific, technical, and outreach publications.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Author of more than 200 construction projects. He has carried out numerous research projects and developed dozens of software programs. In 2003, he sold his start-up to Prefabricaciones y Contratas, S.A. (Cementos Molins Group) and became Technical Director and a member of the management committee.
- Since 2018 he has been Professor at the IESE Business School (University of Navarra), in the Department of Decision Analysis.
- Between 2018 and 2025 he served as Secretary General of IESE Business School (University of Navarra).
- He is currently Head of the Managerial Decision Sciences Department, a role he combines with teaching in the same department.
- After completing his doctoral thesis, he founded a start-up dedicated to design and structural engineering.
- He is the inventor of several patents.
