Numerary Member
Technological Sciences: PhD in Civil Engineering (Roads, Canals and Ports)
Date of admission: January 11, 1988
Medal: No. 84
Admission speech: “The Aura of Numbers”
Reply speech: Dr. David Jou Mirabent, PhD in Physics
Dr. EUGENIO OÑATE IBÁÑEZ DE NAVARRA
- Born in Valencia, March 28, 1953. Married, three children.
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- Civil Engineer (Roads, Canals and Ports) from the Universitat Politècnica de València (1975).
- Master of Science, University College of Swansea (United Kingdom, 1976).
- Doctor of Philosophy, University College of Swansea (United Kingdom, 1978).
- Doctor Engineer in Civil Engineering (Roads, Canals and Ports) (1979).
ACADEMIC AND TEACHING ACTIVITY
- His research focuses on the finite element and particle methods (PFEM) applied to fluid–structure interaction, stabilized numerical methods (FIC) for fluid and solid mechanics, mesh-free techniques in solids and fluids, as well as the analysis of composite materials and aeroelastic structures.
- Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) (1979).
- Full Professor of Structural Mechanics at the UPC (1981).
- Director of the School of Civil Engineering, UPC (1983–1989).
- Director of the Department of Strength of Materials and Structures, UPC (1992–1995).
- Executive Vice-President of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) (1987–).
- President of the Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) (1989–2004), Honorary President since 2004.
- Director of the Master in Numerical Methods in Engineering (UPC).
- Lecturer in over 350 international courses and seminars.
- Supervisor of 46 doctoral theses and 95 undergraduate theses.
- Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED) since 1998.
- Foreign Member of the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Istituto Lombardo (Milan, Italy, 2006).
- Organizer of 47 international conferences.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Participant in over 500 R&D projects with companies worldwide.
- Founder and promoter of 12 technology-based companies in Spain.
- Secretary General (1994–2004) and President (2002–2010) of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
- President of ECCOMAS (2000–2004).
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of more than 300 JCR-indexed articles (h-index: 37, over 5,200 citations).
- 4 authored books, 46 monographs and 53 edited volumes.
- Over 1,100 scientific publications.
- Member of the editorial board of 26 international journals.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- “Narcís Monturiol” Medal for Scientific and Technological Merit, Generalitat de Catalunya (1990).
- Eric Reissner Medal in Computational Mechanics (1996).
- Computational Mechanics Award of the IACM (1998).
- Grand Prize of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (2009).
- Gauss–Newton Medal of the IACM (2010).
- Dr. Luis Federico Leloir Award for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina (2013).
- He has received Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships from the University Ovidius of Constanța (Romania, 2000), INSA-Lyon (France, 2012), Universidad “Martha Abreu” de Las Villas (Cuba, 2013), and as Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Swansea (2007).