Academic and Scientific Positions
| 1979- | Associated Professor in Structural and Continuum Mechanics at Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC) |
| 1981- | Full Professor in Structural Mechanics, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| 1983-89 | Director of School of Civil Engineering, UPC |
| 1987- 2022 |
Founder, Executive Vicepresident, and Director of International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) |
| 1989-2004 | President of the Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) |
| 1992-95 | President of the Scientif Council of the Center for Supercomputing of Catalonia (CESCA) |
| 1992-95 | Director of Structural Mechanics Department at UPC |
| 1993-96 | Vice-president of European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) |
| 1994-2002 | General Secretary of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) |
| 1998 | Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors. Barcelona |
| 2000-2004 | President of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) |
| 2002-2010 | President of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) |
| 2004- | Honorary President of Spanish Association for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) |
| 2005 | Honorary Member of Portuguese Assoc. for Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics (APMTAC) |
| 2006 | Foreign Member of the Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Istituto Lombardo, Milan (Italy) |