Prices, Awards and Recognitions

Catalonian Medal for Research "Narcís Monturiol", Catalonian Government, 1989.

Medal to Professional Merit, Spanish Institution of Civil Engineers, 1995.

Eric Reissner Medal in Computational Structural Mechanics, ICCES, 1996.

Narcís Monturiol Award to the Scientific Merit of CIMNE, Catalonian Government, 1998.

Accesit to the City of Barcelona Award in Technological Research, Barcelona City Council, 1999.

AMCA Award, Argentian Association for Computational Mechanics (AMCA), 2000.

Award of the Spanish Group for Fracture Mechanics, International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI), 2000.

Medal of the School of Civil Engineering to Professional Achievements, Technical University of Catalonia, 2001.

City of Barcelona Award in Technological Research, Barcelona City Council, 2002.

Award for Excellence for Outstanding Paper in Engineering Computations, Emerald Literati Club, 2002.

Duran i Farell Award for Excellence of Research and Technology Transfer, Technical University of Catalonia, 2004.

Medal, University of Jyväskylä (Finland), 2004.

Honorary Member, Portuguese Association for Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics (APMTAC), 2005.

SEMNI Award, Spanish Association for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI), 2007.

Grand Prize, Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES), 2008.

Literati Award for Excellence to the best paper, Engineering Computations, 2009.

O.C. Zienkiewicz Medal, Polish Association for Computational Mechanics (PACM), 2009.

TED Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009.

Computational Mechanics Award, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), 2009.

Gauss-Newton Medal, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 2010.

Advanced Grant, European Research Council (ERC), 2010.

"Dr. Luis Federico Leloir" Award, International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013.

Proof of Concept (FLOODSAFE), European Research Council (ERC), 2014.

Proof of Concept (ICEBREAKER), European Research Council (ERC), 2016.

Award for the contribution to the development of the Discrete Elements Method (DEM), Academy of Sciences of Cuba (Cuba), 2018.

Ildefons Cerdà Medal 2019, Institute of Civil Engineers in Spain (Catalonian Branch), 2019.

Ritz-Galerkin Medal, ECCOMAS, 2020.

Icaro Award, University of A Coruña, 2023.

Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships

Fellow, Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 1998.

Member, Royal Academy of Doctors (Barcelona), 1998.

Doctor Honoris Causa, Ovidius University (Constanza, Rumania), 2000.

Foreign Member, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere (Istituto Lombardo, Milan, Italy), 2006.

Honoris Fellow, Swansea University (UK), 2007.

Doctor Honoris Causa, INSA-Lyon (France), 2012.

Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Las Villas (Cuba), 2013.

Doctor Honoris Causa, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia), 2020.