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With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the IMDEA Materiales research centre this week signed a Framework Agreement to strengthen collaboration and foster innovation in the fields of engineering materials and numerical methods. The...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) yesterday received a high-level delegation from the AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, one of China's leading aerospace research organizations. The visit brought together 24...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment (CAE) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that establishes a comprehensive framework for collaboration in aeronautical research,...
Prof. Oñate (centre) with HM King Felipe VI and Minister Morant Professor Eugenio Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, founding director of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), today received the Spanish National Research Award 2024 in the...
El Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya ha aprovat la subscripció del contracte programa entre l'Administració de la Generalitat i el Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE) per al període...
La consellera de Territori, Habitatge i Transició Ecològica de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Sílvia Paneque i Sureda, ha visitat aquesta setmana la seu del Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE). La...
Professor Michael Ortiz, a globally recognized expert in computational mechanics and numerical methods, has officially arrived in Barcelona this April to assume his role as the head of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in Engineering at the International Centre...
Professor Michael Ortiz, Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in Engineering of CIMNE and UPC, has been awarded the prestigious “2025 Jerald L. Ericksen Prize” by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The prize recognizes his...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has successfully renewed its TECNIO accreditation for the period 2025-2028, reinforcing its position as a leading technology developer in Catalonia's innovation ecosystem. This recognition,...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the IMDEA Materials Institute have established a strategic partnership focused on the development of simulation tools for advanced manufacturing processes of metallic materials. The...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has officially joined Secpho, an innovation cluster that brings together over 150 companies, research centres, and technology experts with a focus on deep tech solutions. By becoming a member of...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) today signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen joint research efforts and foster knowledge transfer in the fields of...
L'Honorable consellera de Recerca i Universitats, Sra. Núria Montserrat, ha visitat avui la seu del Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE) a Barcelona. La visita, encapçalada pel director del centre, el...
Dr. Mª del Carmen Andrade Perdrix, Distinguished Senior Researcher at CIMNE, has been awarded the prestigious fib Medal of Merit 2024 by the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib). This accolade recognizes Dr. Andrade’s remarkable...
From 2 to 6 December, the heads of the Technology Transfer Units of several centres of the CERCA system made a strategic visit to the cities of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, Argentina. The mission aimed to strengthen international relations and promote knowledge transfer...
Professor Michael (Miguel) Ortiz, one of the leading voices in the field of computational science and numerical methods research, will join the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) next year as the head of the UNESCO Chair of Numerical...
Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Senior Distinguished Researcher at the centre, has been awarded the prestigious Spanish National Research Award 2024 in the Leonardo Torres Quevedo...
A delegation from the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) received in Madrid on Thursday, September 5, the award recognising it as a Severo Ochoa (SO) Centre of Excellence for the period 2019-2024. The Spanish Minister of Science,...
Dr Eugenio Oñate, CIMNE’s founder and former director, has been appointed the new President of the Board of Trustees of the IMDEA MATERIALS Institute (Madrid Institute for Advanced Materials Studies), the chapter of public research institutes supported by...
CIMNE’s Director, Dr. Javier Bonet, has been awarded the prestigious Grand Prize 2023 from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES). JSCES awarded Dr. Bonet the organization's top recognition as a testament to his outstanding...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) yesterday celebrated the official opening of its research facilities in Lleida, an office and lab space within Lleida’s Agrobiotech research park. The new facilities, opened in 2022, host the...
El Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria (CIMNE) ha incorporat a la seva plantilla quatre joves mitjançant el programa Primera experiència a l’Administració Pública, finançat pel Servei...
The Director of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Dr Javier Bonet, today led the opening of the centre's first Roadmapping Exercise, a two-day strategic event that brings together researchers, local businesses and public...
CIMNE’s founding director and scientific director of the Severo Ochoa Programme of Excellence, Professor Eugenio Oñate, has been awarded the 2023 ICARO Award by the Structural Mechanics Group of the School of Civil Engineering of the University of A...
The CIMNE-led PIKSEL project, which has developed a management and forecasting tool to study environmental, demographic, economic and social phenomena in Catalonia, has been recognised as the best R+D+I collaborative work in the second edition of the Joan Roget...
CIMNE participates in the meeting of UNESCO Chairs to discuss the challenges of higher education. Cecilia Soriano, the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods host by the UPC and managed by CIMNE, is attending this meeting held in Cordoba....
The Catalan research centres, in collaboration with the Government of Catalonia, gathered within the CERCA Institution, represent the fourth-largest research organization in terms of fundraising for Horizon Europe science during the calls for 2021 and 2022. With more...
On September 8th, 2023, a Japanese delegation from the Earth Disaster Intelligent System & Operational Network (EDiSON) initiative conducted a strategic visit to CIMNE. It was promoted by the Government of Catalonia, and particularly, by Ms. Mònica...
If you obtained your PHD between the 5th of October, 2016 and the 5th of October, 2021 this may interest you! The ”la Caixa” Foundation is offering 40 three-year postdoctoral fellowships for the recruitment of experienced researchers to carry out...
The article "A fully Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flows and fracturing solids" coauthored by CIMNE scientists Alejandro Cornejo, Alessandro Franci, Francisco Zárate and Eugenio Oñate has been awarded...
Five of the proposals submitted by CIMNE to the "Generation of Knowledge 2022" received funding of 732,500 euros, representing a success rate of 45%. This call is cofunded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the State Research Agency, and...
CIMNE scientific journals, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering and International Journal of Numerical Methods for Calculation and Design in Engineering (RIMNI), have improved their Impact Factor (IF) in 2022. This index, calculated by Clarivate, has been...
CIMNE has signed a collaboration agreement with the Korean Railway Research Institute (KRRI) at the beginning of June. The signature took place at the premises of CIMNE in Barcelona and it will allow to collaborate on research to obtain origin-destination...
On November 17, 2022, the CIMNE Severo Ochoa Mobility Program was published, with closing date December 16, 2022. The objective of the Program is to foster research collaborations of CIMNE researchers with partner institutions, promoting the sharing of expertise and...
On 18 December, KRO-NCRV, a public television and radio organization in the Netherlands, broadcasted the investigation documentary about the Brumadinho dam failure titled "The deadly dam burst" via Pointer, a new digital platform for acclaimed Dutch data...
Professor Javier Bonet has started on May 16th as the new General Director of CIMNE. He joins CIMNE taking over from Professor Eugenio Oñate, CIMNE’s founding director and current Vice-president of the Governing Council. “It is a great honour, but...
A commission chaired by the president of SEMNI Elías Cueto has unanimously deliberated that the Best Thesis of the Year 2021 is the one defended by David Codony. Currently Severo Ochoa Post Doc Trainee at the Mechanics of Electroactive Materials research team,...
On January 25, 2019, a mining waste dam of the company Vale SA suddenly collapsed, generating a tsunami of millions of cubic meters of water and toxic mud over the region. It is the biggest environmental disaster in the history of Brazil and 270 people lost their...
The 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics & ECCOMAS Congress took from January 11th to 15th, 2021. The Opening Session was introduced by the presidents of both scientific societies organizers of the event, Prof. Antonio Huerta (IACM) and Michał Kleiber...
Professor David Roger Jones Owen, Roger for his friends, died in Swansea at the age of 77 on Monday January 13th. He was Emeritus Professor in the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre at Swansea University, Wales, UK, and an international authority on finite...