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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.
The growing overcrowding of natural areas may put ecosystem quality at risk. To assess anthropogenic impact in natural parks, a study by the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the University of Lleida (UdL) has proposed a simple,...
Experts at the CIMNE-UPM ETSII Lab (Aula CIMNE-UPM ETSII) have evaluated the effectiveness of Machine Learning (ML) and satellite imagery to assess water quality in inland settings. In a recent study, Ms. Laura Cáceres, Dr Jorge Rodríguez Chueca and Dr David J....
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has launched DAMSHAI (Dam Structural Health Monitoring and Safety Assessment with an AI Agent), a three-year research project that will explore the application of artificial intelligence to critical...
On 28 October, Professor Michael Ortiz gave a seminar entitled “Science Meets Data: Scientific Computing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at the Palau Robert in Barcelona, to mark his appointment as holder of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in...
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), held in Cáceres, reaffirmed itself as the key gathering of the nuclear sector in Spain. With 694 participants, 248 papers, 42 technical sessions, 23 exhibitors, and 31 sponsors and collaborators, the...
El clúster de Simulació de sòlids i fluids per a processos industrials del CIMNE ha participat en un estudi que proposa un mètode numèric per simular la impressió 3D d’estructures de formigó i les capes que el conformen. Aquest model és una eina valuosa per...
In recent days, several articles have been written about the possible causes of the blackout that hit almost the entire Iberian Peninsula on 28 April 2025, and the various strategies to prevent it from happening again. It seems that the nuclear lobby has found a main...
The ResilMob project, a pioneering initiative to bolster the resilience of geostructures in Catalonia’s Road network, is yielding its first results through a beta system placed in the mountainside of Barcelona’s Montjuïc Mountain, opposite the Ronda...
The IX International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2025) has officially opened its Call for Submissions. The conference is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied...
The 16th Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization, and Control with Applications (EUROGEN 2025) has officially opened its Call for Submissions. Organized by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences...
The BIOntier research project, aimed at advancing sustainable, circular biocomposites with high-performance features for multi-sector applications, officially kicked off this week with a working meeting at the FORTH research centre in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The...
The XII International Conference on Adaptive Modelling and Simulation (ADMOS 2025), set to take place from 9-11 June 2025 in Barcelona, is now accepting abstracts. Researchers and professionals can submit their contributions through the official conference website...
The XVI National Congress on Composite Materials (MATCOMP25), which will be held 8-10 July 2025 in Barcelona, is now accepting abstracts. The submission form is accessible through the congress website and will remain open until December 20. Experts interested in...
Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) is looking for postdoctoral researchers who are interested in joining the Centre through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. The CIMNE Project Management Office is now...
Researchers at CIMNE's Machine Learning in Civil Engineering Research Group and the Flumen Institute have developed a new machine-learning based tool to classify off-stream reservoirs based on their potential risk of rupture. The work, carried out as part of the...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has published a “one-stop reference guide” summarizing all funding opportunities for researcher careers at CIMNE, ranging from junior PhD students to established faculty. The document,...
Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and other Catalan and Spanish institutions have developed a novel methodology to identify threats to...
Researchers from the Machine Learning in Civil Engineering group at CIMNE have developed a new machine-learning based software to predict structural behaviour of dams, allowing for enhanced decision-making and minimizing safety risks of these critical infrastructures....
Doctor Juan Marcelo Gimenez, from the Structural Mechanics research group at CIMNE, has unveiled a new methodology to improve simulation of the powder coating process, an eco-friendly finishing technique used across various industries to create a hard finish...
CIMNE researchers Oluwakemi Akinwehinmi and former head of CIMNE-Nature, Dr. Pedro Arnau del Amo, have presented a novel image augmentation technique to enhance the capability of artificial intelligence (AI) models to detect abandoned pets in the wild....
A group of researchers from the International Centre of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a new methodology for improving Machine Learning-based model forecasting of gound-level ozone (O3), a pollutant of photochemical origin that...
The SuPreAM research project, which aims to optimise manufacturing processes in the steel industrial sector, held its 1st General Assembly at the DRT Rapid facilities in Leiria, Portugal, last December. Professors Josep Maria Carbonell and Fernando Rastellini, from...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, which aims to maintain Europe's global leadership in shipbuilding and ship maintenance through advanced and innovative fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) manufacturing technologies, draw to a close with a final dissemination event in Nantes,...
The CIMNE Evaluation Committee for the Prioritisation of Candidates for the Joan Oró Grants for the recruitment of new research staff (FI-2024), formed by Dr. Pedro Díez Mejía, Dr. Alessandra Di Mariano and Dr. Gabriel Bugeda, which met on...
A group of four CIMNE researchers, led by Dr. Michele Chiumenti as senior author, have developed a new Mechanism-Based (MB) orthotropic damage criterion for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), a popular and affordable 3D printing technology of Additive Manufacturing...
A group of international researchers, led by CIMNE director Prof. Javier Bonet as senior author, has presented a series of new refined schemes to improve the accuracy and stability of the updated Lagrangian SPH (ULSPH) method for structural modelling in a scientific...
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Professor Karen Willcox, director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and member of the Scientific Advisory Council at CIMNE, believes digital twin technology has the potential to “revolutionise decision-making” across...
Researchers from the Bio-medical Engineering Research Group at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a special type of Finite Element (FE) technology in a new paper entitled Empirical Interscale Finite Element Method...
Dr. Gabriel Barbat has been awarded a UPC 2023 Special Doctoral Award in the category of Civil and Environmental Engineering for his thesis "Mixed finite elements with independent strain interpolation for isotropic and orthotropic damage", developed at the CIMNE...
Do you want to start a top scientific career with us? Apply now with us for an INPhINIT fellowships from “La Caixa Foundation”!! We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated candidate interested in STEM disciplines (science, technology,...
On 28 November, Fatigue4Light, a project coordinated by CIMNE to develop lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of electric vehicles, will host a webinar entitled Advanced Fatigue Simulation methodology for Electric Vehicles chassis parts. The event, which...
CIMNE's Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, has published the second issue of Innovation in Transport magazine, offering a deep dive into smart and sustainable mobility solutions and cutting-edge transport research. Articles in this issue This second edition of the...
EN-TRACK will participate in the upcoming Smart City Expo World Congress, to be held in Barcelona from 7 to 9 November 2023. This global event is a hub for urban innovation. It brings together leaders from forward-thinking companies, governments and organisations to...
On October 9th, the Abertis Chair Spain, associated with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, awarded its 20th Abertis Awards for research into sustainable mobility to the best master's and doctoral theses on road infrastructure management and road...
CIMNE participates in the SuPreAM partnership. This is an EU-funded project to develop and improve the performance and capabilities of a predictive simulation model of finishing operations in steel Additive Manufacturing (AM). It integrates the influence of steels,...
We look forward to receiving your proposal and collaborating with you in this exciting research opportunity. We are looking for researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD. The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed...
Would you like to be part of a centre of excellence in numerical methods in engineering and develop your research career with the support of AGAUR? If so, we invite you to submit your application for the Joan Oró 2024 grants, which aim to promote the...
NextGEM, an EU project dedicated to promoting the safety of EMF-based telecommunication technologies, has been highlighted in a review in the Revista Española de Salud Pública regarding the synthesis of the report 'Trends in the incidence of brain...
Fibregy, a pioneering European research project dedicated to revolutionizing offshore energy platforms through the utilization of Fibre-Reinforced Plastics (FRP), recently hosted another highly successful open-door industrial day. This event took place in La Ciotat...
LAIF is an acronym that stands for "A new concept based on computer vision techniques to save lives in drowning risk situations". This project is an innovative initiative aimed at saving lives in drowning risk situations using computer vision techniques. The...
We interviewed Xavier Tort Farrés, a newcomer researcher at CIMNE. This summer, he joined the team working on the SECCO2 project. He is a civil engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), where he is currently pursuing...
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...
As part of the Fatigue4Light project, the consortium partners from UNE Asociación Española de Normalización are organising a kick-off meeting for the CEN Workshop on for the development of a new standard on "Fatigue4Light advanced and fast fatigue...
The ERC’s 2024 Work Programme has been recently adopted by the European Commission. The plan includes a new call for Starting grants for early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work. Starting Grants may be awarded up...
CIMNE participates at Dedalus project, an EU-funded project with a partnership of 23 institutions and companies. Within the programme Horizon Europe (2021-2027), Dedalus will design, develop and demonstrate SSH-driven multi-value energy carrier-agnostic micro...
On 6-7 June 2023 the partners of the FIBRE4YARDS project met for the 5th General Assembly meeting at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland). With the project having entered its final straight, this opportunity for discussion and exchange was very welcome and will...
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...
On 15th June, 2023, CIMNE community gathered in a technical session entitled “Computational Mechanics: Past and future at CIMNE and UPC”. The event hosted a tribute to Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of CIMNE and general director of the centre...
A publication co-authored by CIMNE researcher Fernando Salazar “CALA: Mejora de la seguridad hidrológica” (CALA: Improvement of the Hydrologic security) on the magazine Revista de Obras Públicas. The article explains the results of a...
The CIMNE researcher Andrés Reyes has been awarded with the Cerdà Futur Award for his Master's thesis. 'Life cycle analysis of electric and hydrogen buses to improve decision making' is the title of the awarded work. Sergi Saurí,...
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The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) welcomes Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships applicants! The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to enhance the creative and innovative potential of postdoctoral researchers...
Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of CIMNE and current group leader of the Structural Mechanics research group of the centre, gave a talk this Wednesday 25th of May, 2023, for the Strategic Grouping of the Centre for Technological Innovation in Building and...
On May 5th, Christian Narváez successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Towards Computational Modeling of ElectroHydroDynamics in Microfluidics-based Manufacturing", an outstanding research on manufacturing technologies qualified as an Excellent (Cum Laude...
Gerard Laguna, from CIMNE Beegroup, won the best oral presentation at the International Conference on Energy Economics and Energy Policy (ICEEEP2023). The presentation was carried out in collaboration with Marta Chafer and Josep Mª Granollers, from the...
On 27th April, 2023, CIMNE attended the Kick-off meeting of X4HPC, a network coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and funded by the Government of Catalonia through AGAUR. X4HPC brings together the most representative scientific institutions,...
The PhD student Junior Ramírez has succesfully developed, under the direction of Fernando Rastellini and José Manuel González, a numerical simulation of SLB devices for the company SLB DEVICES S.L.. The work consisted...
CIMNE has recently renewed its Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), an advisory structure appointed by the Governing Council to provide CIMNE with scientific guidance and research excellence assurance. The SAC is composed by independent world leading scientists in the...
CIMNE scientists will be participating next April 28th, 2023, at the 7th International Conference on Energy Economics and Energy Policy (ICEEEP 2023), hosted by the Technical University of Catalonia. Gerard Laguna and Josep Mayós, both from Building, Energy...
The Group for the Dissemination of the H-Index in Spain [indice_h (grupodih.info)] has released their annual list of highly cited scientists in Spain in several fields. Among these, the following four CIMNE scientists lead the first positions in the ranking of...
On 10th April, prof. Enrique Romero, affiliated researcher at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE and full professor at UPC · BarcelonaTech, was invited to the sixth episode of International Technical Talks. It is an event promoted by the International Society for Soil...
On 28th March, Felipe Muñoz La Rivera successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Framework for an eXtended Reality (XR) solution for holistic safety management in construction", a groundbreaking research on XR for safety in construction...
In March 2023, the BIGG project has completed its second year with a significant progress on the Standard Data Model for Buildings, which aligns and harmonises various data sources. The data model also ensures consistent input for the Analytics Toolbox. The objectives...
SEMNI has announced the winners of the latest edition of its awards. Xavier Oliver, leader of the CIMNE research group Computational Design & Analysis of Engineering Metamaterials has been awarded with the SEMNI O. C. Zienkiewicz Award, which recognizes its high...
CIMNE publishes the System and Prioritization Criteria of the requests for the Joan Oró Grants. This call is funded by the European Social Fund and managed by AGAUR. It is focused on the recruitment of pre-doctoral researchers (FI) for the Year 2023....
On the 27th of March 2023 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, a new edition of a Stakeholder Forum on data treatment will go through the process carried out within the ePLANET project to gather, harmonize, and store data focusing on the challenges and benefits of using...
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On occasion of the World Engineering Day, we interviewed the CIMNE researcher Jaime Martí Herrero. Member of CIMNE Beegroup since 2008, he is a doctor in Physical Sciences. In 2009, he began to develop research, development and implementation projects in...
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) has just opened the call for applications to Beatriu de Pinós Grants and CIMNE is looking for applicants to hire postdocs researchers. The application period to present candidates is open until...
Recently, Fabiola Cavaliere has been awarded with a Pioner Award by CERCA institution in recognition of her PhD thesis, which was co-directed by the leader of the Credible data-driven models research group at CIMNE, Pedro Díez, jointly Rubén Sevilla...
In January 2023, the ICREA research professor Ivan Markovsky joined the Credible Data-driven Models group of CIMNE. His expertise is in structured low-rank approximation and completion, direct data-driven methods and system identification. He obtained PhD in...
The round robin test (simultaneous analysis of the same problem) is a method to investigate the variance and sensitivity of the results provided by different analysts for a given problem. This methodology was first applied to the evaluation of the performance of the...
The Goverment of Catalonia, through the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR, according its acronym in catalan), has granted the 100% of the proposals requested by CIMNE in the call SGR-Cat 2021. They consist in grant for support the...
CIMNE researchers published 166 papers in journals in 2022. It represents an increase of 23% comparing with 2021 and a 30% more, if the average of the last five years is taken into account. The list of the papers is available on the Research section of CIMNE’s...
The CIMNE repository on Google Scholar (so-called CIMNE Scholar) has closed 2022 with nearly 110,000 total citations and 8,806 annual citations, which represents a slight increase in comparison with the 8,730 registered in 2021. In this way, the upward trend that...
Fabiola Cavaliere has awarded with a Pioner Award by CERCA institution in recognition of her PhD thesis titled "Static and dynamic global stiffness analysis for automotive pre-design". Cavaliere's PhD thesis was co-directed by the leader of the Credible...
The call for applications to FPI aids to predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Agency State of Research is now open. There are two type of aids, one linked to Severo Ochoa Centers of...
CIMNE Winter School will take all its participants on an excursion into Computational Methods during the last week of January 2023: from the 23rd to the 27th. This is the second edition [check out the sum up of the first edition] of this five days course where the...
The ERC Council has opened a new call for Advanced and Consolidator grants for senior researchers. There are two different calls with different budgets, but both of them for a period of 5 years. Candidates for Advanced grant are called Principal...
From 5th to 8th December, 2022, Budapest hosted the SESAR Innovation Days (SIDs), which gathered 400 of Europe’s leading researchers in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) and aviation domains. Raúl Saez (right) receiving the prize from Andreas Boschen,...
The director of CIMNE, Professor Javier Bonet, has been awarded the last edition of the IACM O.C. Zienkiewicz Award. This is a recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of computational mechanics. The IACM O.C....
On 23rd November, 2022, were delivered the Special Doctoral Awards 2022, corresponding to the 2019/2020 Academic year. CIMNE researchers Alejandro Cornejo and David Roca have been awarded in this edition of this recognition promoted by the Doctorate School of the...
The Goverment of Catalonia, through the Management Agency for University and Research Grants (AGAUR), has published the call with the requirements for the applications to the call "Joan Oró grants for hiring pre-doctoral research staff in training (FI...
From 9 to 10 November 2022, the premises of Deltares in Delft (The Netherlands) hosted a new edition of the Kratos Multiphysics Workshop. The event was held within the Delft Software Days. Deltares was the venue for more than 60 users and developers of...
The calls for applications to the Ramón y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva grants, both financed by the Spanish Government through the State Research Agency, has just been published. The Ramón y Cajal grants are intended to promote the incorporation of...
Professor Antonio Gens, member of the Geomechanics group of CIMNE, has been elected president by the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Professor Antonio Gens will be president for the period 2022-2026 after an...
The CIMNE researcher Sergio Idelsohn has been awarded the International AMCA Award 2022 by the Argentine Association of Computer Mechanics in recognition of his international career. Idelsohn has received the award in the framework of the 38th...
From 14 to 17 November, the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA 2022) was taken in Lisbon. This is the largest European research and technology conference in transport and mobility. The theme of this edition was “Moving together –reimagining mobility...
On 17th November, 2022, the STEM Women Congress 2022 will take place in Barcelona. The venue will be at CosmoCaixa Barcelona. The mission of this event is the visualization and the promotion of the women talent in the field of STEM and this is its fourth edition. A...
CIMNE researchers have been awarded at the 61st Congress in Naval and Maritime Engineering held in Palma de Mallorca from 26th to 28th October, 2022. Borja Serván-Camas and Miguel Calpe, from Naval and Maritime Group of CIMNE, are co-authors of the content of...
The Ministry of Science and Innovation has just opened the call "Consolidación Investigadora" (Research consolidation). The objective of this call is to consolidate the professional career of researchers, national and foreign, so that they can develop their...
CENIT, CIMNE's Innovation Unit in Transport, has launched the first issue of its annual magazine, bringing together cutting-edge research and analysis on the transport challenges shaping our world. The publication reflects the breadth of work underway across the unit,...
From 21 to 30 November 2022, CENIT, the group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, will give a training a course about the distribution of the last mille. The distribution of the last mile is one of the main problems of cities. This course offers to the...
The specialized blog in energy efficiency, ESEficiencia, has recently published an article about EN-TRACK, an EU-funded project coordinated by CIMNE in consortium with the Government of Catalonia (Department of Territory and Sustainability) and the Catalan Institute...
Yesterday, October 6th, 2022, the interim resolution of the call “Strategic projects aimed at the ecological transition and the digital transition 2021” was published by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Research State Agency. In this...
The 50th European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) closed its doors on 22th September 2022. This event, the biggest in Europe focused on engineering education, was hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC). The SEFI...
According an UNESCO resolution, on 11th February the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated. This Day wants to recognize the critical role played by women and girls in science and technology. Coinciding with the celebration,...
It is about to open (expected to be launched in October 2022) the call for applications to FPI, aids to predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Agency State of Research. There are two type...
CIMNE scientists Pavel Ryzhakov, Julio Martí and Mohammad Reza Hashemi have been on charge of the edition of an special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering about coupled CFD problems. The issue is entitled "Advances in Numerical Modeling of...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications will be on 14th September. The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) welcomes applications for this call until a week before the deadline (7th September). Our current Hosting Offers involve these...
In September everything returns to normal and, with the start of the new academic year, CIMNE also begins to work in new projects. On 1st September will start the six new project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation within the State Plan (2021-2023) and...
CIMNE is the coordinator of the ProdPhD, an EU-funded project which aims to create social network tools and procedures for developing entrepreneurial skills in PhD programmes. Started in 2021, this two-year project delivers and demonstrates through different pilot...
Recently, Fatigue4Light project has started different cooperation and collaboration activities with projects working on the development of solutions to promote a more sustainable and greener mobility and Electric Vehicles construction, based on eco-design and...
Professor Joan Baiges, member of the Fluid Mechanics group of CIMNE, has been awarded with the ECCOMAS Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz. This is a recognition for young researchers for their contributions in the field of computational engineering. ECCOMAS has just announced...
At the end of May 2022 has finished the EKATE project, an EU-funded project by ERDF funds within the Interreg POCTEFA programme coordinated by ESTIA. CIMNE has participated in this project which consisted in the investigation for the management of Photovoltaic...
While emerging wireless technologies that use radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) are vital for the European way of life, particularly in telecommunications, there is an increasing consideration of their possible adverse effects on human health and the...
On the 14th June of 2022, two researchers from CIMNE, Pere-Andreu Ubach and Fernando Hermosilla, attended a workshop at the European Parliament in Brussels. The workshop had the title: "La defensa de los grandes deltas europeos: el Ebro, degradación y...
The Government of Catalonia has awarded to the CIMNE researcher Xavier Oliver with the Narcís Monturiol Medal. The government has published the resolution of these awards which recognize the scientific and technological merit of ten researchers of the knowledge...
The journal Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (ARCO) owned by CIMNE and published by Springer has reached an Impact Factor (IF) in 2021 of 8.171. The five year Impact Factor is IF=8.967. The new Impact Factor is a considerable increase of the 2020 value...
The researcher Samra Sarwar from CENIT, the group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, will be presenting her work at the European Transport Conference 2022 that will take place in Milan (Italy). Sarwar will participate in the area of Transport, Economics,...
Prof. Enrique Romero, director of research (UPC·BarcelonaTech) and affiliated researcher (full research professor) at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE, was State-of-the-Art Lecturer "Advances in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics" jointly with Prof. Nasser Khalili (Scientia...
From 25 to 27th May, 2022, the Second International CIMNE Classroom Symposium was held online. More than 50 researchers from seven different countries participated in the Symposium: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Chile and Guatemala, represented by the...
On May 19th, the results of the HAMELIN project were presented in Port-Vendres, a town in the Languedoc-Roussillon region (France). HAMELIN is the acronym for ‘Tools to adapt and improve the management of insect pests’. This project (EFA335/19) is...
Fatigue4Light is an European Commission-funded project which aims to boost the use of lightweight materials in Electric Vehicles' chassis. The project will apply new materials tailored to the requirements of vehicle chassis, such as advanced high-strength steels,...
Professor Antonio Gens has delivered the Terzaghi Oration at the 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering held in Sydney (Australia). The Terzaghi Oration is the preeminent lecture of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and...
CIMNE's PostDoc Advisory Unit Severo Ochoa is organizing today a workshop with 20 CIMNE postdocs at the main premises of CIMNE at the UPC North Campus. The objectives are create community and to have a glimpse of postdocs' work. The event consists on a...
CIMNE, centre belonging to CERCA system, has recently updated its profile at the Research Portal of Catalonia (PRC). This site is an initiative of the General Directorate of Research of the Secretariat of Universities and Research of the Generalitat de Catalunya...
On December 14th, 2021, CIMNE HR department organized a welcome session for new PhD at CIMNE. During the day, the attendees received information about new HR initiatives, specially in the training field. Content of the session: Welcome at CIMNE: organizational chart,...
Photo: Peregrina Quintela, President of the PET MSO-ED and Jordi Jiménez, Director of Technology Transfer and Innovation at CIMNE On 16 March was launched the hub of modelization, simulation and optimization technologies in a digital environment (hub MSO-ED)....
CIMNE participates in the ViladeHack Tourism, an event which will take place from 25 to 27 March 2022. Organized by the Viladecans City Council through the business hub Viladecans Innovation Company (VIE, according its acronym in Spanish), it expects to promote...
Professor Xavier Sànchez-Vila, leader of the Hydrogeology Research Group of CIMNE and Director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Technical University of Catalonia, has been ranked in the 50th position of the Forbes list of the top 50...
Fibregy is an ambitious European innovation project that will enable the extensive use of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) for the next generation of offshore and wind turbine platforms. Led by CIMNE, the Fibregy consortium is working on the development of new...
On 15th February 2022, Professor Antonio Gens has been appointed as a honorary member by the management board of the Spanish Rock Mechanics Society (SEMR, according its acronym in Spanish). Professor Antonio Gens is a Professor of Soil and Rocks Mechanics of the...
The ExaQUte Project is a European H2020 research project coordinated by CIMNE, that spanned from June 2018 to November 2021. The institutions involved in the project include: BSC, TUM, INRIA, VSB-TUO, EPFL, UPC and STR. The main objective of the ExaQUte project...
Prof. Enrique Romero, director of research (UPC·BarcelonaTech) and affiliated researcher (full research professor) at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE, was elected as the new Chair of TC106, the Technical Committee on Unsaturated Soils of the International Society...
With the goal of monitoring chronic diseases, CIMNE participates in an investigation that proposes using the mobile phone as a kind of spirometer. Alberto Tena, member of CIMNE ICT group, is the principal investigator of this project at the centre. Funded by the...
During the last week of January, CIMNE gathered 86 students in the CIMNE Winter School, a five-day course addressed to give a first glance at some basic aspects on computational methods and some interdisciplinary disciplines. The course of 25,5 hours of duration...
Alejandro Cornejo is a postdoctoral researcher at Structural Mechanics group of CIMNE. His research is focused on the improvement of the FEM-DEM methodology for Fluid-Solid Interaction applied to industrial processes. But, in addition to being a researcher, Alejandro...
The NextSim project ( CODA: Next Generation of Industrial Aerodynamic Simulation Code), funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and supported by the research and innovation programmes of Spain, France and Germany, is working to develop the...
KYKLOS 4.0 is an European-funded project within the Horizon 2020 programme which aims to develop an innovative Circular Manufacturing ecosystem based on a novel Circular Production System (CPS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technologies. Through this project,...
CIMNE has registered 8.136 citations in Google Scholar in 2021. This figure represents a 12 percent more than in 2020, a higher increase compared to the 2019/2020 period, in which publications grew by 4,8%. As of January 19, 2022, the account accumulates 93,615 total...
In October, the fishing sector gathered in Asturias (Spain) to celebrate a Day of research and development organized by the Phillipe Cousteau Foundation. The general director for fishing of the Asturian Government, Francisco González, reflected on the...
Fabiola Cavaliere, member of the CIMNE r
Ceremony for presenting Professor Eugenio Oñate with a diploma and the mantle of the Honorary Doctor in Sciences of SPbPU On November 17th, 2021, the Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) presented the Honorary Degree of Doctor of...
The European ePLANET project will use the most innovative tools in artificial intelligence and big data to leverage and exploit energy data from public buildings in order to obtain empirical results on the implementation of energy efficiency measures. One of the main...
Recently, the Gàvius project has launched its first newsletter. Gàvius is an innovative project of the local administration to create a virtual assistant by using of artificial intelligence to able to communicate, process and grant citizens the social...
The Building Energy and Environment Group at CIMNE has developed BeePV, a tool to allow the massive prospection and optimisation of PV solar systems. The differential factor is the integration of the hourly electricity consumption profile of each client, providing...
Recently, CIMNE scientists Rafael Morán and Javier San Mauro has participated in the publication titled "Hydrodynamic Performance and Design Evolution of Wedge-Shaped Blocks for Dam Protection against Overtopping" in the open access magazine Water, within...
Fatigue4Light aims to develop lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of Electric Vehicles to enhance weight reduction compared to current solutions and increase vehicles’ safety due to reduced sprung mass. Solutions will be based on...
The new report launched by the project LASH FIRE is titled "Study and analysis of regulations, accident investigations and stakeholders for bridge alarm panel design". Based on results from the Firesafe II and SEBRA projects, one area of fire-safety related design...
CIMNE researchers Santiago Badia, Jerrad Hampton and Javier Príncipe from the Large Scale Scientific Computing group have recently published the paper "Embedded multilevel monte carlo for uncertainty quantification in random domains" in the american...
The incorporation of the following researchers has been carried out through contracts financed with ref. CEX2018-000797-S / Severo Ochoa Centers of Excellence program, funded by the State Research Agency. Guillermo Casas Position: Severo Ochoa PostDoc Trainee Position...
Fibre4yards is a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 that gathers 13 partner organisations from six European countries -CIMNE (coordinator), SAS L-UP, TSI, TUL, INEGI, NAVAL Group, COMPASSIS, Curve Works, IRURENA, 10XL, Innov Ateknea, Bureau...
A new developer and official version of the software GiD for pre and post processing has been released for all platforms. The latest developer version GiD15.1.1d is ready to download...
eFlows4HPC is now an affiliated project of the HiPEAC network. eFlows4HPC aims to deliver a workflow software stack and an additional set of services to enable the integration of HPC simulations and modelling with big data analytics and machine learning in scientific...
The Fatigue4Light project has just launched its website: https://fatigue4light.eu/ Boosting the use of lightweight materials in Electric Vehicles' chassis through new tests and computer simulation methodologies for electric vehicle chassis weight...
NextSim, CODA: Next generation of industrial aerodynamic simulation code represents a combined research effort focusing on algorithms and HPC is the only way to make possible the development and the advances in simulation tools to cover the requirements of European...
LIFE4MEDECA project aims to inform, discussion and support decision making by complementing ongoing efforts to the establishment of an Emission Control Area (ECA) in the Mediterranean. Among its dissemination actions, the project has just...
On April 20th, 2021, the Mayor of Mataró, David Bote, and the Mayor of Gavà, Raquel Sánchez, gathered the partners of the European project Gàvius in Mataró (Barcelona) to explain the co-creation process that now involves citizen...
Anna Ramon, a member of Geomechanics group at CIMNE, leads ANHY_RISK since September 2019. The project is about risk prediction and safe design in anhydritic rocks. Experience gained during the analysis of swelling phenomena which damaged Lilla tunnel and Pont de...
FLEXCoop aims at introducing a complete automated Demand Response framework and tool suite for residential electricity consumers. The end-to-end interoperable solution will enable consumer flexibility to be valorised in front of a range of possible users in order...
Lucia Barbu (Braila, Romania, 1985) is an Assistant Research Professor at CIMNE and an Associate Professor at Technical University of Catalonia. Since the beginning of this month, she is leading the European Project Fatigue4Light, which consists of the study of...
The European-funded project KYKLOS 4.0 (An Advanced Circular and Agile Manufacturing Ecosystem based on rapid reconfigurable manufacturing process and individualized consumer preferences) has launched the call for Expression of Interest (EoI) for evaluators. The...
The CIMNE researchers Santiago Badia, Alberto F. Martín, Eric Neiva and Francesc Verdugo from Large Scale Scientific Computing Group have recently published the article "A Generic Finite Element Framework on Parallel Tree-Based Adaptive Meshes" on SIAM Journal...
One of the main challenges of increasing energy efficiency investments is the lack of statistical data on the actual energy and costs savings which are achieved through them. Data is still hard to access because it is decentralized and in different formats....
The European project EN-TRACK, coordinated by CIMNE-BEE Group, aims to enable continuous, large-scale data gathering on the energy and financial performance of Energy Efficiency Measures applied to buildings. By creating an open source big data...
On November 18th 2020, Pere-Andreu Ubach has successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled: "BEST: Bézier-Enhanced Shell Triangle. A new rotation-free thin shell finite element". The thesis has been developed in the framework of the PhD Programme in Structural...
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Gerard Laguna has joined recently to Building Energy and Environment research group of CIMNE as a Severo Ochoa PostDoc Trainee. We have interviewed him to know his point of view about energy efficiency as well as what implies for him its new position. -What new...
Organised by SEA Europe and Interferry, the 1st Lash Fire Public Webinar will take place on October 14th, 2020 14:00–15:30, remotely on the GoToWebinar platform. In this webinar partners of the EU-funded LASH FIRE project will present the research done within...
European cities are currently adjusting public health measures to manage COVID-19 transition phases. Public health and transport authorities must anticipate and adapt strategies to maintain low-level or no-transmission status while allowing citizens to safely engage...
The incorporation of the following researchers has been carried out through contracts financed with ref. CEX2018-000797-S / Severo Ochoa Centers of Excellence program, funded by the State Research Agency. Guillermo Casas Position: Severo Ochoa PostDoc Trainee Position...
Severo Ochoa Postdoc Trainee in LSSC GROUP (Barcelona, 1984) Francesc Verdugo is since June 2020 a Severo Ochoa Postdoc Trainee in LSSC research group at CIMNE, a highly interdisciplinary research team led by Prof. Santiago Badia. The main research lines of LSSC...
PhD Research Student (Naples, 1991) Title of her Thesis: “MPM Modelling soil liquefaction” Gaia di Carluccio has recently joined the project Soil in Motion (Ref. RTI2018-097365-B-I00) coordinated by CIMNE and funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation...
From November 2020, CIMNE will coordinate the project EN-TRACK that will promote a Energy Efficiency Performance-Tracking Platform for Benchmarking Savings and Investments in Buildings. Funded by the European Commission through the...
SHERPA is an Interreg MED modular project that will contribute to speeding up the implementation of EU Directives on Energy Performance of Buildings (2010/31/EU) and on Energy Efficiency (2012/27/EU). Its main objective is to reinforce the capacities of public...
OKO Business has launched a tempered safety glass for effective protection screen against all types of viral contagion and with a special and hygienic treatment (Easy Clean Coating) that acts as a neutralizer for bacteria, facilitating the sliding of residues and dirt...
CIMNE is one of the partners of the SMILER project for the development of a loss reduction system in water distribution networks based on Machine Learning. The project (RTC-2017-6324-5), funded by the FEDER through the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities...
CIMNE has been awarded two projects in the “Producte” Call, cofunded by AGAUR and FEDER in framework of the RIS3CAT Plan (2014-2020). The projects are APoEmA, that consists on develop technology to provide fresh water for isolated locations; and...
Recently, was held in Coslada (Madrid) the closure event of the project E-Testing funded by Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce in the framework of the programme Iberoeka of the Industrial and Technological Development Centre (CDTI). The...
On 6th March 2020, the project "LIGHT3D: Laser and Other Lighting Technologies"* will gathered its partners LEITAT, ICIQ, IREC, CIMNE and UPC (IMEM) in the Kick off Meeting at the CIM Foundation's facilities, coordinators of the group Base3D. The...