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 Coruña (UDC) for his “outstanding research achievements”.
Dr. Oñate (València, 1953) has a long academic and research career spanning more than 35 years at the forefront of numerical methods and their application to engineering and structural mechanics at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), where he was Director of the School of Civil Engineering (1983-1989). Prof. Oñate was the founder director of CIMNE in 1987, and the founder and first president of the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering (1989–2004)
Prof. Oñate's scientific contributions and the software derived from his research are of particular relevance for solving multidisciplinary problems in civil, industrial, aerospace, marine and naval engineering, among others. He obtained his PhD in civil engineering from Swansea University, Wales, UK, in 1979 and is a civil engineer from the Technical University of València (1975).
The 2023 ICARO Award was presented on November 24 in an award ceremony at the University of A Coruña and also recognized Ms. Ethel Vázquez, Minister of Infrastructures and Mobility of the Government of Galicia (Spain).
The ICARO award was first honoured in 2006 after the initiative of Prof. Santiago Hernandez, leader of the Structural Mechanics Group at UDC.
