Personal Data

Pedro DÍEZ MEJÍA

pdiezcimne.upc.edu

pedro.diezupc.edu

+34 93 401 72 40  /  44241 (movil)

Branch

Barcelona


Office

Edifici C2

Despatx 209D


Address

C/Gran Capità, s/n Campus Nord UPC, Edificio C1

08034, Barcelona, Barcelona, España

Professional Profile

RTD Group

Scientific Director

Position in CIMNE

Full Research Professor

Scopus ID

8147531800

ORCID

0000-0001-6464-6407

Researcher ID

H-5890-2011

CV Pedro Díez is full professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech). He is the director of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Computational Mechanics, vice-president of ECCOMAS (European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, formerly secretary since 2004) and coordinator the SEAT industrial chair in UPC. His main research achievements pertain to the field of Computational Mechanics and, in particular, error estimation and adaptivity for finite elements and alternative discretization methods (Reduced Order Models, meshfree methods, XFEM…). He was visiting professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Ecole Centrale de Paris and Politecnico di Milano and visiting researcher at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (Ispra, Italy). He has authored more than 50 papers in indexed journals and he has co-chaired the six editions of ADMOS, International Conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation, at Goteborg (twice), Barcelona, Brussels, Paris and Lisbon. He served as Vice-Rector for International Policy, coordinating also the participation of UPC in the KIC Innoenergy (2010-2013). He got the IACM Fellow Award, at the 2010 edition.