NAIARA ORTEGA RODRIGUEZ
- Knowledge area
- Mechanical Engineering
- Department
- Mechanical Engineering
- Centre
- Faculty of Engineering - Bilbao
- Electronic mail
- naiara.ortega@ehu.eus
Naiara Ortega is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of the Basque Country since 2011. She defended his Doctoral thesis in 2005 and, since 2007, she is part of the High Performance Manufacturing Group. From then on, she has been working closely with the aeronautics industry, specifically in the field of precision technologies (mainly on grinding and EDM). Since 2015 she leads a new research line on Dimensional Metrology and NDTs (Computerized Tomography-XRCT) applied to aeronautical components. She is member of the Technological Committee of the Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Centre (CFAA) where she mainly performs her research activity. She has directed numerous R&D projects and, as a result of this intense research activity, she has published more than 40 scientific papers and contributed to numerous national and international congresses. She has directed three theses on grinding field and she is currently supervising two more, one on Computerized Tomography and the second one on high speed grinding on aeronautical alloys. Naiara Ortega has an h-index of 17 in Scopus.