Trajectory

Industrial Engineer in 1992, (UPV/EHU), Doctor in Industrial Engineering, 1996 (Public University of Navarre) and Master by Research in Offshore Tidal Turbines, 2009 (University of Cranfield, UK). Associate Professor (UPV/EHU), School of Engineering, Department of Energy Engineering, since 1993. Tutor at the OPEN UNIVERSITY (Spain), since 1997.

Head of a doctoral course, 1999, focused on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Visiting professor at Cranfield University (UK) since 2009, carrying out several research stays since 2008 with a total of 12 months, awarded by the Ministry of Education on the topic related to the optimization of offshore tidal turbines through CFDs. He supervises six doctoral students in this field, having been a member of doctoral thesis tribunals at different national and international level. Co-author of two patents (1998 and 2019), author of several teaching books with ISBNs, as well as books and book chapters in prestigious international publishers. He has led numerous research projects in the field of energy, in particular in renewables, among which the recent MATHEO project (KK-2019/00085) in marine renewable energies stands out. In addition, I have also numerous projects derived from R&D contracts with companies and public administrations.

Member of 6 Tribunals of the ACREDITA PLUS and 2 SIC (INTERNATIONAL) labels for ANECA (National Agency for Evaluation and Quality Assessment), having evaluated up to now more than 10 grade and master programmes worldwide.

Member of the consolidated research group of the Basque Government (2013-2018) IT781-13, principal investigator of the consolidated research group of the Basque Government (2019-2021) IT1314-19 and also principal investigator of the consolidated research group of the Basque Government (2022-2025) IT1415-22.

Member of ASHRAE 1998, member of the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 1999 and regular Referee for several international journals (Elsevier) such as, Applied Thermal Engineering since 2004 or Energy since 2007 among others, as well as member of the Editorial Committee of several international journals: “Energy ”, Member of the UPV/EHU strategic planning committee since 2005, member of the board of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics Studies, 2006, member of ASME, 2006 and member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2008 and member of the steering committee of the Spanish Society for Clime and Refrigeration (ATECYR) since 2009, being actually the President of the Delegation of ATECYR for the Basque Country.

It has been awarded two prizes by the OPEN UNIVERSITY for research projects in minimizing the environmental impacts associated with certain industrial processes in 2005 and 2007 and also awarded in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively by the UPV/EHU for the quality of the teaching procedures implemented in the Bologna teaching-learning context. Awarded with a grant by MICROSOFT artificial intelligence (2020) with prof. G. Iglesias (University College Cork, Ireland) in the AI for Earth program. Research award CUBA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (2016), and recognized as a Researcher associated to Tecnalia (November 2020).

Chairman of the International Congress of Numerical Methods in Engineering 2013 (CMN'2013), and the Heat Powered Cycles Conference 2022 (HPCC’2022) and member of the scientific committee of several international congresses among which ECCOMASS'2014, CMN'2015, ECCOMASS'2016, CMN'2017, EWTEC 2021 and organizer of the following edition of the European Wave and Tidal Conference (EWTEC 2023).

Director of the MORE master (Master Offshore Renewable energy) since 2016 and Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master REM (Renewable Energy in the Marine environment) since 2018 as well as the recently awarded Erasmus Mundus REM PLUS since 2020.

Holder of 4 consecutive six-year research periods, the last one was granted in July 2020 (period 2014-2019).

Co-director of 7 doctoral theses already presented since 2010 in the field of fluid mechanics and energy, all of them with an outstanding cum laude qualification, 4 of them with International Doctorate mention and 2 with Industrial Doctorate mention respectively.

As of October 2022, I have co-authored 56 papers with a JCR impact index, 43 in the first-second quartiles and 13 corresponding to the third-fourth ones, in the areas of “energy and fuels” and “engineering marine”. In addition, I have published additional 8 papers with SJR impact index and another 12 in the category of other articles, the last one invited in the “Revista economía industrial MINECO”. I have also co-authored 72 research conference papers, plus other 29 in the teaching category and other 32 invited conferences, all of them with proceedings, in addition to 15 books and 20 book chapters (1 more in press), all of them in publishers of reference.

The hindex is 14 (Scopus) and the total number of citations is 631, with 410 citations during the last five years (2018-2022).

Web of Science: Researcher ID: K-9988-2014

Orcid code: 0000-0003-0191-2063

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