I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Alicante (UA) in Spain.

My research focuses on the development of the Material Point Method (MPM), a particle method useful for solving large deformation problems in solid and fluid mechanics, such as the simulation of granular flows, landslides, and avalanches. In fact, this technique was used to reproduce the snow in the animation for the Frozen movie.

Although my current research is primarily in engineering, I am not an engineer.

A few years ago, I studied mathematics at the University of Alicante in Spain. After completing my degree, I was an enthusiastic mathematician eager to specialize in applied mathematics. I pursued an additional Master’s degree, which equipped me with expertise in mathematical modeling for the numerical simulation of physical phenomena. During my PhD at the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), I worked on developing mathematical models to simulate viscoelastic flows with high elasticity. Then I moved to the Department of Mathematics at the University of Padua in Italy as a postdoctoral researcher. There, I began working with MPM to study the numerical simulation of structures subjected to extreme natural phenomena. Then I followed the same researchline in another additional postdoc in the Technical University of Braunschweig, in Germany. I developed stabilized techniques for incompressible materials (like water) for simulating them using this technique.

I am also part of the Kratos Multiphysics community as developer. Kratos is an open-source simulation software written in C++ and Python.