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With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
With nine research clusters, three innovation units, and a global network with deep local roots, the CIMNE community is driving constant progress. Stay updated on scientific breakthroughs, international projects, and corporate developments shaping the future of engineering.
The persistent rainfall that fell in Catalonia in January 202 led to tragic situations, such as the Gelida rail accident caused by the collapse of a retaining wall, as well as landslides in other parts of the commuter network. We speak with Dr Núria M. Pinyol, a...
On Tuesday, 27 January 2026, in Gelida, Catalonia, a commuter train collided with a retaining wall that is believed to have come loose due to heavy rain. The accident resulted in one fatality, a trainee driver, and 37 people were injured. As a result of the incident,...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Singular Aircraft have signed a letter of intent framing strategic collaboration in research, development and innovation in the aeronautical field. The document, signed on Tuesday, aims to...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has successfully renewed its quality certification to provide engineering services for structural calculations to the nuclear power plants operated by the Ascó-Vandellós Nuclear Association (ANAV),...
Dr. Sergi Saurí, director of CENIT —the transport innovation unit at CIMNE— stressed today that “meeting the planned investment schedule” and ensuring a strong “maintenance commitment”, both tied to sound governance, are key to improving Rodalies de Catalunya, the...
Professor Michele Chiumenti and Professor Marino Arroyo have been awarded grants in the 2025 Academia Excellence programme, formerly known as ICREA Academia, by the Government of Catalonia. The programme, which selected 50 faculty members from the Catalan university...
On 10 December, Barcelona hosted the official presentation of a study on port governance that promises to become a reference for maritime policy in the Mediterranean region. Dr. Sergi Saurí, director of CENIT, the Innovation Unit in Transport at CIMNE, presented the...
As of today, Sant Cugat will host modular goods transfer zones in Plaça Joan Borràs and on Rambla del Torrent d'en Xandri. They have also been installed in other Catalan cities including Granollers, Sabadell and Mataró. These “nanotransfer hubs”, a pioneer in Europe,...
Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and full professor at the UPC School of Civil Engineering, was elected on November 18 as a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (Real Academia de...
Genís Majoral, researcher in our Innovation Unit in Transport (CENIT), successfully defended his doctoral thesis on December 1 at UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech). “Designing Robust Transport Policy Mechanisms for Multiple Economic and...
The Minister of Business and Labour, the Honorable Mr. Miquel Sàmper i Rodríguez, together with the Director General for Industry, Mr. Xavier Roca Ramón, have visited this week the headquarters of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)...
CENIT, CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport, has just released Issue 4 of CENIT magazine: Innovation in Transport Review. The innovation team presents insights and findings from some of their latest research, focusing on topics such as electrification in public...
On 28 October, Professor Michael Ortiz gave a seminar entitled “Science Meets Data: Scientific Computing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at the Palau Robert in Barcelona, to mark his appointment as holder of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in...
November 4-6, 2025 | Fira Gran Via, Barcelona CIMNE's Stand: Hall 3, D50 Tomorrow Mobility: Hall 3, S53 The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) features innovative simulation and smart solutions in this year's edition of the Smart City...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the IMDEA Materiales research centre this week signed a Framework Agreement to strengthen collaboration and foster innovation in the fields of engineering materials and numerical methods. The...
Researchers at CENIT, the Innovation Unit in Transport of CIMNE, along with project partner HINICIO, have contributed to a World Bank report that identifies Colombia’s potential to become a major supplier of green hydrogen–based fuels for shipping and other...
Barcelona’s shared bike network Bicing has helped encourage active mobility among citizens A new publication from CENIT — Innovation Unit in Transport at CIMNE and the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) in Singapore shows how a cross-domain approach to...
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE), held in Cáceres, reaffirmed itself as the key gathering of the nuclear sector in Spain. With 694 participants, 248 papers, 42 technical sessions, 23 exhibitors, and 31 sponsors and collaborators, the...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) yesterday received a high-level delegation from the AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, one of China's leading aerospace research organizations. The visit brought together 24...
On this International Women in Engineering Day, we spotlight the work of Chiara Saragani, a researcher at CIMNE Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, and PhD fellow at the Port of Barcelona. Her work is contributing to the advancement of port management and...
El clúster de Simulació de sòlids i fluids per a processos industrials del CIMNE ha participat en un estudi que proposa un mètode numèric per simular la impressió 3D d’estructures de formigó i les capes que el conformen. Aquest model és una eina valuosa per...
CIMNE and the Catalan company Pro-activa, with the support and encouragement of the Catalan Business Competitiveness Agency (ACCIÓ), have teamed up to create an Artificial Vision technology aimed at helping to prevent drownings at beaches. The system...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment (CAE) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that establishes a comprehensive framework for collaboration in aeronautical research,...
El CIMNE i l’empresa Pro-activa, amb l’impuls i suport de l’Agència Catalana per la Competitivitat de l’Empresa (ACCIÓ), han col·laborat en la creació d’una Tecnologia de Visió Artificial per ajudar a...
Temporary storage of radioactive waste prior to deep geological disposal. Electricity today accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Countries such as France, Sweden, Finland and Canada have...
Researchers at CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, have begun working on a significant new project that aims to provide insights into one of the most pressing developments in European shipping: the extension of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)...
Jakarta took a step closer in its journey toward a more sustainable, breathable future in April, as Sergi Sauri and Tomas Henriquez from CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport (CENIT) led a validation workshop focused on shaping the city's future Integrated Low...
Prof. Oñate (centre) with HM King Felipe VI and Minister Morant Professor Eugenio Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, founding director of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), today received the Spanish National Research Award 2024 in the...
CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, joined European partners in Paris in June for the closing meeting of RAIL4CITIES, an international project under the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, hosted at the headquarters of the UIC – International Union of...
El Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya ha aprovat la subscripció del contracte programa entre l'Administració de la Generalitat i el Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE) per al període...
In recent days, several articles have been written about the possible causes of the blackout that hit almost the entire Iberian Peninsula on 28 April 2025, and the various strategies to prevent it from happening again. It seems that the nuclear lobby has found a main...
La consellera de Territori, Habitatge i Transició Ecològica de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Sílvia Paneque i Sureda, ha visitat aquesta setmana la seu del Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE). La...
Professor Michael Ortiz, a globally recognized expert in computational mechanics and numerical methods, has officially arrived in Barcelona this April to assume his role as the head of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in Engineering at the International Centre...
The ResilMob project, a pioneering initiative to bolster the resilience of geostructures in Catalonia’s Road network, is yielding its first results through a beta system placed in the mountainside of Barcelona’s Montjuïc Mountain, opposite the Ronda...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has presented a pioneering Climate Vulnerability Map for Barcelona, marking a significant advancement in urban climate resilience strategies. The tool, developed as part of the "Climate Ready...
Article adapted from original article by Alex Mumbrú Camprubí and Genís Majoral Oller Road transport in Fiji is highly dependent on petroleum fuels and accounts for 60% of the total petroleum consumption in the country. CIMNE’s Innovation...
Professor Michael Ortiz, Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods in Engineering of CIMNE and UPC, has been awarded the prestigious “2025 Jerald L. Ericksen Prize” by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The prize recognizes his...
For this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re talking to Clara Soler Bañuelos, a Researcher at CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport (CENIT) - and PhD fellow at The Metropolitan Transport Authority of the Barcelona Area (ATM). From Civil Engineering to...
Public transport in Catalonia has been benefiting from temporary fare subsidies, which are only guaranteed until 30 June, 2025. Once they expire, it is not clear who should bear the cost of public transport, a share split between end users ─through ticket fares─ and...
Known for its beautiful landscape and vibrant culture, Bali is facing a growing challenge from traffic congestion and pollution. As tourism and population growth continue to rise, carbon emissions from traditional fuel-powered vehicles threaten environmental...
By Clara Soler i Bañuelos In the coming years, public transport authorities will face unprecedented financing challenges amidst radical transformations in urban mobility. CIMNE's Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, operates at the critical intersection of...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has successfully renewed its TECNIO accreditation for the period 2025-2028, reinforcing its position as a leading technology developer in Catalonia's innovation ecosystem. This recognition,...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the IMDEA Materials Institute have established a strategic partnership focused on the development of simulation tools for advanced manufacturing processes of metallic materials. The...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has officially joined Secpho, an innovation cluster that brings together over 150 companies, research centres, and technology experts with a focus on deep tech solutions. By becoming a member of...
The IX International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2025) has officially opened its Call for Submissions. The conference is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) today signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen joint research efforts and foster knowledge transfer in the fields of...
L'Honorable consellera de Recerca i Universitats, Sra. Núria Montserrat, ha visitat avui la seu del Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a l'Enginyeria (CIMNE) a Barcelona. La visita, encapçalada pel director del centre, el...
A novel study by researchers at CIMNE and the Port of Barcelona has developed an innovative framework to accurately quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road transport activities within seaports. The research, which combines advanced data collection methods...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has unveiled a cutting-edge machine learning model designed to predict high-resolution electricity demand in Catalonia, addressing the challenges posed by climate change and increasing...
The 16th Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization, and Control with Applications (EUROGEN 2025) has officially opened its Call for Submissions. Organized by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, led by Xavier Martínez Garcia, a professor at the Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona (FNB) at the UPC and researcher at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), has been awarded the prestigious JEC...
Dr. Mª del Carmen Andrade Perdrix, Distinguished Senior Researcher at CIMNE, has been awarded the prestigious fib Medal of Merit 2024 by the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib). This accolade recognizes Dr. Andrade’s remarkable...
From 2 to 6 December, the heads of the Technology Transfer Units of several centres of the CERCA system made a strategic visit to the cities of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, Argentina. The mission aimed to strengthen international relations and promote knowledge transfer...
Professor Michael (Miguel) Ortiz, one of the leading voices in the field of computational science and numerical methods research, will join the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) next year as the head of the UNESCO Chair of Numerical...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, coordinated by the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), has been named a finalist in the prestigious JEC Composites Innovation Awards 2025, under the category of Maritime Transportation & Shipbuilding. These...
Dealing with sustainable mobility challenges is no easy task: from technological barriers to physical and infrastructure constraints, the evolution of urban transport is as complex as it is inevitable. The Turkish capital city of Ankara decided to address this...
The BIOntier research project, aimed at advancing sustainable, circular biocomposites with high-performance features for multi-sector applications, officially kicked off this week with a working meeting at the FORTH research centre in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The...
CIMNE’s Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT has released the Issue 3 of its magazine, Innovation in Transport Review. In this issue, experts from the group present insights and findings from some of their recent research, focusing on topics such as advanced transport...
CIMNE researchers last week presented two use cases for monitoring air quality in Barcelona and predict energy consumption in extreme climate events in Catalonia, both implemented on the “Data Lake” of Destination Earth, an ambitious European endeavour to...
Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and Senior Distinguished Researcher at the centre, has been awarded the prestigious Spanish National Research Award 2024 in the Leonardo Torres Quevedo...
Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Around 3,000 maritime incidents occur every year in the European maritime fleet. 28% of these accidents are categorised as severe or very severe accidents. CIMNE is working with twelve other European partners to...
The XII International Conference on Adaptive Modelling and Simulation (ADMOS 2025), set to take place from 9-11 June 2025 in Barcelona, is now accepting abstracts. Researchers and professionals can submit their contributions through the official conference website...
Railway stations hold a unique position in the urban landscape: they not only act as complex nodes of mobility and transport, but also as public places that can be seen as integral elements of the city. Consequently, stations have a decisive impact on their urban...
The XVI National Congress on Composite Materials (MATCOMP25), which will be held 8-10 July 2025 in Barcelona, is now accepting abstracts. The submission form is accessible through the congress website and will remain open until December 20. Experts interested in...
Schools play a central role in urban spaces, often serving as a second home for children. But modern cities can struggle with heavy traffic and congestion, particularly around school zones. Heavy traffic not only puts children at risk but also contributes to air and...
CIMNE’s innovation unit in transport, CENIT, is one of the more than 40 cross-cutting partners involved in the PIONEERS project, an ambitious European initiative led by the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, that addresses the challenges that maritime terminals in the...
Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was...
A delegation from the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) received in Madrid on Thursday, September 5, the award recognising it as a Severo Ochoa (SO) Centre of Excellence for the period 2019-2024. The Spanish Minister of Science,...
English CIMNE presents an opportunity to license its CoolSteam technology for seawater desalination using an innovative vacuum evaporation-condensation method. This method significantly reduces the use of electrical energy compared to current technologies. Interested...
Este junio se ha abierto el proceso público de contratación de la asistencia técnica de gestión y coordinación del proyecto INTERREG EKATE+, en el cual participa CIMNE y que mejorará las comunidades energéticas...
Dr Eugenio Oñate, CIMNE’s founder and former director, has been appointed the new President of the Board of Trustees of the IMDEA MATERIALS Institute (Madrid Institute for Advanced Materials Studies), the chapter of public research institutes supported by...
CIMNE’s Director, Dr. Javier Bonet, has been awarded the prestigious Grand Prize 2023 from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES). JSCES awarded Dr. Bonet the organization's top recognition as a testament to his outstanding...
El Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE) es uno de los seis socios del proyecto transfronterizo europeo EKATE+, una iniciativa que usará tecnologías basadas en inteligencia artificial (IA), gemelos digitales...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) yesterday celebrated the official opening of its research facilities in Lleida, an office and lab space within Lleida’s Agrobiotech research park. The new facilities, opened in 2022, host the...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) is looking for postdoctoral researchers who are interested in joining the Centre through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. The CIMNE Project Management Office is now...
Researchers at CIMNE's Machine Learning in Civil Engineering Research Group and the Flumen Institute have developed a new machine-learning based tool to classify off-stream reservoirs based on their potential risk of rupture. The work, carried out as part of the...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has published a “one-stop reference guide” summarizing all funding opportunities for researcher careers at CIMNE, ranging from junior PhD students to established faculty. The document,...
Dr. Pere-Andreu Ubach, from the Civil and Environmental Engineering research group at CIMNE, this week defended the need to validate the effectiveness of inflatable breakwaters to minimize coastline erosion and promote the recovery of seagrass meadows. Speaking for...
Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and other Catalan and Spanish institutions have developed a novel methodology to identify threats to...
El Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria (CIMNE) ha incorporat a la seva plantilla quatre joves mitjançant el programa Primera experiència a l’Administració Pública, finançat pel Servei...
More than 9 out of 10 participants in CIMNE’s Winter School 2024, which introduced PhD students into the basics of Computational Methods, say they found the topics covered in the course “very interesting”, and would attend a similar workshop...
Researchers from the Machine Learning in Civil Engineering group at CIMNE have developed a new machine-learning based software to predict structural behaviour of dams, allowing for enhanced decision-making and minimizing safety risks of these critical infrastructures....
The Director of the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Dr Javier Bonet, today led the opening of the centre's first Roadmapping Exercise, a two-day strategic event that brings together researchers, local businesses and public...
Doctor Juan Marcelo Gimenez, from the Structural Mechanics research group at CIMNE, has unveiled a new methodology to improve simulation of the powder coating process, an eco-friendly finishing technique used across various industries to create a hard finish...
CIMNE researchers Oluwakemi Akinwehinmi and former head of CIMNE-Nature, Dr. Pedro Arnau del Amo, have presented a novel image augmentation technique to enhance the capability of artificial intelligence (AI) models to detect abandoned pets in the wild....
Our Last Mile Distribution course, organised in collaboration with EIT Urban Mobility, has been a huge success.⦁ Sergi Sauri, Director of CENIT, kicked off the first session with an overview of the pressing issues surrounding last-mile distribution in cities.⦁ In week...
This year’s Smart City Expo 2023 held at the Fira Barcelona was a chance for the CENIT team to connect with brilliant minds across the field of Smart Cities and sustainable mobility.Our stand was a hive of activity with visitors from around the world including...
A group of researchers from the International Centre of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a new methodology for improving Machine Learning-based model forecasting of gound-level ozone (O3), a pollutant of photochemical origin that...
The SuPreAM research project, which aims to optimise manufacturing processes in the steel industrial sector, held its 1st General Assembly at the DRT Rapid facilities in Leiria, Portugal, last December. Professors Josep Maria Carbonell and Fernando Rastellini, from...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, which aims to maintain Europe's global leadership in shipbuilding and ship maintenance through advanced and innovative fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) manufacturing technologies, draw to a close with a final dissemination event in Nantes,...
The CIMNE Evaluation Committee for the Prioritisation of Candidates for the Joan Oró Grants for the recruitment of new research staff (FI-2024), formed by Dr. Pedro Díez Mejía, Dr. Alessandra Di Mariano and Dr. Gabriel Bugeda, which met on...
A group of four CIMNE researchers, led by Dr. Michele Chiumenti as senior author, have developed a new Mechanism-Based (MB) orthotropic damage criterion for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), a popular and affordable 3D printing technology of Additive Manufacturing...
CIMNE spin-off Inergy, a provider of advanced energy consultancy services and tools, has won the tender to provide the island of Menorca (Spain) with an advanced energy management system to optimise and reduce energy consumption on the island, a UNESCO Biosphere...
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...
SimTwins, a collaborative initiative developed by CIMNE to improve the future of industries through digital twins, has won the first prize in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Innovation Journey award. The prize, presented yesterday to Sebastian Ares,...
A group of international researchers, led by CIMNE director Prof. Javier Bonet as senior author, has presented a series of new refined schemes to improve the accuracy and stability of the updated Lagrangian SPH (ULSPH) method for structural modelling in a scientific...
The CIMNE-led PIKSEL project, which has developed a management and forecasting tool to study environmental, demographic, economic and social phenomena in Catalonia, has been recognised as the best R+D+I collaborative work in the second edition of the Joan Roget...
Researchers from the EU-funded Building Information, aGGregation, harmonisation, and analytics project (BIGG), in which CIMNE is a partner, have published a series of business cases demonstrating the practical application of big data and data analytic techniques to...
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Professor Karen Willcox, director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and member of the Scientific Advisory Council at CIMNE, believes digital twin technology has the potential to “revolutionise decision-making” across...
Researchers from the Bio-medical Engineering Research Group at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a special type of Finite Element (FE) technology in a new paper entitled Empirical Interscale Finite Element Method...
The European Public Local Authorities‘ Network for driving the Energy Transition (ePLANET) project has revealed budget constraints and lack of financial and technical expertise as the main obstacles local authorities in Europe face in designing their energy...
Dr. Gabriel Barbat has been awarded a UPC 2023 Special Doctoral Award in the category of Civil and Environmental Engineering for his thesis "Mixed finite elements with independent strain interpolation for isotropic and orthotropic damage", developed at the CIMNE...
Do you want to start a top scientific career with us? Apply now with us for an INPhINIT fellowships from “La Caixa Foundation”!! We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated candidate interested in STEM disciplines (science, technology,...
On 28 November, Fatigue4Light, a project coordinated by CIMNE to develop lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of electric vehicles, will host a webinar entitled Advanced Fatigue Simulation methodology for Electric Vehicles chassis parts. The event, which...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) will participate in the Smart City Expo Congress 2023, which will take place from 7 to 9 November at the Fira de Barcelona. At the event, CENIT Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport will...
CIMNE's Innovation Unit in Transport, CENIT, has published the second issue of Innovation in Transport magazine, offering a deep dive into smart and sustainable mobility solutions and cutting-edge transport research. Articles in this issue This second edition of the...
In mid-September, CIMNE researcher Pere Andreu Ubach took part in a conference on sand management for beach sustainability, organised by Sitges Town Council . The aim of the meeting was to find the best solutions and actions to conserve and restore...
EN-TRACK will participate in the upcoming Smart City Expo World Congress, to be held in Barcelona from 7 to 9 November 2023. This global event is a hub for urban innovation. It brings together leaders from forward-thinking companies, governments and organisations to...
WE’RE HIRING! CENIT is looking for a Transport Researcher to join our team of diverse and experienced multilingual researchers. Location: UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Working Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week) Responsibilities: ⦁ Work on innovative transport and...
CENIT’S ANDRÉS REYES DÍAZ WINS THE ABERTIS PRIZE FOR BEST MASTER’S DISSERTATION IN SPAIN The Abertis Spain Chair, associated with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, awarded its 20th Abertis Awards for research into Sustainable Mobility to the best Master's and...
UNLOCKING SUSTAINABLE FUNDING: CIMNE'S COLLABORATION WITH ATM FOR FUTURE PUBLIC TRANSPORT MODELS In order to define a sustainable, permanent, sufficient, and stable funding model for public transport until the year 2040, the ATM (Autoritat del Transport Metropolità)...
CENIT'S LATEST STUDY REVEALS THE IMPACT OF THE EU ETS ON MARITIME TRANSPORT CENIT has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the EU ETS extension. The resulting study shows how the EU ETS would impact on the European maritime system negatively. The main reason is that...
A STEP FORWARD FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY IN COSTA RICA CENIT visited San José in Costa Rica last month to deliver the key outcomes from our consultancy focused on the electrification of Costa Rica's San José Metropolitan Area (SJMA) public transport. Costa Rica has set...
On October 9th, the Abertis Chair Spain, associated with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, awarded its 20th Abertis Awards for research into sustainable mobility to the best master's and doctoral theses on road infrastructure management and road...
CIMNE participates in the meeting of UNESCO Chairs to discuss the challenges of higher education. Cecilia Soriano, the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Numerical Methods host by the UPC and managed by CIMNE, is attending this meeting held in Cordoba....
CIMNE participates in the SuPreAM partnership. This is an EU-funded project to develop and improve the performance and capabilities of a predictive simulation model of finishing operations in steel Additive Manufacturing (AM). It integrates the influence of steels,...
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Carlos Moreira is a CIMNE researcher from Brazil. He holds a Master of Science in Structural Engineering with a focus on the development of nonlinear behaviour of cable-stayed bridges (2014) from the University of São Paulo and a PhD in Civil Engineering from...
We look forward to receiving your proposal and collaborating with you in this exciting research opportunity. We are looking for researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD. The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed...
Would you like to be part of a centre of excellence in numerical methods in engineering and develop your research career with the support of AGAUR? If so, we invite you to submit your application for the Joan Oró 2024 grants, which aim to promote the...
The researcher from the CENIT Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport at CIMNE, Samra Sarwar, has published the article "Analysis of superblocks during the transition phase from traditional vehicles to a fully automated vehicle environment: A case study of...
The Catalan research centres, in collaboration with the Government of Catalonia, gathered within the CERCA Institution, represent the fourth-largest research organization in terms of fundraising for Horizon Europe science during the calls for 2021 and 2022. With more...
LAIF is a predictive aquatic surveillance system that works using computer vision technology. It analyses different patterns of behaviour of people in an aquatic environment and should be able to detect behaviour compatible with drowning. Once detected, it will...
NextGEM, an EU project dedicated to promoting the safety of EMF-based telecommunication technologies, has been highlighted in a review in the Revista Española de Salud Pública regarding the synthesis of the report 'Trends in the incidence of brain...
On September 8th, 2023, a Japanese delegation from the Earth Disaster Intelligent System & Operational Network (EDiSON) initiative conducted a strategic visit to CIMNE. It was promoted by the Government of Catalonia, and particularly, by Ms. Mònica...
Fibregy, a pioneering European research project dedicated to revolutionizing offshore energy platforms through the utilization of Fibre-Reinforced Plastics (FRP), recently hosted another highly successful open-door industrial day. This event took place in La Ciotat...
By mid-July, the research consortium of the EU-funded project EN-TRACK announced the first public release of the energy efficiency platform. After two years of collaboration with partners and data collection from pilots in Spain and Bulgaria, EN-TRACK is now seeking...
LAIF is an acronym that stands for "A new concept based on computer vision techniques to save lives in drowning risk situations". This project is an innovative initiative aimed at saving lives in drowning risk situations using computer vision techniques. The...
From smart cities to the future of ports, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and CENIT are introducing three innovative micro-credentials on the digitalization of mobility. These flexible short courses are designed to help professionals acquire and improve...
We interviewed Xavier Tort Farrés, a newcomer researcher at CIMNE. This summer, he joined the team working on the SECCO2 project. He is a civil engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), where he is currently pursuing...
If you obtained your PHD between the 5th of October, 2016 and the 5th of October, 2021 this may interest you! The ”la Caixa” Foundation is offering 40 three-year postdoctoral fellowships for the recruitment of experienced researchers to carry out...
The article "A fully Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flows and fracturing solids" coauthored by CIMNE scientists Alejandro Cornejo, Alessandro Franci, Francisco Zárate and Eugenio Oñate has been awarded...
Last month the Turkish delegation comprised of EGO Executives, EGO staff and our project partner DAI Global Belgium SRL paid a study visit to Spain within the frame of “Smart Ankara Sustainable Urban Mobility Project (SUMP project)” which is financed by the European...
This January 2023, Genís Majoral and Sergi Saurí presented at the 102nd TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, a research entitled “Lessons from Reality on Automated Container Terminals: What Can Be Expected from Future Technological Developments.” The paper will be...
Figure: phases of the deployment of the recharging points infrastructure One of the main challenges currently facied by the road freight sector is the reduction of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions, while one of the strategies to address it comes from technological...
Participants in the Last Mile Distribution training Last February, CENIT organised, jointly with EIT UM, a training course on last mile distribution, sponsored by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) of Barcelona. The course provided an overview of last mile...
Figure 1: current functioning model of stations (the most common in European stations) Figure 2: SCP model CENIT is part of the consortium working on the HORIZON project RAIL4CITIES - Railway stations for green and socially-inclusive cities. Stations hold a unique...
As part of the Fatigue4Light project, the consortium partners from UNE Asociación Española de Normalización are organising a kick-off meeting for the CEN Workshop on for the development of a new standard on "Fatigue4Light advanced and fast fatigue...
The ERC’s 2024 Work Programme has been recently adopted by the European Commission. The plan includes a new call for Starting grants for early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work. Starting Grants may be awarded up...
Five of the proposals submitted by CIMNE to the "Generation of Knowledge 2022" received funding of 732,500 euros, representing a success rate of 45%. This call is cofunded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the State Research Agency, and...
CIMNE participates at Dedalus project, an EU-funded project with a partnership of 23 institutions and companies. Within the programme Horizon Europe (2021-2027), Dedalus will design, develop and demonstrate SSH-driven multi-value energy carrier-agnostic micro...
On 6-7 June 2023 the partners of the FIBRE4YARDS project met for the 5th General Assembly meeting at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland). With the project having entered its final straight, this opportunity for discussion and exchange was very welcome and will...
CIMNE scientific journals, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering and International Journal of Numerical Methods for Calculation and Design in Engineering (RIMNI), have improved their Impact Factor (IF) in 2022. This index, calculated by Clarivate, has been...
On July 8th 2023 Professor Yoichiro Matsumoto visited CIMNE accompanied of Ms. Kana Asano, Science and Technology Researcher from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Professor Matsumoto is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Science and...
CIMNE has signed a collaboration agreement with the Korean Railway Research Institute (KRRI) at the beginning of June. The signature took place at the premises of CIMNE in Barcelona and it will allow to collaborate on research to obtain origin-destination...
On 29th June, 2023, CIMNE received a visit from the Head of Innovation and Technology Transfer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), David Santos Llave. He participated in a meeting with the representatives of CIMNE's Tech Transfer Unit, which...
On 15th June, 2023, CIMNE community gathered in a technical session entitled “Computational Mechanics: Past and future at CIMNE and UPC”. The event hosted a tribute to Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of CIMNE and general director of the centre...
A publication co-authored by CIMNE researcher Fernando Salazar “CALA: Mejora de la seguridad hidrológica” (CALA: Improvement of the Hydrologic security) on the magazine Revista de Obras Públicas. The article explains the results of a...
The researcher and leader of Quality at CIMNE, Ignacio Valero, will participate at the VII Occupational Risk Prevention Congress. The event, organized by the ORP Fundation Peru, will be held on 5-6 July, 2023. It seeks to delve into the new milestones of prevention...
CIMNE has successfully approved its new strategic plan, outlining the roadmap for its future endeavours. It has been developed over the months September to December 2022 with inputs from CIMNE staff, key stakeholders from UPC and GENCAT and scientific input from the...
The CIMNE researcher Andrés Reyes has been awarded with the Cerdà Futur Award for his Master's thesis. 'Life cycle analysis of electric and hydrogen buses to improve decision making' is the title of the awarded work. Sergi Saurí,...
CIMNE has launched its Annual Report 2022, a publication where the centre explains its structure and activities. Every year, CIMNE edits a book divided in five sections which give an overview of the research activities carried out during the year: About CIMNE,...
Thanks to the call for Primera Experiència Professional en les Administracions Públiques (First Experiences in Public Administrations), we are announcing 4 new vacancies at CIMNE. These contracts are subsidised by the Employment Service of...
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The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) welcomes Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships applicants! The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to enhance the creative and innovative potential of postdoctoral researchers...
Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of CIMNE and current group leader of the Structural Mechanics research group of the centre, gave a talk this Wednesday 25th of May, 2023, for the Strategic Grouping of the Centre for Technological Innovation in Building and...
The International Association of CIMNE Classrooms (AIAC) has signed a collaboration agreement with the Leon Drinking Water and Sewerage System (SAPAL). The company, which offers drinking water, sanitation and use of treated water services to the municipality of Leon...
On May 5th, Christian Narváez successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Towards Computational Modeling of ElectroHydroDynamics in Microfluidics-based Manufacturing", an outstanding research on manufacturing technologies qualified as an Excellent (Cum Laude...
Gerard Laguna, from CIMNE Beegroup, won the best oral presentation at the International Conference on Energy Economics and Energy Policy (ICEEEP2023). The presentation was carried out in collaboration with Marta Chafer and Josep Mª Granollers, from the...
On 27th April, 2023, CIMNE attended the Kick-off meeting of X4HPC, a network coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and funded by the Government of Catalonia through AGAUR. X4HPC brings together the most representative scientific institutions,...
The PhD student Junior Ramírez has succesfully developed, under the direction of Fernando Rastellini and José Manuel González, a numerical simulation of SLB devices for the company SLB DEVICES S.L.. The work consisted...
CIMNE has recently renewed its Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), an advisory structure appointed by the Governing Council to provide CIMNE with scientific guidance and research excellence assurance. The SAC is composed by independent world leading scientists in the...
CIMNE scientists will be participating next April 28th, 2023, at the 7th International Conference on Energy Economics and Energy Policy (ICEEEP 2023), hosted by the Technical University of Catalonia. Gerard Laguna and Josep Mayós, both from Building, Energy...
The Group for the Dissemination of the H-Index in Spain [indice_h (grupodih.info)] has released their annual list of highly cited scientists in Spain in several fields. Among these, the following four CIMNE scientists lead the first positions in the ranking of...
On 10th April, prof. Enrique Romero, affiliated researcher at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE and full professor at UPC · BarcelonaTech, was invited to the sixth episode of International Technical Talks. It is an event promoted by the International Society for Soil...
On 28th March, Felipe Muñoz La Rivera successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Framework for an eXtended Reality (XR) solution for holistic safety management in construction", a groundbreaking research on XR for safety in construction...
The 2nd edition of Research.com has been published the ranking of the best scientists in the discipline of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. According this study, created using data consolidated from a wide range of data sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef,...
In March 2023, the BIGG project has completed its second year with a significant progress on the Standard Data Model for Buildings, which aligns and harmonises various data sources. The data model also ensures consistent input for the Analytics Toolbox. The objectives...
In 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, as part of the 2030 Agenda, the promise that everyone would have safely managed water and sanitation by 2030. "The latest data show that governments must work on average four times faster to meet...
SEMNI has announced the winners of the latest edition of its awards. Xavier Oliver, leader of the CIMNE research group Computational Design & Analysis of Engineering Metamaterials has been awarded with the SEMNI O. C. Zienkiewicz Award, which recognizes its high...
CIMNE publishes the System and Prioritization Criteria of the requests for the Joan Oró Grants. This call is funded by the European Social Fund and managed by AGAUR. It is focused on the recruitment of pre-doctoral researchers (FI) for the Year 2023....
On the 27th of March 2023 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, a new edition of a Stakeholder Forum on data treatment will go through the process carried out within the ePLANET project to gather, harmonize, and store data focusing on the challenges and benefits of using...
On Women's Day, we take a tour of some of the cultural, protest and scientific events that seem interesting to us to experience this celebration. We will also stop to see some figures. To do this, we suggest you consult some classic sources, which provide us with...
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On occasion of the World Engineering Day, we interviewed the CIMNE researcher Jaime Martí Herrero. Member of CIMNE Beegroup since 2008, he is a doctor in Physical Sciences. In 2009, he began to develop research, development and implementation projects in...
On 4th March World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development is celebrated. This Day, proclaimed by UNESCO in 2020, is a part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its purpose is to present engineering and technology projects that allow the goals set within the...
CIMNE has participated at “Transfiere 2023” held in Malaga during last week. The 12th edition of this European Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation has closed with the participation of more than 4,300 professional visitors who have had the...
CIMNE has just launched a new issue of its Newsletter. The publication collects the latest news from the researcher centre on computational mechanics. Check out the table of contents: 11F Agenda - Women & Girls in Science 2023 The Interview - Fabiola Cavaliere:...
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) has just opened the call for applications to Beatriu de Pinós Grants and CIMNE is looking for applicants to hire postdocs researchers. The application period to present candidates is open until...
Every year, on 11 February, takes place the International Day of Women & Girls in Science. This year, the global edition of the Day promoted by the United Nations arrives to its 8th edition with the theme "Bringing communities Forward for sustainable and equitable...
Recently, Fabiola Cavaliere has been awarded with a Pioner Award by CERCA institution in recognition of her PhD thesis, which was co-directed by the leader of the Credible data-driven models research group at CIMNE, Pedro Díez, jointly Rubén Sevilla...
In January 2023, the ICREA research professor Ivan Markovsky joined the Credible Data-driven Models group of CIMNE. His expertise is in structured low-rank approximation and completion, direct data-driven methods and system identification. He obtained PhD in...
The round robin test (simultaneous analysis of the same problem) is a method to investigate the variance and sensitivity of the results provided by different analysts for a given problem. This methodology was first applied to the evaluation of the performance of the...
Mr. Ferran Falcó has been recently appointed as the new Vice-President of CIMNE. He will replace Professor Eugenio Oñate in this position that he held since the start-up of CIMNE in 1987. This appointment completes the reorganization of the top managing...
The Goverment of Catalonia, through the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR, according its acronym in catalan), has granted the 100% of the proposals requested by CIMNE in the call SGR-Cat 2021. They consist in grant for support the...
CIMNE researchers published 166 papers in journals in 2022. It represents an increase of 23% comparing with 2021 and a 30% more, if the average of the last five years is taken into account. The list of the papers is available on the Research section of CIMNE’s...
On November 17, 2022, the CIMNE Severo Ochoa Mobility Program was published, with closing date December 16, 2022. The objective of the Program is to foster research collaborations of CIMNE researchers with partner institutions, promoting the sharing of expertise and...
The CIMNE repository on Google Scholar (so-called CIMNE Scholar) has closed 2022 with nearly 110,000 total citations and 8,806 annual citations, which represents a slight increase in comparison with the 8,730 registered in 2021. In this way, the upward trend that...
Fabiola Cavaliere has awarded with a Pioner Award by CERCA institution in recognition of her PhD thesis titled "Static and dynamic global stiffness analysis for automotive pre-design". Cavaliere's PhD thesis was co-directed by the leader of the Credible...
The call for applications to FPI aids to predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Agency State of Research is now open. There are two type of aids, one linked to Severo Ochoa Centers of...
The CIMNE researcher Pere-Andreu Ubach participated on 22th December, 2022, at the podcast titled "Arran del mar" (At sea level) by Canal Blau TV (Xarxa de Comunicació Local). During his intervention, he was interviewed about engineering solutions to avoid the...
On 18 December, KRO-NCRV, a public television and radio organization in the Netherlands, broadcasted the investigation documentary about the Brumadinho dam failure titled "The deadly dam burst" via Pointer, a new digital platform for acclaimed Dutch data...
In November, Cenit was delighted to continue our collaboration with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) by welcoming the Singapore delegation here to Barcelona. We enjoyed an action-packed week which included a visit to see Barcelona’s famous superblocks and a ride...
In October, CENIT-CIMNE was in charge of the organisation of the 2nd Conference on Fire Safety at Sea #CFIS2022 held at the European Maritime Safety Agency premises in Lisbon, Portugal. It was a successful, enjoyable conference which counted on over 150 attendees in a...
In November, Cenit were delighted to have their first stand at the Smart City Expo World Congress. We had unparalleled opportunities for networking and promoting our research and lots of fascinating visits and meetings at our stand. We are working through and...
El CENIT y el EIT de Urban Mobility organizan un curso sobre Distribución de Última Milla. Durante cuatro sesiones se expondrán los principales problemas de la logística urbana, especialmente el reparto de la última milla, posibles soluciones y el modo más adecuado de...
Barcelona City Council and CENIT-CIMNE are working on the Kids First (K1) Project, which is co-funded by EIT Urban Mobility. Check out the ongoing work in Barcelona for making the city sustainable for kids. Barcelona City Council is currently undergoing the execution...
The Building, Energy and Environment Group of CIMNE (CIMNE-Beegroup) has just moved to the Lleida Agro-Food Science and Technology Park. This is one of the main scientific and technological platforms in the agri-food and ICT sector at the Catalan and national level....
OKTICS, a CIMNE spin-off, has closed this week an agreement with Faca Packaging. This partnership will take the technology developed by OKTICS to explore its different applications within the cosmetic packaging sector. From left to right: Jesús Beneyto...
CIMNE Winter School will take all its participants on an excursion into Computational Methods during the last week of January 2023: from the 23rd to the 27th. This is the second edition [check out the sum up of the first edition] of this five days course where the...
The ERC Council has opened a new call for Advanced and Consolidator grants for senior researchers. There are two different calls with different budgets, but both of them for a period of 5 years. Candidates for Advanced grant are called Principal...
From 5th to 8th December, 2022, Budapest hosted the SESAR Innovation Days (SIDs), which gathered 400 of Europe’s leading researchers in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) and aviation domains. Raúl Saez (right) receiving the prize from Andreas Boschen,...
The group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, CENIT, takes part in the EU-funded project K1 (Kids First). Within the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) programme, the K1 (Kids First) address the task of rethink one of the most crucial...
A new CIMNE desalination pilot plant arrives at the MtePack warehouse, where the electrical connection of its equipment will be made. The entire installation has been assembled by AMB ELECTRONICA. Process design, core distillation columns construction and automation...
Inergy is a CIMNE spin-off focused on digitization in the field of energy management. The company has celebrated its 10th anniversary these days with a party that has served as the setting for the recording of a commemorative video. The event was attended by, among...
The director of CIMNE, Professor Javier Bonet, has been awarded the last edition of the IACM O.C. Zienkiewicz Award. This is a recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of computational mechanics. The IACM O.C....
Last friday 25th November, 2022, CIMNE participated in the TECNOEXPO Viladecans. The centre was present at different demonstration and innovation project presentation spaces. This event was mainly addressed to municipalities, companies of the territory and its...
On 23rd November, 2022, were delivered the Special Doctoral Awards 2022, corresponding to the 2019/2020 Academic year. CIMNE researchers Alejandro Cornejo and David Roca have been awarded in this edition of this recognition promoted by the Doctorate School of the...
The Goverment of Catalonia, through the Management Agency for University and Research Grants (AGAUR), has published the call with the requirements for the applications to the call "Joan Oró grants for hiring pre-doctoral research staff in training (FI...
From 9 to 10 November 2022, the premises of Deltares in Delft (The Netherlands) hosted a new edition of the Kratos Multiphysics Workshop. The event was held within the Delft Software Days. Deltares was the venue for more than 60 users and developers of...
CIMNE joins a manifiesto by the global health and research community in support of the iranian women. Entitled "Statement on women's rights in Iran", the text, promoted by ISGlobal, urges to the elimination of the violence against women. ...
The calls for applications to the Ramón y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva grants, both financed by the Spanish Government through the State Research Agency, has just been published. The Ramón y Cajal grants are intended to promote the incorporation of...
Professor Antonio Gens, member of the Geomechanics group of CIMNE, has been elected president by the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Professor Antonio Gens will be president for the period 2022-2026 after an...
The CIMNE researcher Sergio Idelsohn has been awarded the International AMCA Award 2022 by the Argentine Association of Computer Mechanics in recognition of his international career. Idelsohn has received the award in the framework of the 38th...
From 14 to 17 November, the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA 2022) was taken in Lisbon. This is the largest European research and technology conference in transport and mobility. The theme of this edition was “Moving together –reimagining mobility...
On 17th November, 2022, the STEM Women Congress 2022 will take place in Barcelona. The venue will be at CosmoCaixa Barcelona. The mission of this event is the visualization and the promotion of the women talent in the field of STEM and this is its fourth edition. A...
CIMNE researchers have been awarded at the 61st Congress in Naval and Maritime Engineering held in Palma de Mallorca from 26th to 28th October, 2022. Borja Serván-Camas and Miguel Calpe, from Naval and Maritime Group of CIMNE, are co-authors of the content of...
CIMNE has just launched a new issue of its Newsletter which sums-up part of the activity of the research centre. The content of the 9th issue of this comms tool is listed below: News: Five new projects in ecological transition funded by the Spanish Government...
The Ministry of Science and Innovation has just opened the call "Consolidación Investigadora" (Research consolidation). The objective of this call is to consolidate the professional career of researchers, national and foreign, so that they can develop their...
CIMNE takes part as a host organization in the Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowships Programme - Incoming, which has opened its call for applications on 3rd November, 2022. The centre is offering four PhD positions through its programme within the panel entitled "Physical...
CIMNE is taking part in the event “Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures” which is gathering the members of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme to celebrate its 30th anniversary in the premises of the UNESCO at Paris from 3rd to 4th...
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We interview María Juliana Knobelsdorf. She is a Civil Engineer with a doctorate in Civil Engineering by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), and a postdoc of the 'Torres Quevedo' program (2007-2008) of the Ministry of Science and...
CENIT, CIMNE's Innovation Unit in Transport, has launched the first issue of its annual magazine, bringing together cutting-edge research and analysis on the transport challenges shaping our world. The publication reflects the breadth of work underway across the unit,...
Recently, Advanced Factories, the largest congress on industry 4.0 which will take place in April 2023 in Barcelona, has shared in its social networks an interview to Sergi Saurí, the leader of CENIT, the group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE....
From 21 to 30 November 2022, CENIT, the group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, will give a training a course about the distribution of the last mille. The distribution of the last mile is one of the main problems of cities. This course offers to the...
OCEAN is the acronym of Operator-Centered Enhancement of Awareness in Navigation, an European-funded project coordinated by HVL, the Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences. It has just started at the beginning of this month and CIMNE researcher Francisco...
The regular assessment of the activity and operation of a system is essential when drawing up and implementing policies based on strategic planning. As a CERCA Centre, CIMNE has to undergo periodically an evaluation by this organization, to ensure that achieve the...
CIMNE has recently joined the Efficient Energy Cluster of Catalonia as a Silver member. In this way, the centre has become part of the entity, following in the steps of its spin-offs Inergy and Beedata. 🟢 Avui donem la benvinguda a 2 nous socis del @clusterEE! ✔️...
09/09/22 Researcher: Samra Sarwar Location: European Transport Conference (ETC) Milan, Italy Title: Optimal Dynamic Tolls for Commuting During Transition Phase from Manual Car to Fully Autonomous Vehicle Environment. 15/09/22 Researcher: Francisco Rodero Location:...
European multidisciplinary consortium receives EU funding to increase navigational safety The OCEAN project is focused on enhancing operator awareness in navigation, to reduce the frequency of severe accidents like collision and grounding, to mitigate...
Ongoing research at CENIT is heading toward analyzing future cities incorporating tactical urbanism with a superblock model approach. The elevated dependency on cars for mobility, consequent environmental pollution due to emissions and reduction of public spaces are...
The capacity of the container ship fleet is growing for the first time in many years. What do these new vessels look like? Will they continue to break capacity records? Are they more sustainable? We look at trends based on new vessel orders by the major shipping...
The specialized blog in energy efficiency, ESEficiencia, has recently published an article about EN-TRACK, an EU-funded project coordinated by CIMNE in consortium with the Government of Catalonia (Department of Territory and Sustainability) and the Catalan Institute...
Yesterday, October 6th, 2022, the interim resolution of the call “Strategic projects aimed at the ecological transition and the digital transition 2021” was published by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the Research State Agency. In this...
The 50th European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) closed its doors on 22th September 2022. This event, the biggest in Europe focused on engineering education, was hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC). The SEFI...
CIMNE has just launched the Virtual Lab program which simulates an universal press in a very friendly and intuitive graphical environment based on GiD and in which the user can perform destructive compression, traction, shear and bending tests with normalized or...
According an UNESCO resolution, on 11th February the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated. This Day wants to recognize the critical role played by women and girls in science and technology. Coinciding with the celebration,...
It is about to open (expected to be launched in October 2022) the call for applications to FPI, aids to predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Agency State of Research. There are two type...
On 18th August, 2022, Prof. Eugenio Oñate was elected as Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Prof. Oñate is a professor at Civil Engineering School of Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) and founder and vicepresident...
The researchers of the CENIT - Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport are participating these days in different forums of transport. Their intense activity can be followed from the social networks of the group. In this article we summarize some of...
CIMNE scientists Pavel Ryzhakov, Julio Martí and Mohammad Reza Hashemi have been on charge of the edition of an special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering about coupled CFD problems. The issue is entitled "Advances in Numerical Modeling of...
GID Simulation, the pre and post processing software for numerical simulation, has recently published in its social networks a new video about a concrete dam fracture simulation. The video shows the deformation of the dam using contour lines. Watch more simulation...
National Geographic Spain has published an interesting article about how to produce graphene from recycled plastic. According the article, plastic waste from cars could have a second useful life in the form of graphene thanks to the development of a new recycling...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications will be on 14th September. The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) welcomes applications for this call until a week before the deadline (7th September). Our current Hosting Offers involve these...
In September everything returns to normal and, with the start of the new academic year, CIMNE also begins to work in new projects. On 1st September will start the six new project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation within the State Plan (2021-2023) and...
On 7th September, 2022, CIMNE-Beegroup will be partipating at the "Learnings from across the EU: Smart Meter Rollup", a workshop which aims to promote and disseminate learnings about the pros and cons of various approaches to rolling out smart meters across the EU,...
This summer four CIMNE's PhD students have defended their PhD theses within different PhD programmes. The first one was Alberto Tena, who presented Automated disease detection by machine learning and bio-sound analysis on 3rd June, 2022, within the framework of...
CIMNE is the coordinator of the ProdPhD, an EU-funded project which aims to create social network tools and procedures for developing entrepreneurial skills in PhD programmes. Started in 2021, this two-year project delivers and demonstrates through different pilot...
Recently, Fatigue4Light project has started different cooperation and collaboration activities with projects working on the development of solutions to promote a more sustainable and greener mobility and Electric Vehicles construction, based on eco-design and...
Professor Joan Baiges, member of the Fluid Mechanics group of CIMNE, has been awarded with the ECCOMAS Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz. This is a recognition for young researchers for their contributions in the field of computational engineering. ECCOMAS has just announced...
At the end of May 2022 has finished the EKATE project, an EU-funded project by ERDF funds within the Interreg POCTEFA programme coordinated by ESTIA. CIMNE has participated in this project which consisted in the investigation for the management of Photovoltaic...
The Technical University of Catalonia (UPC BarcelonaTech) continues being one of the top 100 worldwide universities in Technology and Instrumental Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics and Civil Engineering. In addition, it leads the state panorama in two...
While emerging wireless technologies that use radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) are vital for the European way of life, particularly in telecommunications, there is an increasing consideration of their possible adverse effects on human health and the...
On the 14th June of 2022, two researchers from CIMNE, Pere-Andreu Ubach and Fernando Hermosilla, attended a workshop at the European Parliament in Brussels. The workshop had the title: "La defensa de los grandes deltas europeos: el Ebro, degradación y...
CIMNE has approved the renewal of its Equality Plan for the period 2022-2026. This is the second Equality plan promoted by CIMNE with objetive of guarantee full gender equality opportunities and ensure that any person in the centre is valued based on their profile and...
The Government of Catalonia has awarded to the CIMNE researcher Xavier Oliver with the Narcís Monturiol Medal. The government has published the resolution of these awards which recognize the scientific and technological merit of ten researchers of the knowledge...
The journal Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (ARCO) owned by CIMNE and published by Springer has reached an Impact Factor (IF) in 2021 of 8.171. The five year Impact Factor is IF=8.967. The new Impact Factor is a considerable increase of the 2020 value...
On 10th June, 2022, was taken place a Lab Meeting of the project PECT InnoDelta. It is a territorial specialization and competitiveness project financed by the Government of Catalonia and the European Commission through FEDER funds. Its mission is to create a...
The new director of CIMNE, Javier Bonet, has presented himself to the CIMNE community in an event held on the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC BarcelonaTech), where the centre has its main premises. The conference room of the School of Engineering in Barcelona,...
CIMNE has just launched its Annual Report, a publication where the centre explains its structure and activities. Every year, CIMNE edits a book structured in five section to give and overview of the research activities carried out during the year and show how the...
Abstract The revolution towards the port of the future is going to change the long-term Port Business Ecosystem (PBE). The objective of this paper is to analyse how current trends might have implications for the future PBE. For this purpose, the research uses the...
The researcher Samra Sarwar from CENIT, the group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, will be presenting her work at the European Transport Conference 2022 that will take place in Milan (Italy). Sarwar will participate in the area of Transport, Economics,...
The Hubs for Last Mile Delivery Solutions activity aim to alleviate local environmental and traffic problems in urban areas through the creation of shared urban consolidation and distribution centres (UCDC), on the borders of the LEZ implemented in AMB. During the...
In April, Cenit signed a research collaboration agreement with the Center for Liveable Cities of Singapore and Casa Asia. It provides a great opportunity to share experiences between Barcelona and Singapore in the field of mobility. TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY...
Check out the infographic on Africa Marrero to celebrate the International Women in Maritime Day. Africa infografic Word for newsletter.docx Africa Marrero Ports and Maritime Researcher at Cenit
Prof. Enrique Romero, director of research (UPC·BarcelonaTech) and affiliated researcher (full research professor) at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE, was State-of-the-Art Lecturer "Advances in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics" jointly with Prof. Nasser Khalili (Scientia...
From 25 to 27th May, 2022, the Second International CIMNE Classroom Symposium was held online. More than 50 researchers from seven different countries participated in the Symposium: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Chile and Guatemala, represented by the...
On May 19th, the results of the HAMELIN project were presented in Port-Vendres, a town in the Languedoc-Roussillon region (France). HAMELIN is the acronym for ‘Tools to adapt and improve the management of insect pests’. This project (EFA335/19) is...
Fatigue4Light is an European Commission-funded project which aims to boost the use of lightweight materials in Electric Vehicles' chassis. The project will apply new materials tailored to the requirements of vehicle chassis, such as advanced high-strength steels,...
Professor Antonio Gens has delivered the Terzaghi Oration at the 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering held in Sydney (Australia). The Terzaghi Oration is the preeminent lecture of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and...
Professor Javier Bonet has started on May 16th as the new General Director of CIMNE. He joins CIMNE taking over from Professor Eugenio Oñate, CIMNE’s founding director and current Vice-president of the Governing Council. “It is a great honour, but...
Escribo estas líneas con gran pesar, al haber recibido la triste noticia del fallecimiento de Francisca García-Sicilia la mañana del 18 de mayo. En el momento de su muerte estaba acompañada de sus dos hijos Chincho y Yosco, de sus nietos y...
Authorities visit to the pilot plant On 6th March, 2022, the president of Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez, has visited the Canary Ocean Platform (PLOCAN) located at Telde (Gran Canaria). Among other projects, he has visited the...
CIMNE's PostDoc Advisory Unit Severo Ochoa is organizing today a workshop with 20 CIMNE postdocs at the main premises of CIMNE at the UPC North Campus. The objectives are create community and to have a glimpse of postdocs' work. The event consists on a...
The CIMNE webpage on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) has been updated. The page contains detailed descriptions of theory and applications of the PFEM, an updated bibliographic review of the method and new multimedia content! Please, visit the new PFEM...
A new course on Demand Modeling Traditional transport demand models; 4 stage models, have evolved from trip-based to tour-based to activity-based models. Activity-based models assume that a person’s need to travel is based on what activities they are involved in. The...
According to the Institute for Mobility Research in Berlin (IFMO), 18- to 30-year-olds have no interest in owning a car, due to a greater regard for the environment as well as a shift in needs and priorities. Public transport, carsharing services and UBER are the...
Do you ever wonder how your smartwatch or smartphone can differentiate between walking and jogging while tracking your exercise routine? This aspect is known as Human Activity Recognition (HAR) and is based on the analysis of various sensors’ data including GPS,...
Inergy, spin-off company of CIMNE, has been the awardee of the tender called by the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN) for the contracting of the Information and Validation Service for the Government of Catalonia’s energy bills (SIME). The service includes the...
CIMNE, centre belonging to CERCA system, has recently updated its profile at the Research Portal of Catalonia (PRC). This site is an initiative of the General Directorate of Research of the Secretariat of Universities and Research of the Generalitat de Catalunya...
On December 14th, 2021, CIMNE HR department organized a welcome session for new PhD at CIMNE. During the day, the attendees received information about new HR initiatives, specially in the training field. Content of the session: Welcome at CIMNE: organizational chart,...
Cool Steam is is a desalination technology developed by the ICT-Natura department of CIMNE together with Fresh Water Nature spin-off. It is being tested on pilot scale at different field sites in order to evaluate its viability to produce affordable...
Photo: Peregrina Quintela, President of the PET MSO-ED and Jordi Jiménez, Director of Technology Transfer and Innovation at CIMNE On 16 March was launched the hub of modelization, simulation and optimization technologies in a digital environment (hub MSO-ED)....
CIMNE participates in the ViladeHack Tourism, an event which will take place from 25 to 27 March 2022. Organized by the Viladecans City Council through the business hub Viladecans Innovation Company (VIE, according its acronym in Spanish), it expects to promote...
Professor Xavier Sànchez-Vila, leader of the Hydrogeology Research Group of CIMNE and Director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Technical University of Catalonia, has been ranked in the 50th position of the Forbes list of the top 50...
In 2019, resolution from the UNESCO proclaimed March 14th of each year as International Mathematics Day. In many countries, March 14th has already been celebrated as Pi Day, so the UNESCO resolution consolidates the current recognition of mathematics for its important...
Prof. Eugenio Oñate during his speech at CERCA meeting WORDS BY EUGENIO OÑATE, DIRECTOR OF CIMNE, AT THE MEETING OF THE INSTITUTION OF RESEARCH CENTRES OF CATALONIA (CERCA) ON MARCH 11, 2022 Dear colleagues, The first item on the Agenda for today's...
On the occassion of the International Women's Day, CIMNE has launched an Special Newsletter where you can find figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE, according its acronym in Spanish) collected. Them gives us some knowledge about the...
A commission chaired by the president of SEMNI Elías Cueto has unanimously deliberated that the Best Thesis of the Year 2021 is the one defended by David Codony. Currently Severo Ochoa Post Doc Trainee at the Mechanics of Electroactive Materials research team,...
Fibregy is an ambitious European innovation project that will enable the extensive use of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) for the next generation of offshore and wind turbine platforms. Led by CIMNE, the Fibregy consortium is working on the development of new...
On 15th February 2022, Professor Antonio Gens has been appointed as a honorary member by the management board of the Spanish Rock Mechanics Society (SEMR, according its acronym in Spanish). Professor Antonio Gens is a Professor of Soil and Rocks Mechanics of the...
The ExaQUte Project is a European H2020 research project coordinated by CIMNE, that spanned from June 2018 to November 2021. The institutions involved in the project include: BSC, TUM, INRIA, VSB-TUO, EPFL, UPC and STR. The main objective of the ExaQUte project...
Prof. Enrique Romero, director of research (UPC·BarcelonaTech) and affiliated researcher (full research professor) at Geomechanics Group of CIMNE, was elected as the new Chair of TC106, the Technical Committee on Unsaturated Soils of the International Society...
With the goal of monitoring chronic diseases, CIMNE participates in an investigation that proposes using the mobile phone as a kind of spirometer. Alberto Tena, member of CIMNE ICT group, is the principal investigator of this project at the centre. Funded by the...
CIMNE wants to guarantee full gender equality opportunities and ensure that any person in the centre is valued based on their profile and professional performance without distinction of gender, age, race, belief or personal or circumstantial variables. To ensure that,...
Benedetto Grillone, member of the Building, Energy and Environment Group (BEEgroup) of CIMNE has participated on 17 February in the "Transfiere" Forum held in Málaga (Spain). The event, which arrives to its eleventh edition, is an European Meeting on Science,...
Recently, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of the Spanish Government has awarded the SME Innovation Seal to the CIMNE spin-off Inergy. This initiative was born to promote proposals with which to improve business growth and, specifically,...
During the last week of January, CIMNE gathered 86 students in the CIMNE Winter School, a five-day course addressed to give a first glance at some basic aspects on computational methods and some interdisciplinary disciplines. The course of 25,5 hours of duration...
Alejandro Cornejo is a postdoctoral researcher at Structural Mechanics group of CIMNE. His research is focused on the improvement of the FEM-DEM methodology for Fluid-Solid Interaction applied to industrial processes. But, in addition to being a researcher, Alejandro...
The NextSim project ( CODA: Next Generation of Industrial Aerodynamic Simulation Code), funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and supported by the research and innovation programmes of Spain, France and Germany, is working to develop the...
KYKLOS 4.0 is an European-funded project within the Horizon 2020 programme which aims to develop an innovative Circular Manufacturing ecosystem based on a novel Circular Production System (CPS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technologies. Through this project,...
Con gran pesar escribo estas líneas con motivo del fallecimiento del profesor Benjamín Suárez Arroyo en la madrugada del lunes 24 de enero de 2022. Decía Aristóteles que de todos los regalos, el más valioso es un buen amigo. Y...
CIMNE has registered 8.136 citations in Google Scholar in 2021. This figure represents a 12 percent more than in 2020, a higher increase compared to the 2019/2020 period, in which publications grew by 4,8%. As of January 19, 2022, the account accumulates 93,615 total...
Dr. Abel Coll playing the piano Hospitals are a place where emotions are at their peak and where music can help channel them in the best possible way. Pianos Vius collaborates with hospitals by providing them with a piano and / or filling them with music thanks to the...
CIMNE has presented a gallery of images to have a look at the activity of the research centre in 2021. Reviewing the year, we have to regret the loss of two researchers linked to CIMNE: José Santos López and Manuel Casteleiro. However, in 2021 there were...
Air pollution has been described as the ‘new tobacco’ by the head of the World Health Organization. In fact over 90% of the world’s population suffers toxic air and research is increasingly revealing the profound impacts on the health of people, especially children....
Crowd management has taken on a renewed importance in our cities following the outbreak of Covid-19 in autumn 2019. Along with important economic and social changes we have also seen our mobility and safety in urban spaces compromised. City Councils are required to...
In 1966, the first container liner service from the US to the Dutch city of Rotterdam started and with it we witnessed the birth of international container shipping. The ensuing success of containerization not only changed the face of shipping, but also...
In October, the fishing sector gathered in Asturias (Spain) to celebrate a Day of research and development organized by the Phillipe Cousteau Foundation. The general director for fishing of the Asturian Government, Francisco González, reflected on the...
In its approach to became an smart city, Sant Vicenç dels Horts City Council has signed a framework agreement with CIMNE. The research and development centre in computational engineering has been the technological partner chosen by this municipality to carry...
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Ceremony for presenting Professor Eugenio Oñate with a diploma and the mantle of the Honorary Doctor in Sciences of SPbPU On November 17th, 2021, the Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) presented the Honorary Degree of Doctor of...
CNN has dedicated today a comprehensive article to the hangar installed by CIMNE's spin-off, Buildair at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia in 2019. The facility is the largest hagar in the world and is dedicated to...
The Government of Navarra has expanded the SIE energy accounting system implemented since 2019 to know in detail the energy performance of all the buildings that constitute its public heritage. It has now signed a new multi-year service contract, by which it...
CIMNE organizes a seminar on November 12th in the framework of Science Week 2021. Framed within the thematic area "International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development", the centre will hold a talk on how the study of Mesoscale marine variability in the...
Tras congregar a más de 5000 directivos y profesionales del sector en su versión online en 2020, el Congreso de Innovación Logística se ha consolidado como el punto de encuentro de conocimiento y foro de networking de referencia en España y Latinoamérica. En 2021, y...
On January 25, 2019, a mining waste dam of the company Vale SA suddenly collapsed, generating a tsunami of millions of cubic meters of water and toxic mud over the region. It is the biggest environmental disaster in the history of Brazil and 270 people lost their...
The consultancy financed by the Inter-American Development Bank for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago has been successfully delivered by CENIT and fellow research partners; CPCS Canada and Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland.With...
The Port of Barcelona signs agreement with CENIT and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) to finance 3 PhD positions.The agreement is signed as the Port of Barcelona looks to continue to develop research themes that are critical to the definition of the Port´s...
CENIT joins an international consortium of 46 partners led by the Port of Antwerp to form a leading voice on the Greening of European Ports. The PIONEERS consortium has been awarded a 25 million euro grant from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme. CENIT...
Alberto Tena, member of the research team of the Information and Communication Technologies group of CIMNE, has just published an article in the journal Biomedical Signal Processing and Control titled "Automated detection of COVID-19 cough". This article,...
Josep Monràs, president of the RIVUS Foundation, Braulio Moreno, president of the Giswater Association, and Ernest Bladé, director of the Flumen Institute, in representation of the CIMNE, have signed at the headquarters of the Foundation. The agreement...
The European ePLANET project will use the most innovative tools in artificial intelligence and big data to leverage and exploit energy data from public buildings in order to obtain empirical results on the implementation of energy efficiency measures. One of the main...
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS 2021) was held at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) on September 7-9th 2021. The COMPLAS conference series started in 1987 and since then have taken place in UPC on...
The spin-off of CIMNE specialized in inflatable structures, Buildair, will celebrate an open door event next week: Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will take place in the offices of the company in Molins de Rei (Barcelona). The visitor...
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New publications co-authored by CIMNE scientists has recently been published in different international scientific journals [check them on Google Scholar]. The article titled “A data-driven methodology for enhanced measurement and verification of energy...
CIMNE has designed, developed and built, in cooperation with its spin-off Fresh Water Nature, SL (FWN), its first portable desalination pilot plant, based on its patented vacuum distillation technology. The CIMNE and FWN technical team started up the pilot plant...
Dr. Aleix Pons has successfully defended his thesis on Second-best pricing schemes for Transport InfrastructureDr. Pons worked on the CENIT transport economics and policy research team from 2014 to 2018 before moving to London to continue his career. During his time...
Diagram of hydrogen distribution stations for use in mobility: hydrogen and hydrolines. Source: www.energetica21.comCENIT reviews Hydrogen as an alternative technology and prepares a practical guide for public transport implementationWe are all agreed on the need to...
CENIT heads up innovative pilots to create foundations for a fossil-fuel free transportation zone business model for small businessesThe post-pandemic growth of e-commerce has raised concerns about the viability of small businesses being able to survive in a...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has launched a call for applications for the position of Director General of the centre. This is part of a plan proposed by Professor Eugenio Oñate (the current director and...
Recently, the Gàvius project has launched its first newsletter. Gàvius is an innovative project of the local administration to create a virtual assistant by using of artificial intelligence to able to communicate, process and grant citizens the social...
The Building Energy and Environment Group at CIMNE has developed BeePV, a tool to allow the massive prospection and optimisation of PV solar systems. The differential factor is the integration of the hourly electricity consumption profile of each client, providing...
Recently, CIMNE scientists Rafael Morán and Javier San Mauro has participated in the publication titled "Hydrodynamic Performance and Design Evolution of Wedge-Shaped Blocks for Dam Protection against Overtopping" in the open access magazine Water, within...
The Centre for Technological and Industrial Development (CDTI), a Public Business Entity answering to the Ministry of Science and Innovation, will support Inergy, a CIMNE spin-off, to develop the tool SIEPro. Inergy has been one of the beneficiaries of a call for...
The CIMNE researcher and group leader of Bio-Medical Engineering, Eduardo Soudah, has recently been awarded the National Award 2020 by the Cuban Academy of Sciences. This award is thanks to the collaborative work “Mathematical modelling for problem-solving of...
Fatigue4Light aims to develop lightweight solutions adapted to the chassis parts of Electric Vehicles to enhance weight reduction compared to current solutions and increase vehicles’ safety due to reduced sprung mass. Solutions will be based on...
On 29th June 2021 the CIMNE researcher David J. Vicente will give a talk in an event organized by the Professional Council of Surveyors, Engineers and Related Professions of Argentina (COPAIPA). The presentation will be about one of the research lines developed by the...
The new report launched by the project LASH FIRE is titled "Study and analysis of regulations, accident investigations and stakeholders for bridge alarm panel design". Based on results from the Firesafe II and SEBRA projects, one area of fire-safety related design...
On June 9 2021, RIS3CAT Community Industries for Future (IdF, according to its acronym in Catalan) held its closing session at the AC Hotels in Barcelona. The community has constituted a pole of innovation in efficient and sustainable manufacturing, hosting the...
The CIMNE Multimedia Channel on Youtube has recently reached 2,000 subscribers. The repository, which has about four hundred videos, is distributed in different playlists to explain the wide activity of the CIMNE in terms of research and projects, technology...
CIMNE researchers Santiago Badia, Jerrad Hampton and Javier Príncipe from the Large Scale Scientific Computing group have recently published the paper "Embedded multilevel monte carlo for uncertainty quantification in random domains" in the american...
The incorporation of the following researchers has been carried out through contracts financed with ref. CEX2018-000797-S / Severo Ochoa Centers of Excellence program, funded by the State Research Agency. Guillermo Casas Position: Severo Ochoa PostDoc Trainee Position...
Fibre4yards is a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 that gathers 13 partner organisations from six European countries -CIMNE (coordinator), SAS L-UP, TSI, TUL, INEGI, NAVAL Group, COMPASSIS, Curve Works, IRURENA, 10XL, Innov Ateknea, Bureau...
Francisco Rodero, Lead on Intelligent Transport Systems at CENIT, heads up a training session on mobility modelling during this coming month of June and July hosted by the Professional Association of Col.legi de Camins. Francisco will be sharing his expert knowledge...
The post analysis of the recent blocking of the Suez Canal during six days following the grounding of the 20,000 TEU container ship Ever Given continues with CENIT´s Javier Garrido being quoted in April´s edition of Mar. The full article runs from page 6, with Javier...
CIMNE has launched its Annual Report 2020. The activity report of the centre is available on the website http://annualreport2020.cimne.com, which can also be downloaded in PDF format. The document explains research and dissemination activities carried out by...
CENIT is delighted to announce that our PIONEERS consortium led by the Port of Antwerp has been awarded a 25 million euro grant from European Commission´s Horizon 2020 programme. CENIT will be working alongside other leading international think-tanks, ports, terminal-...
A new developer and official version of the software GiD for pre and post processing has been released for all platforms. The latest developer version GiD15.1.1d is ready to download...
CENIT is in the news with Director Sergi Saurí being interviewed on Good Morning Europe on the continued debate surrounding the Government's plans to introduce pay per use tolls on all public highways by 2024. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAxFCu8_JbY
eFlows4HPC is now an affiliated project of the HiPEAC network. eFlows4HPC aims to deliver a workflow software stack and an additional set of services to enable the integration of HPC simulations and modelling with big data analytics and machine learning in scientific...
The Fatigue4Light project has just launched its website: https://fatigue4light.eu/ Boosting the use of lightweight materials in Electric Vehicles' chassis through new tests and computer simulation methodologies for electric vehicle chassis weight...
The study on the detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) through the voice carried out by CIMNE researcher Alberto Tena has captured the interest of the media and social networks. The research is based on the analysis of the voice with artificial intelligence...
On April 24th, 2021, GiD participated in the Seminar on computational tools and numerical methods for engineering problems, organized by Centre for Advanced Engineering, Research and Development (CIAID). The research Engineer at CIMNE and GiD developer Enrique...
NextSim, CODA: Next generation of industrial aerodynamic simulation code represents a combined research effort focusing on algorithms and HPC is the only way to make possible the development and the advances in simulation tools to cover the requirements of European...
By Eugenio Oñate, General Director of CIMNE It is very sad and painful for me to announce the death of Prof. Manuel Casteleiro on Thursday April 22th, 2021, after a long illness. Prof. Casteleiro was a pioneer in the development of numerical methods in Spain....
LIFE4MEDECA project aims to inform, discussion and support decision making by complementing ongoing efforts to the establishment of an Emission Control Area (ECA) in the Mediterranean. Among its dissemination actions, the project has just...
On April 20th, 2021, the Mayor of Mataró, David Bote, and the Mayor of Gavà, Raquel Sánchez, gathered the partners of the European project Gàvius in Mataró (Barcelona) to explain the co-creation process that now involves citizen...
Click and Scroll to see simulations Rainald Löhner, a professor of computational fluid dynamics at George Mason University in the US and a regular visiting scientist in CIMNE, has explained how the ventilation system of airplanes ensures air quality and prevents...
Alessandro Fraccica, member of the Geomechanics Group at CIMNE, has been awarded the Antonio Soriano Prize in its first edition 2019-2020 for the best thesis in the field of Geotechnical Engineering, granted by the Spanish Society of Soil Mechanics and...
On April 1st, HALLO project has kicked-off. Promoted by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology, it will create shared Urban Consolidation and Distribution Centres (UCDC) in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and demonstrate complementary actions such...
On March 26th, CIMNE has published the largest call for PhD positions of its history. More than 20 offers to start a PhD in many fields of engineering from the different research groups of the centre has been launched. Funded by CIMNE, this call is a good opportunity...
According to a study by the American company SciTech Strategies, Inc published by the scientific magazine PLOS Biology, Professor Eugenio Oñate, director of CIMNE and professor of Structural Mechanics at the School of Civil Engineering of the Technical...
Carmen Andrade, Visiting Research Professor, has been chosen as a Guest Professor 2021 by the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in the Construindo o Amanhà (Building Tomorrow) Chair dedicated to the sustainability of constructions. Dr. Andrade will give...
The Latin American Development Bank report highlights the current investment gap in the region and reviews intervention strategies to tackle future challenges and trends Increased and sustained investment in infrastructure is of paramount importance for...
CENIT has pioneered a holistic approach to evaluate infrastructure investments using an inclusive Cost Benefit Analysis approach All new major road and rail investment projects are subject to a set of strict criteria to determine the correct use of public funds...
CENIT aids call for municipal action on urban mobility with practical procurement guide for alternative bus technology Flowchart | Download PDF Traditionally the increase in urban mobility demand and infrastructure has been positively correlated with...
Professor Carmen Andrade, Associate Researcher at CIMNE, has been awarded the Fib Fellow Award. This distinction is given in recognition of her "significant personal contributions to the work of the International Federation for Structural Concrete -...
A new methodology to quantify ship emissions in the Port of Barcelona reduces the emissions of the most contaminating ships For years the environmental impact of port emissions has been overestimated due to a miss match in methodologies. Pollution from ship...
The CIMNE's spin-off Beedata Analytics has join recently the Energy Efficient Cluster of Catalonia. Beedata Analytics capitalizes on data information and brings a satisfactory, participatory and committed service to energy supplier companies. Beedata...
The registration for the new edition of Iber Online Courses is open. Iber is a two-dimensional mathematical model for the simulation of free surface flow in rivers and estuaries. The courses will take place from April 5th to June 15th using the new Iber 2.6. All...
In recent years CIMNE has developed a new concept of inflatable breakwater. The inflatable breakwater is formed by a collection of polymer tubes anchored to the sea bottom. Once the tubes are filled with water, they create a breakwater structure that emerges over the...
CIMNE joins the message launched by the United Nations (UN) in the International Women’s Day 2021 “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”. This theme celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world...
Recently, researchers from CIMNE, CIMNE Tecnología and the spin-off of the Fresh Water Nature (FWN) research centre collaborated in the publication of an article titled "Cool Steam Method for Desalinating Seawater" in Water, a peer-reviewed, open access journal...
The Government of Catalonia has presented #nextgenerationcatalonia, a Plan for the economic reactivation and social protection of Catalonia. This plan is aligned with the 2030 Agenda and development goals, the European green deal and the European digital strategy....
Buildair, a spin-off company of CIMNE, is setting an inflatable hangar for the company GMR Aero Technic (GAT), a leading Airframe Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facility based at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, India. The structure has a covered...
In December 2015, an UNESCO resolution established February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science to recognize the critical role played by women and girls in science and technology. According to data from this international body, less than...
Eglantina Dani is the co-leader of the European project EnerNETMob: Mediterranean Interregional Electromobility Networks for intermodal and interurban low carbon transport systems at CIMNE. She is a member of CENIT, Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of...
África Marrero, Naval and Oceanic Engineer by the Technical University of Cartagena, joined CENIT, the Innovation in Multimodal Transport Group of CIMNE, two years ago. Marrero’s research areas include computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and sustainable...
Anna Ramon, a member of Geomechanics group at CIMNE, leads ANHY_RISK since September 2019. The project is about risk prediction and safe design in anhydritic rocks. Experience gained during the analysis of swelling phenomena which damaged Lilla tunnel and Pont de...
Buildair, a spin-off of CIMNE, has recently carried out an intense international activity, which has resulted in participation in purchasing seminars, closing agreements and sponsorship of virtual events. Denmark: Copenhague United Nations Procurement...
FLEXCoop aims at introducing a complete automated Demand Response framework and tool suite for residential electricity consumers. The end-to-end interoperable solution will enable consumer flexibility to be valorised in front of a range of possible users in order...
Lucia Barbu (Braila, Romania, 1985) is an Assistant Research Professor at CIMNE and an Associate Professor at Technical University of Catalonia. Since the beginning of this month, she is leading the European Project Fatigue4Light, which consists of the study of...
CIMNE facilities located at UPC North Campus (C1 Building) have obtained the positive evaluation report from the Ascó-Vandellós II Nuclear Association (ANAV). It certifies that CIMNE has implemented a quality system succesfully evaluated in accordance...
The European-funded project KYKLOS 4.0 (An Advanced Circular and Agile Manufacturing Ecosystem based on rapid reconfigurable manufacturing process and individualized consumer preferences) has launched the call for Expression of Interest (EoI) for evaluators. The...
The 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics & ECCOMAS Congress took from January 11th to 15th, 2021. The Opening Session was introduced by the presidents of both scientific societies organizers of the event, Prof. Antonio Huerta (IACM) and Michał Kleiber...
The CIMNE researchers Santiago Badia, Alberto F. Martín, Eric Neiva and Francesc Verdugo from Large Scale Scientific Computing Group have recently published the article "A Generic Finite Element Framework on Parallel Tree-Based Adaptive Meshes" on SIAM Journal...
CIMNE closed 2020 with a total of 79,706 citations registered by Google Scholar, an h-index of 131 and an i10 Index of 1014. During 2020, the tool assigns 6,557 citations to CIMNE researchers' publications, an 8% increase compared to 2019 (6,032 citations...
One of the main challenges of increasing energy efficiency investments is the lack of statistical data on the actual energy and costs savings which are achieved through them. Data is still hard to access because it is decentralized and in different formats....
On 30th December 2020 has been published “Psychrophilic Full Scale Tubular Digester Operating over Eight Years: Complete Performance Evaluation and Microbiological Population” on the edition 2021 of Energies, an MDPI Open Access Journal. Jaime...
On December 21st 2020, Alejandro Cornejo has successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “A fully Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction between free surface flows and multifracturing solids and structures”. The thesis has been developed...
CIMNE celebrated on 21st December 2020 its traditional Christmas Toast. In this occasion, the event was held online due to Covid crisis. Despite this, the virtual event brought together some hundred participants, including representatives of the governing institutions...
On November 20th 2020, the prestigious Stanford University (California, USA) released a list of the "World's Top 2% Scientists", that is, 2% of the "best scientists" in diverse disciplines, selected according to criteria of high academic performance. The...
Fresh Water Nature SL (FWN), a spin-off company of CIMNE, has recently installed an experimental prototype for production of fresh water in the desalination plant Aguas Ter-Llobregat (ATL) located in the municipality of El Prat in Barcelona. The fresh water production...
The CIMNE researchers Drs. Irene Arias, Michele Chiumenti and Julio García have been recently appointed as Full Professors at Spanish Universities. Irene Arias Michele Chiumenti Julio García Drs. Arias and Chiumenti have got their Full Professorships at...
Recently, the CIMNE, through the CENIT Group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Mexican Federation of Civil Engineering Institutions Federation of Associations of Civil Engineers of Mexico (FEMCIC). This...
The CIMNE Industrial Manufacturing Processes research group, led by Professor Michele Chiumenti, works, in collaboration with different working groups of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), on a project funded by Concytec for the optimization...
CIMNE's spin-off Buildair Ingeniería y Arquitectura S.A. has installed a second inflatable H25x30 hangar in Lleida-Alguaire Airport. It has been setup in 1 day joining the H20x20 that was set-up by the company last July. The inflatable hagar is almost...
The European project EN-TRACK, coordinated by CIMNE-BEE Group, aims to enable continuous, large-scale data gathering on the energy and financial performance of Energy Efficiency Measures applied to buildings. By creating an open source big data...