Researchers
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Technical University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech
Dra. Jasmina Casals-Terré. Received an M.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 2002 and in 2007 a Ph.D. in design, fabrication, and testing of bistable MEMS switches in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. She joined the Faculty of UPC-BarcelonaTech in 2007 and She became a Full Professor in 2020 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
In 2021, She got an Adjunct Professorship position in Fluid and Experimental Mechanics in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics at the Luleä University of Technology, Sweden.
She is currently Director of the research group CATMech (Center for Advanced Technologies in Mechanics) at the Technical Univeristy of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech, and Principal Investigator of the Microfluidics Division (MicroTech Lab).
Her research is focused on MEMS and microfluidics, especially in designing, modeling, and manufacturing microfluidic chips for particle separation focused on bioengineering and industrial applications, such as optimized tribology or novel wearable applications in diagnosis. She has more than 20 years of experience in research project management (Leading several European, national, and regional projects) and She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers (most of them in Q1). She holds several patents (some have been licensed and with international extension). She is Editorial Board Member of IEEE Sensors Letters and other journals.
In 2023-24, she was awarded Fulbright scholar and spent 6 months at Florida Polytechnic University and Visiting Professor for a month at Paris-Saclay University.
She has been vice-dean at Aeronautics, audiovisual, and Industrial Engineering School of the Technical University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech.
She is currently a Board Member of the Institutional Accreditation and Certification of Quality Assurance Agency UNIBASQ. Besides, She collaborates with different National and International Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education.
Professor
Physics Department
Technical University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech
Jordi Sellarès earned his Physics Degree in 1992 from Universitat de Barcelona (UB). In 1997 defends his Ph.D. thesis about semi-classical methods in solid state physics “Response of simple–metal systems with plane symmetry to local one–body operators”, also at UB. In 1996 moves to Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) where presently is associate professor. His main research interest is the experimental study of electrical properties of materials.
Associate Professor
Fluid Mechanics Department
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- BarcelonaTech
Robert Castilla received the M. Degree in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1991 and the Ph. D. in Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2001. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Fluid Mechanics of the UPC since 2011. His research fields have been principally the numerical simulation of fluid flow in a wide range of applications, from turbulent flow in atmosphere to microflows and fluid power components.
Researcher
Aerospace
Technical University of Catalonia - BarcelonaTech
Josep Farré is reseacher and part-time professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. In 2004 He graduated as an Industrial Engineer (Mechatronics) from the School of Engineering in Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After finishing his studies he worked 4 years for a wind power manufacturer, initially as a mechanical designer, and afterwards, at the operation department. This background provided him with an extensive vision of the wind turbine life cycle. Later he came back to the University to pursue his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the field of Microtribology and Microfluidics issued by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2014. In 2015 He joined the Lulea University of Technology, in Sweden as a Post Doc, to lead the micro tribology team. In 2017 he joined the Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech) as a researcher in the MicroTech Lab. His current research interests include the improvement of the reliability and efficiency of wind turbines applying microfluidic technology to develop a novel lubrication system useful for wind turbine gears. His research interest focuses on the enhancement of micro tribology through the use of microfluidics and the study of microfluidics flows through micro particle image velocimetry.
Professor
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Research area: Microwave Systems.
Lluís Pradell received the telecommunication engineer degree and the PhD. degree in telecommunication engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1981 and 1989, respectively. He joined the Faculty of UPC in 1985 and became Full Professor in 2005. His research area is Microwave Systems, including on-wafer measurement and calibration techniques, millimeter-wave system design up to 75 GHz, multimodal models for CPW structures/transitions, and design/applications of RF-MEMS microdevices.
Associate Professor
Department of Mining, Industrial and ICT Engineering
Technical University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech
Dr. Joan Antoni López Martínez received the M. D. in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech (UPC) in 2004, and in 2012 a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Machinery Synthesis and Design. He joined the Faculty of UPC-BarcelonaTech in 1999 as a part-time professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and since 2007 as an associate professor in the Design and Engineering Projects Area.
Since 2011 he has signed several non-competitive research and technology transfer agreements with various companies in the fields of machinery design and automotive industry. His scientific publications began in 2012 with the research focus on simulations, ergonomic studies, and microfluidics. He holds one patent focused on the field of biomechanics. He has worked too in some European and national competitive projects
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Technical University of Catalonia-BarcelonaTech
Dra. Ivón Rodríguez. Graduated in Electronics and Communications Engineering from ITESM Campus Monterrey, Mexico, in 2004. She obtained her Masters in Bioengineering (2006) and in Biomedical Engineering (2008) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Universitat de Barcelona (UB) respectively. She obtained her PhD in Biomedicine in 2011 (UB) with a research stay at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull, UK. She completed a first postdoc at the Condensed Matter Physics Department (UB) and a second at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), focusing on complex fluids analysis and characterisation, microfabrication and microfluidic devices. She has been a part-time professor at UB for six years, teaching informatics, bioengineering, robotics and mechatronics courses. She has been part of several technology transfer and industry collaboration projects. Her research interests include microfluidics, microfabrication, magnetophoresis, analysis and monitoring of biological samples at the microscale, and development of microdevices for multidisciplinary fields. She has also led the creation, assembly, and management of several research laboratories at UB, CRM and UPC. She is the author of more than ten scientific journals (mostly in Q1), and book chapters and holds two licensed international patents in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.