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