Vice-rector for Research
Pedro Díez Mejía
- Promotion, evaluation and monitoring of research groups, specific research centres and research projects
- Research dissemination
- Research initiation grants (in coordination with the vice-rector for Teaching and Research Staff Policy)
- Research grants, Campus of Excellence and other specific projects
- Discretionary research staff
- Relations with CERCA research centres
- Ethics Committee
- ImTech and CRM support
- Doctoral School (in coordination with the vice-rector for Academic and Language Policy)
- Planning and programming of doctoral programmes
- Industrial doctorates
- University teaching staff training grants (in coordination with the vice-rector for Teaching and Research Staff)
Biography
Pedro Díez is a full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from the UPC. He teaches at the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering (ETSECCPB).
He is the director of the LaCàN research group and the scientific director of the CIMNE. He is the co-author of more than 100 indexed publications on computational engineering. He was a visiting professor and researcher at the École Normale Supérieure Cachan, the École Centrale Paris, the Politecnico di Milano, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy). Every two years since 2003, he has organised the International Conference on Adaptive Modeling and Simulation (ADMOS), the 12th edition being in 2025.
He was the vice-rector for International Policy (2010-2013) and the director of the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering (2016-2020). He is currently the president of the Spanish Society of Computational Mechanics and Computational Engineering (SEMNI) and the vice-president of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS).