Prof. Francisco J Huera-Huarte
Professor (Catedrático) of Mechanical Engineering.
Mechanical Engineer, UPC, 2003
PhD, Dept. of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, 2006
Marie Curie IOF Research Fellow, GALCIT, CALTECH, 2008-2010
Associate Editor Journal Fluids and Structures (Elsevier)
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Awards:
- AGAUR Acadèmia d’Excel.lència (ICREA Acadèmia) 2025-2030
- In Stanford world top 2% scientists list, yearly since first edition in 2019
- Isabel P Trabal Young Investigator Award 2015, Fundación Caixa Enginyers
- Agustín de Betancourt Young Investigator Award 2014, Real Academia de Ingeniería
Previous appointments:
Visiting Associate in Aerospace at GALCIT, CALTECH, 2018
Visiting Scholar at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2016
Visiting Associate in Aerospace at GALCIT, CALTECH, 2015
Guest Faculty, PMMH, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, 2015
Visiting Associate in Aerospace at GALCIT, CALTECH, 2014
Marie Curie IOF Postdoctoral Fellow, GALCIT, CALTECH, 2008-2009
PhD students:
- Faheem Khan (FPI grant)
- Satyam Satyam (COFUND grant)
Visitors:
- Xinyu Tong (PhD student, Westlake University, China)
PhD Alumni:
- Sukruth Satheesh (PhD 2019)
- Héctor Diaz-Ojeda (PhD 2019, co-supervised with Leo Gutierrez, ETSIN, UPM)
- Miguel Somoano Rodriguez (PhD 2018)
- Rafael Fernández-Prats (PhD 2015)
- Zafar Abbas Bangash (PhD 2015)
Collaborators:
Gharib’s group, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology
Ramiro Godoy-Diana, PMMH lab, ESPCI, ParisTech.
Canal Ensayos Hidrodinámicos, Escuela Técnica Superior Ingeniería Naval, Universidad Politécnica Madrid
Dixia Fan, i⁴ – FSI lab, Westlake University, China
Past visitors:
José Carlos Muñoz Hervás (Visiting PhD student, U. Jaén)
Rafael Salles (Visiting PhD student, USP Brazil)
Roberto Sosa, Laboratorio Fluido Dinámica, U. Buenos Aires, Argentina. (June 2016)
Jose Ignacio Jimenez, Fluid Mechanics Research Group, U. Jaén. (Sept.-Dec. 2016)
Clément Haeck, MSc student ENS Paris Saclay (April – July 2017)