Ignacio Romero

Personal data

Education

  • Industrial Engineer, Mechanical Engineering major (UPComillas) | 1995
  • MSc Mechanical Engineering (Stanford University, US) | 1997
  • PhD Civil & Environmental Engineering (UC Berkeley, US) | 2001

Scholarships and awards

  • Fulbright scholarship (1996/97)
  • “Ramón y Cajal” award (2001/05), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • Scholarship for the mobility of professors (2011/12), Fundación Caja Madrid
  • Zienkiewicz award and medal (2011), The Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) & Wiley & sons, to a post-graduate researcher under the age of 40 who submits the paper that contributes most to research in the field of numerical methods in engineering.

Academic and professional positions

  • “Ramón y Cajal” researcher (2001/05)
  • Assistant Professor (2005/06)
  • Associate Professor (2006/11)
  • Full Professor (2011–)
  • Visiting scholar, California Institute of Technology (2011/12)
  • Vice-dean for research and doctoral studies (2013/14)
  • Senior researcher at IMDEA Materials Institute (2014–)
  • Deputy director, IMDEA Materials Institute (2015/17)
  • Vice-president of the Spanish Association of Mechanics and Computational Engineering (SEMNI)
  • Director, IMDEA Materials Institute (2017/21)

Lecturing during 2022/23

  • Continuum mechanics (see moodle).
  • Advanced strength of materials - in English (see moodle).
  • Methods for advanced simulation (see moodle).
  • Lecture notes can be found in here

Research lines

Computational and Applied Solid Mechanics, and more specifically:

  • Computational Solid Dynamics: Development, analysis, implementation and error estimation of numerical methods applied to the solution of dynamical problems of deformable bodies. Geometrical aspects of the continuum and discrete equations.

  • Nonlinear Structural Models: Design, analysis and implementation of finite element models for nonlinear rods and shells.

  • Computational Material Modeling Multiscale (continuum to atomistic) numerical models of metals. Material behavior at extreme conditions

  • Main developer of IRIS, a general purpose research finite element code for linear, nonlinear, quasistatic and transient problems in solid, fluid, and structural mechanics.

  • Lead developer of MUESLI, the Material UnivErSal LIbrary. An open-source library for constitutive models of materials at the continuum level.

Other

Member of the scientific board of the Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics

Recent publications

  • Romero, I., Andrés, E. M., & Ortiz-Toranzo, Á. (2021). Variational updates for general thermo–chemo–mechanical processes of inelastic solids. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 385, 114013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.114013.

  • Schiebl, M., & Romero, I. (2021). Energy-momentum conserving integration schemes for molecular dynamics. Computational Mechanics, 83(13), 2592–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00466-020-01971-6

  • Cantón-Sánchez, R., & Romero, I. (2021). Dimensionally reduced nonlinear solids with general loads and constitutive laws: theory and finite element formulation for rod-like bodies. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 210-211, 273–288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.11.024

  • Tapia-Fernández, Santiago, Alonso-Miyazaki, P. H., Romero, I., & García-Beltrán, Á. (2021). Strategy and algorithms for the parallel solution of the nearest neighborhood problem in shared-memory processors. Engineering with Computers, 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01304-y

  • Elahi, M. S., Tavakoli, R., Boukellal, A. K., Isensee, T., Romero, I., Tourret, D. (2022). Multiscale simulation of powder-bed fusion processing of metallic alloys. Computational Materials Science, (209) 111383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111383

  • Elahi, S.M. and Tavakoli, R. and Romero, I. and Tourret, D. (2022). Grain growth competition during melt pool solidification — Comparing phase-field and cellular automaton models. Computational Materials Science (216) 111882. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2022.111882

  • Romero, I. and Ortiz, M. (2023). Extended molecular dynamics: Seamless temporal coarse-graining and transition between deterministic and probabilistic paradigms. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids (97). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2022.104858

  • Schenk, C., Portillo, D. and Romero, I. (2023). Linking discrete and continuum diffusion models: Well‐posedness and stable finite element discretizations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.7204.

  • de Pablos, J.L., Sabirov, I. and Romero, I. (2023). A methodology for the calibration of complex material models: application to thermo-elasto-plastic materials for high-velocity impact simulations. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. [[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11831-023-09888-y]]

  • Cantón-Sánchez, R., Portillo, D. and Romero, I. (2023). Dimensionally reduced, nonlinear dragged solids: Theory and finite elements for rigid and shell-like bodies. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, vol. 100, pg. 104980. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2023.104980

  • Vasudevan, A., Rodríguez-Martínez, J., Romero, I. (2023). Analysis and design of bistable and thermally reversible metamaterials inspired by shape-memory alloys. International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2023.112278

  • Romero, I. Schenk, C. (2023). Connecting beams and continua: variational basis and mathematical analysis. Meccanica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-023-01702-0

  • Cabral, N., Romero, I., Huespe, A. (2024). On the limit behavior of lattice-type metamaterials with bi-stable mechanisms. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, vol. 276 (109375). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109375

  • Schenk, C. and Vasudevan, A. and Haranczyk, M. and Romero, I. (2024). Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Control of Reaction-Diffusion Problems, Optimal Control Applications and Methods. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oca.3196

Active competitive projects

  • Optimal structures of assembled laminates: numerical methods, design, and manufacturing (OPTIMATED) 2022-2025 - Ministerio Español de Ciencia y Tecnología PID2021-128812OB-I00.

  • High Entropy Alloys Resistant to Hydrogen Embrittlement/ (EARTH) 2022-2024 - Ministerio Español de Ciencia y Tecnología - TED2021-130255B-C32.