Professional experience
Senior R&D Engineer
Ansys, Madrid (Spain)
Activities involved:
- Developing Ansys Forming, a metal stamping simulation software
February 2024 – present
Senior R&D Engineer
Helbling USA, Cambridge MA
Activities involved:
- Led the development of a robotic case-opening system
- Designed a prototype of a soft-robotic end-effector for picking complex objects
- Managed R&D projects in collaboration with leading robotics firms
- Designed a highly-dynamic robotic system for package handling
- Optimized the thermal behavior of an arm for robotic-assisted surgery
- Deployed a robotic arm (UR10) in combination with a pneumatic and vision system
June 2021 – September 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher
inspire AG, strategic partner of ETH Zurich for technology transfer
Activities involved:
- Optimized the design of the cooling system of a high-precision 5-axis machine tool
- Managed an innovation project with a Swiss machine tool manufacturer (Innosuisse)
April 2020 – March 2021
Doctoral Researcher
inspire AG, strategic partner of ETH Zurich for technology transfer
Activities involved:
- Validated multi-physics models using the measurement data from a multi-sensor system
- Optimized of the cooling of key components of precision 5-axis machine tools
- Measured the performance of precision manufacturing units using custom measurement procedures (R-Test, electronic levels)
- Improved the precision of a large 5-axis machine tool exposed to external fluid media
August 2016 – April 2020
Doctoral Researcher
MORe is a team at inpsire AG. We develop a simulation tool for the evaluation of the geometric, static, dynamic, and thermo-mechanical performance of machine tools.
Activities involved:
- Developing and maintaining the thermo-mechanical Finite Element (FE) module
- Implementing Model Order Reduction algorithms to reduce the computational effort of large thermo-mechanical FE-models
- Managed a large, open-source software project (GIT version control, Agile software development)
- Provided customer support
- Promoted the use of the software in industry by writing blogs and updating the website
January 2017 – March 2021
Education
Doctor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
- Title: Efficient Thermal Error Models of Machine Tools
- Thesis advisor Prof. Konrad Wegener at the Institute of Manufacturing and Machine Tools (IWF)
- Investigated novel numerical methods to increase the computational efficiency of large thermo-mechanical Finite Element models (Model Order Reduction)
- Published in scientific peer-reviewed journals (ASME, CIRP Annals, Computational Mechanics)
- Presented at several international conferences (EUSPEN, ASPE)
- Teaching assistant of several courses at the mechanical engineering department
- Main advisor of two MSc thesis and one BSc thesis
- Attended lectures on System Identification and Linear System Theory
August 2016 – April 2020
MSc Mechanical Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
- Duration: 2 years (90 credits)
- Focus on production
- GPA 5.95/6
- Master thesis titled “Change of thermal resonance of machine tools influenced by machine housings” was awarded with the ETH Medal
September 2014 – April 2016
BSc and MSc Mechanical Engineering
Unviersity of the Basque Country (Spain)
- Duration: 5 years (375 credits)
- Focus on manufacturing
- GPA 8.66/10
September 2009 – July 2014
Machine Tool Unit
Unviersity of the Basque Country (Spain)
- Duration: 1 year (21 credits)
- Specialized degree on manufacturing and machine tools
September 2013 – July 2014
Awards and achievements
Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award
Awarded for best current original paper in 2021 on manufacturing systems by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
2021
ETH Medal
Awarded for outstanding master thesis by the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) ETH Zurich
2017
Excellence scholarship of “la Caixa” for postgraduate studies in Europe
Awarded for the MSc Mechanical Engineering Program at ETH
2014
First Prize of the EUSPEN Challenge Spain
First prize in the national competition and participation in the international EUSPEN Challenge in Heidenhain (Traunreut, Germany)
2014
Idom Prize to the Best Academic Record
For high academic merit in the last year of the Mechanical Engineering program
2014
Idom Prize to the Best Academic Record
For high academic merit in the second year of the Mechanical Engineering program
2011
Methods
Anysis (Finite Element Software)
- Ansys Programming Design Language (APDL)
- Workbench
- CFX (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
- Application Customization Toolkit (ACT)
MATLAB
- Simulink
- System identification toolbox
- Robotic System Toolbox
Other methods
- Solidworks (CAD)
- ROS
- Prototyping (3D priniting)
- Labview
- Version control (GIT)
Computer skills
Python
- Numpy, Scipy (Scientific programming)
- Mayavi (Visualization tool)
- TraitsUI (Graphical User Interface)
LATEX
MS-Office
Other programming skills
- C++
- Visual Studio
- Labview
Languages
Spanish
Native speaker
English
Fluent. Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (C2)
German
Advanced knowledge (C1)
French
Intermediate knowledge (B2)
Basque
Fluent