Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech
Core academic home in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with teaching, supervision, funded research, technology transfer and doctoral training.
International Profile
University Relationships and Research Mobility
Collaborations, research stays, teaching activity and academic networks across Europe and Asia, with a focus on bridge monitoring, structural health monitoring and AI for civil infrastructure.
University Relationships
Academic Links Beyond UPC
Tongji University
Research stays in 2024 and 2025 in Shanghai on bridge monitoring using low-cost embedded sensors, smartphones and commercial accelerometers. Taught emergent technologies in bridge health monitoring at the 15th Tongji-KAIST Civil Engineering Summer School.
Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Guest research on pedestrian bridge monitoring using low-cost and commercial accelerometers, plus a funded Unite! Visiting Professorship for winter semester 2025/26.
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Collaboration on bridge monitoring applications, publications and supervision of research work connected to low-cost sensors and mining/infrastructure monitoring.
Unite! University Alliance
Active in the University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering, including UPC, Aalto University, KTH, Wroclaw Tech, TU Darmstadt, TU Graz, Grenoble INP-UGA, Politecnico di Torino and the University of Lisbon.
Erasmus Mundus NoRisk consortium
Helping coordinate an international master's program on risk assessment and management of civil infrastructures with UPC, Universidade do Minho, La Rochelle Universite and Universita degli Studi di Padova.
ESITC Caen
Taught Prestressing in Building in the Master's Degree in Structural and Construction Engineering.
Research Stays
Mobility and Visiting Positions
International stays connecting experimental monitoring, low-cost sensing, bridge system identification and academic teaching.
May 2023
Structural system identification of bridges
TU Darmstadt, Germany
Future Talent Guest Stay focused on bridge monitoring with low-cost accelerometers and inclinometers.
June - August 2024
Bridge health monitoring research stay
Tongji University, Shanghai
Monitoring a cable-stayed bridge using low-cost embedded sensors from cellphones and commercial accelerometers.
July - September 2025
Visiting scholar research stay
Tongji University, Shanghai
Continued collaboration on bridge health monitoring and low-cost sensing.
2025 - 2026
Unite! Visiting Professorship
TU Darmstadt, Germany
Funded visiting professorship for winter semester 2025/26.
Network Value
A Teaching and Research Bridge
These university relationships strengthen research outputs, thesis direction, student mobility, international teaching and professional AI training. They also create a strong foundation for company-specific AI applications in construction and infrastructure.
The profile combines academic collaboration with deployable tools: research informs the AI classes, and the AI classes help professionals turn requirements into usable digital workflows.