Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech
Hi! Welcome to my personal webpage. I completed my bachelor's and master's studies in pure and applied mathematics in 2013. Then, I did my PhD in applied mathematics and robotics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where I developed several geometric and numerical methods to deal with two classical problems in robot kinematics (the inverse kinematics and the singularity identification problem). After finishing my PhD in 2018, I moved to Italy to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Advanced Robotics Department of the Italian Institute of Technology. There, I complemented my background by learning about industrial robotics, automation and applied machine learning. From 2021 - 2022, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Leuven (Belgium), where I used and applied all my previous background to the development of robotic strategies for the optimal disassembly of electric and electronic devices. In particular, I have geometrically characterized both the object to be disassembled and the obstacles present in the workspace to compute an optimal free-from-obstacles trajectory for the robot to execute its tasks. In December 2022, I started again at UPC as Maria Zambrano postdoctoral fellow, where my research has focused on the development of methods to address kinematic problems for closed kinematic chains by means of conformal geometric algebra, algebraic geometry and machine learning. As of the academic year 2023-2024, I have assumed the position of assistant professor of robotics and computer vision at UPC.
Short Bio
Education
2012
Bachelor in Mathematics
University of Murcia, Spain
2013
Master in Pure and Applied Mathematics
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
2018
PhD in Automatic Control and Robotics
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Research stays abroad
January - April 2017 (University of Cambridge)
Visiting scholar at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Joan Lasenby. The research focused on exploring the use of conformal geometric algebra in robot kinematics.
Professional experience
2013-2017
Research and teaching assistant
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2018-2020
Research associate
Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Senior Research Associate
University of Leuven, Belgium
2021-2022
Maria Zambrano Postdoctoral Fellow
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2023
2023-Current
Assistant Professor in Robotics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain