Current Projects

ZEBAI: Innovative methodologies for the design of Zero-Emission and cost-effective Buildings enhanced by Artificial Intelligence.
Horizon EU (2023-2028)

NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre; TBI subtheme (dementia theme).
NIHR (2022-2027)

Brain waves in a bio-hybrid chip.
John Fell Fund (2022-2023)

Humanoid
Developing a humanoid bioreactor for tendon tissue engineering.
EPSRC Healthcare Technology Grant (2019-2023)

ASiMoV
Strategic Partnership in Computational Science for Advanced Simulation and Modelling of Engineering Systems.
EPSRC Prosperity Partnership Grant (2018-2023)

NeuroPulse
NeuroPulse: Electrophysiological-mechanical coupled pulses in neural membranes: a new paradigm for clinical therapy of SCI and TBI.
EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Award (2016-2023)

Completed Projects

Prediction of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), a tool for investigation, harm reduction, and violence prevention. 
Police Star Fund (2022-2023)

VIANA
Applied Visual Analytics.
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2018-2021)

The role of geometric-edge specification in cell growth mechanics and morphogenesis.
BBSRC (2017-2021)

SimTBI
A Traumatic Brain Injury Simulator.
UCSF Oxford

COMUNEM
Computational Multiscale Neuron Mechanics.
ERC Starting Grant

NUMERICAL MODELLING OF SHOCK WAVE INTERACTIONS WITH KIDNEY CELLS
Modelling of mechanical response of kidney cells and cancerous cells under shock wave loading.
Doctoral Training Centre in Healthcare Innovation

MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING FOR NEURON GROWTH
The project aims at developing mathematical and computational models of the mechanics, growth, and remodelling  of neurones.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Global Research Partnership

HIGH TEMPERATURES DEFORMATION MECHANISMS IN NICKEL BASED SUPERALLOYS
Modelling high temperature deformation mechanisms such as microtwinning appearing in Ni-based superalloys and validating these models against experiments.
Doctoral Trainning Partnership Grant

NAVAN – NOVEL ADVANCES IN VISUAL ANALYTICS
NAVAN is a multisiciplinary project that aims at the development of specific Visual Analytics methods based on the combination of data mining and advanced multimodal interaction techniques. Its deployment in several integrated, final tools, will facilitate the task of result analysis in a wide variety of application fields within the areas selected as project use cases: health, digital contents industry and manufacturing.
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

CAJAL BLUE BRAIN
Electro-mechanical continuum modeling of neurons
IMDEA Materials Institute – UPM

ALYA
Code Development – Large Scale Computational Mechanics
(In collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center – BSC)

NANOGB
Multiscale modeling and analysis of plasticity of nanocrystalline metals
(In collaboration with University of Liege – ULg )

MULTI-SCALE MODELLING OF NEURAL INJURY
Modelling of mechanical response of peripheral nerves
Doctoral Training Centre; Solid Mechanics, Dept Engineering Science – University of Oxford

SIMUCOMP
Large scale numerical simulation of failure mechanism in composite materials
European Union, FP7-EraNet Matera+

MAGNO
Design and study of magnesium alloys for automotive applications
Antolin S.A. & MICINN (CENIT Programme)

COMPOSIMPA
Modeling and simulations of failure of composite structures under impact
European Union, FP7-EraNet SME