Researchers within the DIAGONAL project

Guadalupe Vadillo

Project coordinator

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She is an associate professor and obtained her doctorate with honors in 2007 in Mechanical Engineering from UC3M.
She was awarded several distinctions, including the Extraordinary Doctorate award from UC3M and the extraordinary doctorate award from the Association of Mechanical Engineers of the Autonomous Region of Madrid.
She has published above 25 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and has participated in numerous national and international research projects, three of which were coordinated by her.
She has already graduated 3 PhD students, and 1 more is currently developing their doctoral research under her supervision.
She has been a visiting scientist at several prestigious international institutions, such as Texas A&M University, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
She has delivered invited lectures at international conferences and organized various thematic sessions. She is also a reviewer for prestigious journals indexed in the JCR.
She was a work package leader in the networks of excellence OUTCOME (Horizon 2020, Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions under REA grant agreement 675602) and QUANTIFY (Horizon 2020, Excellent Science, Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions under REA grant agreement 777896).

Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska

Work package leader

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Received her PhD (2001) and habilitation (2012) (both with distinction) in Mechanics. In 2022 she has been granted the Professor title by the President of the Republic of Poland in the field of engineering sciences. Her scientific interests concern mechanics of materials with a focus on micromechanical modelling, crystal and polycrystal plasticity, composite and anisotropic materials, large deformations and finite element simulations
She is an associate professor and the vice-chair of Scientific Council of IPPT to which institution she is affiliated since 2001.
She is the author or co-author of three monographs and over 50 papers in leading international journals, has mentored two PhDs and currently is supervising another two, participated in international and national research projects of which four were coordinated by her.
She is also the Editor in-Chief of the journal Engineering Transactions and the member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Plasticity.

José Reinoso

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José Reinoso is Associate Professor of Continuum Mechanics at the School of Engineering, Universidad de Sevilla (2021), where he teaches Solid Mechanics, Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Plasticity, Viscoelasticity, Finite Element Method. His research activities are related to Fracture Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Computational Mechanics and Composites, where he has achieved several notable results during the last 10 years yielding to the selection of the research papers included in the list of journal publications. This intensive research activities yield to the publication of 86 JCR papers (80 of in quartiles Q1 and Q2), 5 book chapters, over 90 contributions into national and international conferences, the supervision of 8 PhD.
During his scientific trajectory, it is remarkable the prominent international character through the conduction of several research stays at Universität Stuttgart (Germany), Leibiniz Universität Hannover (Germany), Stanford University (USA), Visiting Prof 2014-2019 at IMT Lucca (Italia) and a research stay at FEU Porto (Portugal).

Oana Cazacu

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Is full professor at the University of Florida, and a leading international expert in constitutive modelling of the anisotropy in plastic deformation and damage for both quasi-static and dynamic regimes.
Major contributions include the development of the most widely used anisotropic criteria for light weight metals with hexagonal crystal structure, now included in the built-in materials library of commercial and academic finite-element codes.
She has authored 11 book chapters, edited and co-edited 3 books and over 80 papers in the highest impact factor international journals.
She has delivered over 90 invited lectures (17 plenary and keynote lectures) at the major conferences, and topical symposia in the field.
She is co-founder of the ICACM, a partnership between several US and French universities, with the scope of promoting research at the forefront of mechanics.
She also served as Chairperson for the joint ICACM-IUTAM 2011 Topical Symposium on Linking Scales in Computation.
She has been recipient of visiting chair professorships in Europe (University Pierre and Marie Curie, University of Lille), and Australia (Swinburne University).

Israel García

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Associate Professor of Continuum Mechanics at the Universidad de Sevilla, where he teaches courses in Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Finite Elements, and Experimental Techniques in Solid Mechanics. His primary research interests encompass Crack Initiation in Fracture Mechanics, the transition from damage to fracture, plasticity in metals, and damage in composites. To advance knowledge in these fields, his research seamlessly combines state-of-the-art computational and experimental techniques.
He holds degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master's in Advanced Mechanical Engineering Design. In 2014, he earned his Ph.D. with honors. He earned several distinctions, including the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from Universidad de Sevilla and international mention for his doctoral work, along with the Airbus Special Award for his Master's thesis.
With over 20 JCR peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals, he has actively participated in numerous national and international research projects, even assuming coordination of one such endeavor. Notably, he has successfully supervised one Ph.D. student to graduation, while another is currently under his mentorship in pursuit of their doctoral research.
He was a visiting scientist in several prestigious universities, such as Sorbonne Université, Cornell University, and the University of Aberdeen.
He has been invited to deliver lectures at various international conferences and has organized several thematic sessions. Furthermore, he participated as a reviewer for esteemed journals indexed in the JCR, including the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, International Journal of Fracture, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Composites Science and Technology, Composite Structures, and Composites Part A.

Vladislav Mantic

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Vladislav Mantič is Professor of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis at the University of Seville, where he has been working since 1994. Previously he worked at the Technical University of Košice and at the Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Košice.
He graduated in Mathematical Engineering from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague with the Rector's Award in 1984 and received his doctorate from the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague in 1993. For six years he served as the director of the Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management at the University of Seville.
Currently he coordinates the European research project NewFrac» focused on the development of Phase Field models of fracture and the Coupled Criterion of Finite Fracture Mechanics.
He is working on the further development of the Coupled Criterion of Finite Fracture Mechanics especially on its computational implementation, in the singularity analysis of corners and cracks with spring boundary or interface conditions, and in the prediction of crack onset and propagation in composite materials. Some of his achievements in the field of boundary integral equations and fracture mechanics are mentioned here.
He deduced a general closed-form expression for the coefficient-tensor of the free term in the 3D Somigliana identity for linear elastic isotropic solids. He deduced a relationship between the fracture-mode-mixity angles based on the Stress Intensity Factors and the Energy Release Rates in interface cracks between dissimilar linear elastic isotropic adherents.
He introduced two alternative formulations of the Coupled Criterion, the first based on the minimization of the envelope of the stress criterion and energy criterion functions, and the second based on the minimization of the total energy functional subjected to a stress condition in a load stepping scheme.
He proposed a general and semi-analytic matrix formalism for singularity analysis of anisotropic linear elastic multi-material corners considering many types of boundary and interface conditions and covering also frictional sliding contact.

Sonia Mogilevskaya

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Prof. Mogilevskaya received her PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the Scotchinsky Research Institute of Mining (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) in 1987. She joined the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 1999 where she is currently a Research Professor and a Member of the Graduate Faculty.
She has published over 95 archival journal papers and co-authored a chapter in the book on complex hypersingular BEM in plane elasticity problems. At the UMN, she taught a graduate course on the Boundary Element Methods and, currently, together with Prof. Steve Crouch is completing a book on that subject.
In 2019, she was a Simons INI Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge and, in 2022, a Visiting Fellow at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany.
In 2021, she received the University of Minnesota award for Global Engagement in recognition of outstanding contributions to global education and international programs at the University and in the field of discipline.

Joseph F. Labuz

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Joseph Labuz is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received his degrees in civil engineering, with BS from Illinois Tech, MS and PhD from Northwestern University. In 1987, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota.
His research area is experimental geomechanics, dealing with fluid-rock interactions related to mineral carbon storage, fracture and damage of rock associated with size effects, and development of novel experimental apparatus including acoustic emission monitoring. Labuz has advised 50 graduate students, published over 100 papers in refereed journals, and presented some 40 invited lectures.
His awards include best papers (48th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, 2014; Giovanni Barla Best Paper, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2022) and an honorary chair (Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 2016).
Labuz is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Rock Mechanics Association.

Phu Nguyen

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Marco Paggi

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Marco Paggi received his Master's Degree in Civil Engineering in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 2005 from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. After a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2005-2007), he became Assistant Professor of Structural Mechanics in the same University (2007-2013).
He spent the year 2010 as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Institute of Continuum Mechanics of the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. He has been appointed Associate Professor (November 2013-December 2017, direct appointment as an ERC principal investigator) and Full Professor (December 2017-present) of Structural Mechanics at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, where he is the Director of the Research Unit MUSAM - Multi-Scale Analysis of Materials, and of the experimental laboratory MUSAM Lab.
He serves as elected member of the Academic Council (November 2013-December 2015; March 2017-present) and he has been appointed Rector's Delegate for Research (December 2015-October 2021), Member of the Executive Board of the Joint Technology Transfer Office (February 2016-October 2021), Rector's Delegate for Buildings, Spaces and Sustainability (November 2022-October 2024).
He is currently Coordinator of the PhD in Management of Digital Transformation (cycles 38, 39) and Director of the Track in Computational Mechanics for the PhD in Systems Science (cycles 38, 39).
He has been visiting professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (October 2013), visiting full professor at the Laboratoire de Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle of the Université Paris EST (May 2014), adjunct professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Trento (A.Y. 2016-2017) and at the University of Pisa (A.Y. 2016-2017 and A.Y. 2017-2018), visiting professor at Politecnico di Torino (June-July 2018), visiting GIAN professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (May 2019), visiting professor at the University of Girona (March 2022).
He is member of the International Advisory Board of the Excellence Laboratory MANUTECH-SISE (Lyon-St Etienne, France) on Science and Engineering of Surfaces and Interfaces (2020-2024).
He is the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Mechanics of Materials Group of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics since September 2022, member of the same Committee since September 2015. Member of the Task 13 Committee on Performance and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems of the International Energy Agency, Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS) since 2014.
He has been an Elected Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Group of Fracture, 2009-2011 & 2011-2013. Member of the Board of Directors of Lucense scarl (2019-2022 & 2022-2025). Member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the National Competence Centre ARTES4.0 for Industry 4.0 (2019-2021 & 2022-2024) and Coordinator of its Academic and Research Board (March 2021-February 2022).

Jose Antonio Rodríguez-Martínez

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Associate professor at the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis at UC3M, as well as a visiting scientist at IMDEA Materials.
Received a doctorate with honors in 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from UC3M and in Mechanics of Materials from UL.
He has received several distinctions, including the extraordinary doctorate award from UC3M, the extraordinary doctorate award from the Association of Mechanical Engineers of the Autonomous Region of Madrid, and the title of Young Excellent Researcher from UC3M.
He has published over 85 peer-reviewed JCR papers in the most renowned journals of Solid Mechanics and has delivered more than 20 invited lectures and seminars at prestigious international conferences, universities, and research centers.
He has served as the chairman of 4 international conferences (including an IUTAM symposium and an EUROMECH colloquium) and has organized thematic sessions on the dynamic behavior of materials in numerous international congresses.
He has already graduated 6 PhD students, and 4 more are currently pursuing their doctoral research under his supervision.
He has been the principal investigator of numerous regional, national, and international projects, including PURPOSE (ERC Starting Grant 2017), OUTCOME (MSCA-ITN-ETN 2015), and QUANTIFY (MSCA-RISE 2017).
He has been a visiting scientist at several prestigious international institutions, such as Texas A&M University, University of Florida, and University of Lorraine.
He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, and he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Plasticity.

Tiago dos Santos

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Tiago dos Santos is an Adjunct professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil (UFSM), where he teaches courses on Solid Mechanics, Integrity of Mechanical Structures, Aircraft Structures, and Finite Element Analysis. He works in the field of computational solid mechanics, focusing on the modelling of materials and structures subjected to dynamic loading. He is member of the research Group of Technology and Mechanics of Materials.
He is Graduated (2010) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Caxias do Sul (Brazil) and obtained Masters (2012) and PhD (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
He has published 15 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and has participated in conferences on Solid Mechanics. Tiago has been a visiting researcher at the University Carlos III of Madrid in three research stays, in 2019, 2021 and 2023.

Ankit Srivastava

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Ankit is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University from 2013 to 2015.
He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering in 2013, along with MS degrees in Physics and Materials Science & Engineering from the University of North Texas. He also worked at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India from 2007 to 2009.
His research interests lie within the Mechanics of Materials with a focus on understanding deformation and failure mechanisms of structural materials.
He is the recipient of 2022 and 2021 AISI finalist medals, the 2022 TMS-AIME Robert Lansing Hardy award, the 2022 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award, among others.

Q. Jane Wang

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Q. Jane Wang obtained her Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, in 1993, and is now a Joseph Cummings Professor in Mehcnaical Engineering there. Her research is mainly in the areas of contact/interfacial mechanics, tribological science and engineering.
She served the professional communities as a member of Board of Directors of STLE during 2008-2009, Secretary of the Technical Program Committee of the 2005 Word Tribology Congress, Chair of the Program Committee of the 2008 STLE Annual Meeting, Chair of the 2011 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference.
Her research work has resulted in eight best-paper awards from ASME and STLE. She was elected Fellow of the ASME in 2009 and STLE in 2007. She received the 2015 STLE International Award, the highest award of the society, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Researchers

Guadalupe Vadillo

Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska

José Reinoso

Oana Cazacu

Israel García

Vladislav Mantic

Sonia Mogilevskaya

Joseph F. Labuz

Phu Nguyen

Marco Paggi

Jose Antonio Rodríguez-Martínez

Tiago dos Santos

Ankit Srivastava

Q. Jane Wang

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