Biography

Isidro is a mechanical engineer with interests in strength of materials, manufacture, and machinedesign. These interests had allowed him to work in areas of machine design for producing steel products, andmining; subsequently, he has worked in the recommissioning of machinery by combining theoretical andpractical mechanical skill with some automation using PLCs and a few sensors. Besides his industrial expertise,he had lectured mechanical engineering courses to undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His interests inmachinery and mechanics have allowed him to do research in the areas of biomechanics, machinecomponents and processes; more recently, in the areas of meshless methods and adhesive joints. Currently, he is part of an expanding research group studying the mechanical behaviour of adhesive joints by means ofmeshless methods.