Biography

I hold a Ph.D. in Engineering that obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Burgos), in 2011, within the doctoral program of Civil and Industrial Engineering. Previously, I have also obtained other awards such as the 2nd National Degree Award (2002). I have received various scholarships, including a postgraduate scholarship from the Regional Government (2004-2005). My professional experience is linked to that Council and to the company Tragsa S.A. over the years 2005-2008.
Simultaneously, in 2004, I began to work at the UBU as a part-time professor, changing to a full-time position in 2008 and Assistant Professor since 2016. Currently, I hold the position of Full Professor in the Area of Mechanics of Continuous Media and Theory of Structures. Over my more than 18 years as a university professor, I have taught more than 3,500 hours of lessons in different courses. I have supervised a large number of Degree and Master Theses and, since 2013, I have been Head of the Teaching Innovation Group "Transition from High School to the University". Between 2012 and March 2019, I held the academic position of Secretary of the Civil Engineering Department.
I am the Coordinator of the Erasmus Agreement with the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal, since 2005) and of the Erasmus Agreement with the University of Padua (Italy, since 2017), where I spent a postdoctoral research stay in 2021 and I taught the course of Recycling and Reuse of Raw Materials in the Master of Environmental Engineering. I am also member of the PhD School of the University of Padua since 2018 and maintain close collaboration with professors from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), with whom I have co-authored several research articles and conference communications.
I am the Head of the Research Group SUCONS of the UBU and a member of the Consolidated Research Unit UIC-231 of the Junta de Castilla y León. The main research topic of the SUCONS group is the re-use of by-products in building and civil engineering applications. The SUCONS group is a member of the national excellence network BIA2017-90838-REDT (Recycled concrete based on alternative raw materials for a circular economy) and a corporate member of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), where SUCONS researchers form part of some technical committees related with hydraulic and asphalt concretes.
I have co-authored mre than 60 articles indexed in JCR (WoS) between 2011 and 2024 (most of them Q1 and Q2), and I am a co-author of five book chapters, some teaching innovation articles, and 9 patents. I have supervised the Doctoral Thesis of Dr. Marta Skaf (2016), related to the use of steel slag in bituminous mixtures, and the Doctoral Thesis of Dr. Aratz García-Llona (2020), with International and Industrial mention, related to the simulation of siderurgic fiber-reinforced concrete, in collaboration with TECNALIA Research&Innovation and the Doctoral Thesis of Dr. Víctor Revilla-Cuesta (2021), about Self-Compacting Concrete with RCA, who hold a Ministry scholarship FPU.
I have participated in 20 research projects/contracts, mostly projects related to investigations in new materials, structures, and the reuse of waste in construction. I have likewise presented oral communications at several international conferences and I have over 40 publications in conference proceedings.