Antonio Huerta Cerezuela

Dr. Antonio Huerta Cerezuela is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Director of ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) since September 2015, and President of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) from 2018 to 2022.

Antonio Huerta holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports in Barcelona (1983) and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University (USA) (1987). His research focuses on the development of numerical methods to solve scientific and engineering problems governed by the laws of mechanics, using advanced mathematical models and numerical solutions that combine concepts, methods, and principles that are often interdisciplinary in nature and span various fields of mechanics, mathematics, and computer science, among others.

Throughout his career, he has served as a CIRIT fellow (1983–84), a research assistant (1984–86), and a research fellow (1986–87) at Northwestern University (U.S.); assistant professor (1987–89) and associate professor (1989–93) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia; visiting scientist, Ispra, Commission of the European Communities, 1990; visiting professor at École Centrale de Nantes, 2002, 2004–07, 2012, 2014–2017; Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya since 1993; Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics III at the UPC (May 1998 – January 2004); Dean of the School of Civil Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (May 2007 – October 2012); Visiting Professor at the Centre for Civil and Computational Engineering at Swansea University (December 2012–November 2015); and Founding Academic Director of the Industrial Doctoral Program of the Government of Catalonia (2012–2016).

Among the honors and awards received by Antonio Huerta are: an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège (2016) and from the École Centrale de Nantes (2017); the European Community’s Prandtl Medal for computational methods in applied sciences, 2008; Visiting Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France, 2003; election as a member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2002; the Thomas A. Jaeger Award, International Association Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, 1989; and Royal E. Cabell Fellowship, Northwestern University, USA, 1986.

He has been an editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (John Wiley & Sons) since 2015, and has been an associate editor of Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences (SpringerOpen Journal) since 2013, of the Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) since 2011, and of the European Journal of Computational Mechanics (Taylor & Francis) from 2006 to 2014.