
Profile
I obtained my PhD in 2009 from UPC-BarcelonaTech. During this period I received three awards from the European Association for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, the Spanish Association for Computational Methods in Engineering and the publisher Birkhauser-Verlag for the best thesis in Spain and Europe. In 2009 I moved to Swansea, to work in the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering as a post-doctoral research assistant. I became a lecturer in 2012, then promoted to senior lecturer in 2015, to associate professor in 2016 and to full professor in 2021. Since then, I have received a number of honours and awards from the publisher EMERALD, SIAM and the Welsh government.
I am the President of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics since 2019 and I also hold a number of positions in the European Association for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and the International Association for Computational Mechanics.
Since 2022 I am Chief Editor of the European Journal of Computational Mechanics and external examiner for Cranfield University.
I am a fellow member of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy), fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and chartered mathematician.
Area of Expertise
- Computational Engineering
- High-order Finite Elements
- Numerical Methods
- Reduced Order Modelling
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computational Electromagnetics
- Computer Aided Design
- Mesh generation
Projects
Specialist Areas
Events
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INNFM Lecture: Bridging Scales in Polymeric Fluids: From Mesoscopic Dynamics to Thermodynamics-Informed Machine Learning
Time: 18 Septembe, 11:00 Location: Bay Campus, ESRI001 Contact Information: Bjornar Sandnes (b.sandnes@swansea.ac.uk) Overview of the Event: The Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (INNFM) and the Complex Fluids Research Group are pleased to invite colleagues and students to the INNFM Lecture 2026, delivered by Professor Marco Ellero of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), as…
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Professor Rubén Sevilla Receives Inaugural IACM Simo–Ladyzhenskaya Award
Time: 19 to 24 July 2026 Overview of the Event: WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 is expected to be one of the largest congresses in the field of computational mechanics and computational methods in applied sciences and engineering. It is anticipated to attract a diverse and global audience from academia, government, and industry, encompassing all areas of engineering…
