People

FORMER STUDENTS

Name	Graduated in	Worked on
Bruno Rebolledo Gutiérrez, M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)	2022	Meshfree and virtual element methods, computational solid mechanics. Master’s Thesis: “Desarrollo de un método de integración nodal en mallas tetraédricas utilizando la descomposición del elemento virtual“
Sebastián Luza Vega, M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)	2022	Polygonal mesh generation, virtual element method, computational solid mechanics. Master’s Thesis: “Desarrollo de una plataforma interactiva de mallado y remallado de mallas poligonales para su uso en un esquema de integración nodal basado en el método del elemento virtual“
Catalina Álvarez Inostroza, M.Sc., B.Sc. (Computer Sciences) B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)	2018	Polyhedral and virtual element methods, computational solid mechanics, mesh generation. Master’s Thesis: “Virtual element method for linear elasticity problems in modifiable meshes“
Philip Kobrich Echavarri, B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)	2017	Meshfree methods. Final engineering report: “Esquema numérico de proyección nodal para la placa de Reissner-Mindlin utilizando métodos sin malla“
Rubén Torres Verdugo, B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)	2016	Meshfree methods, computational solid mechanics. Final engineering report: “Paralelización de algoritmo numérico para resolución de problemas en mecánica de sólidos“
Camila Velásquez Salinas, B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)	2015	Isogeometric analysis, computational structural mechanics Final engineering report: “Cálculo numérico de los modos de vibración en un panel compuesto tipo panal de abeja mediante análisis isogeométrico“

VISITING RESEARCHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Visited in	Current Affiliation
Edoardo Artioli, Visiting Professor	2018	Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Natarajan Sukumar, Visiting Professor	2014	Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA.
Christian J. Cyron, Visiting Researcher	2013	Professor, Institute of Continuum and Materials Mechanics, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany.
Jack S. Hale, Visiting Researcher	2012	Research Associate, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Dimitrios Sfyris, Visiting Researcher	2012	Principal Researcher, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.

COLLABORATORS

• Edoardo Artioli, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
• Stéphane P.A. Bordas, Professor, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
• Roger Bustamante, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
• Christian J. Cyron, Professor, Institute of Continuum and Materials Mechanics, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany.
• Jack S. Hale, Research Associate, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
• Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
• Viviana Meruane, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
• Sundararajan Natarajan, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India.
• K. R. Rajagopal, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA.
• Alessandro Russo, Professor, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
• Dimitrios Sfyris, Principal Researcher, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.
• N. Sukumar, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA.