The research activity has been developed in the Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) in the lines of Modeling, Simulation and Optimization applied to the industrial sector in the improvement of logistic processes of production and transport. I have been part of the research team in industrial engineering and architecture projects, National Research projects, regional projects, and European projects. In 2004-08, I was the Coordinator of the Emerging Research Group: LOGISIM: Modelatge i Simulació de Sistemes Logístics (recognized as consolidated since 2009). The simulation and optimization techniques and methods that I’ve developed  during my career have always been oriented to the resolution of real industrial problems related to the field of logistics (highly complex and critical systems for the competitiveness of our industrial sector), having achieved the transfer of knowledge to solutions and products that are currently in exploitation and used by different companies. The industrial confidentiality in both data and results has not allowed in many occasions to assess the innovation of the research results in scientific publications, contributions otherwise certified by the companies where the developed methods have been applied such as AENA, Boeing, Nortia, Swissport, ISDEFE or INTA among others. During last years I’ve been applying the analysis of causal models and the implementation of optimization algorithms for the design of Decision Support Tools for planning and scheduling activities. This knowledge has been applied to service sectors such as healthcare, airport management, ATM and lately UTM. I’ve participated as scientific advisor in two H2020 projects (EuroDRONE and INTERFACING) and also in the design of several commercial applications developed by the Aslogic company, and EBT (technology based company) participated by the UAB.

Phd Theses supervised: 4  
Total citations: 108 (scopus) / 113 (ResearchGate) / 218 (Google Scholar)  
Index h : 5 (scopus) / 6 (ResearchGate) / 8 (Google Scholar)  
In the period 2011-2020, I’ve been research team member of 10 European projects FP7 and H2020 (STREAM, FUPOL, Enhancing the transfer of Intelligent Transportation System innovations to the market, INNOCAST, INTERACTION, AGENT, PARTAKE, Newbits, EVOATM and ePilots), 3 projects financed by the ministry, IP of a competitive project funded by RecerCaixa and 4 agreements with private funding.  On top of the scientific publications enumerated in my curriculum, it is worth noting the recognition obtained in two of the contributions as 'best paper award', especially "A Constraint Programming Model with Time Uncertainty for Cooperative Flight Departures" at the ATM Seminar 2017, one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of air traffic management. I am co-founder of 2 spin-off companies, author of one patent and three RPI in industrial exploitation and member of a LogiSim Technology Transfer Center, accredited by CIDEM.

I have participated during last years in the curriculum development of  the Aeronautical Management bachelor, which I coordinated between 2010-2017. I have led the design and deployment of the Master in Aeronautical Management (coordinated by me 2005-2010) and the European Master Logistics and Supply Chain Management, jointly implemented with other 2 European universities, coordinated by me since its design stage in the period 2007-08 (Erasmus CD 134522-LLP-1-2007-1-ESERASMUS-ECDSP)