Academic Background
Education
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2017–2021
Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences
University of Liège, Belgium
Thesis: Optimal Inspection and Maintenance Planning for Deteriorating Structures via Markov Decision Processes and Deep Reinforcement Learning
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2015–2017
European Master in Advanced Ship Design and Offshore Structures
University of Liège, Belgium · École Centrale de Nantes, France
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2014–2015
M.Sc. in Sustainable Engineering: Offshore Renewable Energy
University of Strathclyde, UK
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2010–2014
B.Eng. in Maritime Engineering
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Academic Positions
Research Experience
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2025–present
Senior Researcher
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Develop hierarchical MARL and safe-RL methods for risk-informed infrastructure management. Supervision of PhD/MSc researchers.
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2023–2025
Postdoctoral Researcher
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Implemented a city-scale building retrofit planning tool (DE-CIST, Municipality of Rotterdam; funded by Google).
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2023
Postdoctoral Researcher
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Released an open-source environment to benchmark scalability in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning.
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2021–2023
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Liège, Belgium
Built virtual sensing for wind-farm monitoring and numerical models for structural integrity of offshore wind turbines.
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2019–2020
Visiting Scholar
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Formulated efficient Bayesian updating models for systems with correlated components (Advisor: K. G. Papakonstantinou).
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2017–2021
Research Engineer
University of Liège, Belgium
Developed reinforcement-learning decision-support algorithms for inspection and maintenance optimization of offshore wind farms.
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2016
Visiting Scholar
University of Michigan, USA
Validated an analytical model for ship dynamic transversal instability using computational fluid dynamics (Advisor: A. Troesch).
Funding
Grants & Funding
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2020–2025
PhairywinD (Co-PI) · Belgian Energy Transition Fund (FPS Economy) · €3.9M
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2020–2025
MAXWind (Co-PI) · Belgian Energy Transition Fund (FPS Economy) · €2.2M
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2023
Tailwind (Co-PI) · Horizon Europe
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2017–2021
Personal Grant · National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FRIA), Belgium
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2015–2017
EMShip Scholarship · University of Liège, Belgium
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2014–2015
Offshore Renewable Energy Britannia · University of Strathclyde, UK
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2010–2015
Grant for Undergraduate Studies · Ministry of Education, Spain
Recognition
Awards & Honors
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2025
Top Cited Paper · Structural Safety Journal
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2024
Selected Contribution · GNI Symposium & Expo on AI for the Built World
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2021
Paper of the Month (Infrastructure) · BAM Abteilung Bauwerkssicherheit, Germany
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2017
Best Master Thesis Award · EMShip, University of Liège
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2015
Graduated with Distinction · University of Strathclyde, UK
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2014
Highest Grade in Dissertation (10/10) · Polytechnic University of Madrid
Community
Service & Leadership
Organization
- WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 — Co-organized Mini-Symposium "Optimization under Uncertainty"
- EMI Conference 2023–2025 — Co-organized Mini-Symposium "Probabilistic assessment, data-driven inference, and optimization for decision-making under uncertainty"
- Wind Energy Science Conference 2023 — Co-organized Mini-Symposium "Structural integrity assessment and life cycle management of wind farms"
Reviewer
- Reliability Engineering & System Safety (RESS)
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Analysis, ASCE
Affiliations
Professional Memberships
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2025–present
Member, European Talent Academy (ETA) · Technical University of Munich
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2021–present
Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
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2020–present
Member, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE)
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2017–present
Member, European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)
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2015–present
Associate Member, Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)
Technical