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CV

Education

  1. PhD in Industrial Engineering

    Polytechnique Montréal and Universitat Politècnica de València (cotutelle) · ongoing

    Supervised by Nadia Lahrichi.

  2. Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering

    Universitat Politècnica de València · 2020

  3. Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering

    Universitat Politècnica de València · 2018

    Double degree with the École Centrale de Lyon (2016–2018). Thesis: “Optimisation de l’étude d’un stylet de gravure à micro-percussion”.

Experience

  1. Senior research technician

    Universitat Politècnica de València · Nov 2023 – present

  2. Visiting predoctoral fellow

    Politecnico di Milano · Jan – Jul 2023

    Collaboration with Andrea Matta on the automatic generation of digital twins, applied to a surgical sterilisation centre in a hospital in Spain.

  3. Graduate research intern

    Polytechnique Montréal · Feb 2020 – May 2021

    Modelling of hospital systems with discrete event simulation, in Nadia Lahrichi’s team.

  4. Junior consultant

    In Extenso Innovation Croissance, Lyon · May – Aug 2018

    Market studies in ICT and processes for start-ups, laboratories and SMEs, and studies in industrial technologies.

Awards

  1. Research Excellence Award, Emerging Researcher

    4th Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 3 to 5 March 2025

    Recognition as an emerging researcher.

  2. Best Paper, Logistics and Operations track

    3rd Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 29 February to 1 March 2024

    For “Insights from a review of hospital bed management modelling”.

  3. Francis Lebœuf Award for the best study project

    École Centrale de Lyon · Sep 2017

    Among more than 80 projects of the 2016 intake, for “Une chaudière antique pour les bains”.

Funding

  1. ACIF predoctoral contract

    Universitat Politècnica de València · since November 2023

    Co-funded by the Conselleria of Education, Universities and Employment (CIACIF/2022/248), for the project “Planning and scheduling of operations in hospitals”.

Committees and organisation

  1. Organising and scientific committee

    1st International Congress on Technology and Management (CITYM) and 5th Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 2026

    Scientific handling of contributions, session coordination, proceedings editing and certificates. 140 h.

  2. Local organising committee and discussant

    4th Conference in Business Research & Management, “The AI Era” · UPV, 7 and 8 May 2026

  3. Organising committee

    3rd International Congress on Innovation, Economy and Business (CIECEM) · virtual, 22 and 23 April 2026

  4. Organising committee and scientific committee secretary

    4th Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 3 to 5 March 2025

    Review of submissions, registrations, session coordination and speaker support. 100 h.

  5. Scientific committee

    1st Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 2022

Peer review

  1. Manuscript reviewer

    WPOM, Working Papers on Operations Management (Editorial UPV) · 2025

  2. Submissions reviewer

    4th Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 2025

  3. Submissions reviewer

    3rd Predoctoral Symposium of the Department of Business Organisation, UPV · 2024

Other talks

  1. Speaker

    International Summer Conference 2024, Decision Science Alliance and UPV · València, 6 and 7 June 2024

    “Empowering Human Decision Making in a Robotics & Data-Driven World”. My other talks are in Research.

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