In December 2015, an UNESCO resolution established February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science to recognize the critical role played by women and girls in science and technology. According to data from this international body, less than 30% of scientific researchers in ...

Anna Ramon, a member of Geomechanics group at CIMNE, leads ANHY_RISK since September 2019. The project is about risk prediction and safe design in anhydritic rocks. Experience gained during the analysis of swelling phenomena which damaged Lilla tunnel and Pont de Candí Bridge in Spain, sho...

CIMNE facilities located at UPC North Campus (C1 Building) have obtained the positive evaluation report from the Ascó-Vandellós II Nuclear Association (ANAV). It certifies that CIMNE has implemented a quality system succesfully evaluated in accordance with the requirements of the UNE 7...

The 14th World Congress in Computational Mechanics & ECCOMAS Congress took from January 11th to 15th, 2021. The Opening Session was introduced by the presidents of both scientific societies organizers of the event, Prof. Antonio Huerta (IACM) and Michał Kleiber (ECCOMAS), followed by Prof. ...

CIMNE closed 2020 with a total of 79,706 citations registered by Google Scholar, an h-index of 131 and an i10 Index of 1014. During 2020, the tool assigns 6,557 citations to CIMNE researchers' publications, an 8% increase compared to 2019 (6,032 citations registered). In addition, for the fifth ...

CIMNE celebrated on 21st December 2020 its traditional Christmas Toast. In this occasion, the event was held online due to Covid crisis. Despite this, the virtual event brought together some hundred participants, including representatives of the governing institutions of CIMNE, researchers and admin...