About me

Short bio
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a member of the ViRVIG research group. My main research interests focus on improving virtual natural scenes through real data analysis, procedural algorithms, simulation of natural phenomena and complex interactions between animated characters and the environment. I earned my PhD in Computing from UPC in 2018 under the supervision of Carlos Andújar and Antonio Chica. My thesis focused on creating realistic natural scenarios, leveraging machine learning and real-world data to enhance procedural and example-based modeling algorithms. Following that, I joined the CNRS - LIRIS laboratory in Lyon as a postdoctoral researcher within the ORIGAMI team. I actively publish in leading journals and conferences in Computer Graphics. I served as Program Chair of the Spanish Conference on Computer Graphics in 2025, and as Conference Chair of the Symposium on Computer Animation 2026.
Positions
  • 2025-present: Associate Professor,Computer Science department, UPC
  • 2024-2025: Assistant Professor,Computer Science department, UPC
  • 2022-2024: Maria Zambrano research fellow, ViRVIG research group, UPC
  • 2021-2022: Part-time instructor, UPC and UdG
  • 2018-2020: Postdoctoral researcher, GEOMOD team at LIRIS (CNRS, Université de Lyon)
  • 2014-2018: PhD Student and Teaching assistant, Barcelona School of Informatics
  • 2009-2011: Research assistant, MOVING research group (now ViRVIG)
  • 2007-2009: Teacher, extracurricular programming course at Sagrat Cor Diputació high school
Education
  • 2014-2018: PhD in Computing, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
  • 2012-2014: master in Innovation and Research in Informatics, Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB)
  • 2012: graduate exchange student during the spring semester at Georgia Institute of Technology (GeorgiaTech)
  • 2006-2011: degree in Informatics Engineering (Computer Science), Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB)
Languages
  • Catalan: native
  • Spanish: native
  • English: fluent
  • French: good
  • Japanese: learning
Miscellaneous
  • Committee member of 100 Cims, an all-year round activity organized by the catalan mountaineering clubs federation (FEEC)
  • Former member and secretary of VGAFIB, the Video Games Association of Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona, a students association dedicated to game development