Personal information

Nationality: Spanish

Date of birth: 29-03-1980

Gender: Male

Work experience

Dates August 2009 -> TODAY

Systems Engineer – Thermal and Mechanics in the Astroparticle group of the Physics Dept. in Albanova University Center (Stockholm). Main activities: analysis, definition, design, testing and implementation of the complete cooling system for the PoGOLite experiment, a stratospheric balloon-borne experiment. Managing duties and responsibilities: cooling system development planning within the project, system requirements and components definition, search of resellers, assessing and ordering components, costs... Software used: Matlab (analytical models), Solidworks (CAD), CosmosWorks (FEA).

Dates July 2006 – July 2007

Mechanical Engineer in the R+D Machines Department (Cornellá de Llobregat – Spain)
Main activities and responsibilities: development of parts and mechanisms with Solidworks with secondary tasks in the department’s management
with PDMworks; use of Cosmosworks and Cosmosmotion and optimization of assemblies. Solidworks teaching to co-workers and market investigation. Company: Mecalux SA

Dates November 2006 – March 2007

Occupation held Solidworks advanced course teacher (Barcelona – Spain). Main activity: teacher of Solidworks for junior and senior engineers.
Name of the institution: Fundació CIM.

Dates July 2005 – December 2005

Occupation held: Solidworks teacher and Catia v5 manual developer (Barcelona – Spain)
Main activities: teacher of Solidworks for engineering students and development of the new manual for the Catia v5 courses. Name of the institution: Fundació CIM.

Education and training

Dates 2007 - 2010

MSc in Aerospace Engineering (Stockholm – Sweden). Basic curriculum: Aircraft performance, Mathematical modelling, Lightweight structures, Cooling of electronics,Optimization. Space branch courses: Rocket science, Rocket Propulsion, Space physics, Space environment and spacecraft
engineering, Spacecraft dynamics. Degree thesis: Cooling system for PoGOLite, a stratospheric balloon-borne experiment. Software used: Matlab (analytical models), Solidworks (CAD), CosmosWorks and FloWorks (FEA), Comsol. Name of the educational institution: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Stockholm).

Dates January 2009 -> TODAY

Activity Member of the REXUS team Suaineadh (within ESA, DLR and SNSB): “Controlled deployment of a space web”. Official website: www.suaineadh.co.nr/. Main activities
and responsibilities: environmental conditions, thermal analysis of the space web, testing, reaction wheel mechanical design, preliminary assessment for the RW electronics and risks management. Name of the institution: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – Glasgow University (GU)

Dates August 2008

Workshop: “System engineering and technology for space missions” (ESA – ESTEC, The Netherlands)
Description Mission analysis and design, system engineering and technology as well as enhancement of the formal technical education to facilitate the understanding of how the space sector operates. Name of the institution: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA - ESTEC).

Dates February 2007 – June 2007

Title of qualification awarded: Postgraduate in Managing and development of projects in engineering (Barcelona – Spain). Principal subjects: project managing, departments' conflicts, innovation, methods of product optimization, leadership, industrial property, patents. Name of the institution: Fundació CIM.

Dates September 2001 – June 2006

Degree BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Barcelona – Spain).  Branch: Mechanical design. Training activity: Calibration, verification and technical support of electronic measurement devices at Tecno y
Medida SL in Barcelona – Spain. Bachelor’s thesis 1: Analysis and design of a power train aided sidecar for bicycles. Bachelor’s thesis 2: planning, manufacturing and testing of the mechanical parts and mechanisms in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) as Erasmus in Lahti Polytechnic University (LAMK, Finland). Name of the educational institution: Technical School of Engineering of Barcelona (EUETIB – UPC).

Personal skills

Mother tongues: Catalan; Spanish
Other languages: Proficient in English, Basics in Swedish

Organisational skills: Engineering projects planning and managing, ECSS standards (ESA), Risks managing.

Computer skills: Solidworks, Cosmosworks, Cosmosmotion, Floworks; Catia v5; Matlab, MS Project.

Licence(s): European driver license category B.

Other courses, activities and associations

Member of KTH-Racing (2007/08 season): in charge of planning the steering system. Member of Flygtekniska Föreningen (Swedish Aeronautical Association).
Member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics).