Short CV

Santiago Arias Calderón graduated in Aerospace Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2004. He spent his final undergraduate year at the Centrospazio Laboratory, Università di Pisa, Italy. In 2005, he joined the faculty at Barcelona-Tech University (UPC), being involved in teaching and research tasks ever since. In 2009, he conducted research at the Institut de Mécanique de Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), France, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to study multi-phase flows in microgravity conditions for aerospace applications. He earned his Ph.D. in 2011 for UPC. His research focuses on experimental and numerical techniques for analysing two-phase flows in microgravity conditions. More recently, S. Arias has developed interest in studying the potential of thermal winds for wind energy generation, using CFD models to simulate the lower atmospheric boundary layers.