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PhD. in Computational Engineering with interest and experience in simulation-based engineering, numerical methods, biomimetics, mechanics of solids, design of materials, and wave propagation.

Courses & tutorials

• Advanced Mathematics for Engineers This is a repository with material for the course Advanced Mathematics for Engineers.

• Computational Modeling This is a repository with material for the course Computational Modeling (in Spanish).

• Continuum Mechanics This is a repository with material for the course Continuum Mechanics (in Spanish).

• Introducción a las redes neuronales informadas por la física. This is a repository with the material for the minicourse on Physics-Informed Neural Networkss (PINNs) in the third Colombian Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (MAPI-3).

• Introduction to the Finite Element Method This is a repository with material for the course Introduction to the Finite Element Method.

• Numerical Methods for PDEs This is a repository with material for the course Numerical Methods for PDE.

• Tutorial on Scientific Visualization Given in PyCon Colombia 2019

Development

• continuum_mechanics. Utilities for doing calculations in continuum mechanics.

• Pyrobo contains phrases from the Colombian film La Vendedora de Rosas by Víctor Gaviria

• SolidsPy. A simple finite element analysis code for 2D elasticity problems

Research

• Physics-informed neural networks to solve inverse problems in unbounded domains (2026).

• Comparative Analysis of Wave Scattering Numerical Modeling Using the Boundary Element Method and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (2026).

• Decoding street network morphologies and their correlation to travel mode choice (2025).

• Implicit Time-Marching for Lagrange Multiplier Formulation for Couple Stress Elastodynamics (2025).

• Implicit Time-Marching for Lagrange Multiplier Formulation for Couple Stress Elastodynamics (2025).

• Bioinspired SiC/Chitosan Impact Resistant Coatings (2024).

• Analysis of the directionality on periodic materials (2023).

• Variational principles and finite element Bloch analysis in couple stress elastodynamics (2021).

• Flipping a Computational Modeling Class: Strategies to Engage Students and Foster Active Learning (2020).

• A natural impact-resistant bicontinuous composite nanoparticle coating (2020).

• Finite element modeling of micropolar-based phononic crystals (2020).

• A General-Purpose Element-Based Approach to Compute Dispersion Relations in Periodic Materials with Existing Finite Element Codes (2019).

• Bandgap tuning in bioinspired helicoidal composites (2019).