Carlos is a researcher and teaching collaborator in the Department of Building Structures and Physics at the School of Architecture (ETSAM) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and researcher in the Research Group on Construction with Wood (GICM). He is currently developing his Doctoral Thesis entitled ‘Wooden reticular laminar structures in the era of industrialisation: elastic bending, carpentry joints and digital fabrication’, under the direction of Dr. Antonio José Lara, and framed in the R+D+i Project ‘Construction system for reticular laminar structures based on new high performance wood products and digital fabrication technology – GRIDADIGTION’ of which he is part as a researcher of the working team
He studied Architecture at ETSAM (UPM, 2020) with the Final Degree Project ‘CLT-concrete composite slab optimization’ (proposed with honors). In 2021, he completed the Master’s Degree in Architecture (MScArch) at ETSAM with the project ‘Urban Corridor’. During this period, he obtained a UPM grant to collaborate in the Department of Building Structures and Physics of the ETS Architecture in the project ‘Application of digital carpentry to the design of timber gridshells” under the direction of Dr. Antonio José Lara. In the following years (05/2021-05/2023) he was hired as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Mª Almudena Majano through the Grant for recruitment of research assistants and laboratory technicians co-financed by the European Social Fund through the Youth Employment Operational Programme and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI). During this time, it is of particular importance his training in the field of the design of laminated wood structures, computational design, parametric design, computational geometry of complex surfaces, carpentry joints and digital fabrication.
To date, his scientific production includes: five communications to international congresses; one article under review and another three in an advanced stage development. It is worth mentioning the participation as a member of the organizing committee of the III Ibero-Latin American Congress of Timber in Construction (CIMAD 2024). At the same time, he has had the opportunity to transfer part of the learning from the research as a collaborator in the course ‘Experimental Workshop II: Design and digital fabrication of timber structures’ of the fourth year of the Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture of the ETSA of Madrid (UPM) under the coordination of Professor Dr. Almudena Majano and Professor Dr. Antonio Lara. He is also currently participating in the Euro-European project Connect4C as a non-doctoral postgraduate researcher.
