I am associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. I work at the UPC research group on Discrete, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry. I did my PhD at Utrecht University, under the supervision of Marc van Kreveld. Before going to Utrecht for my PhD, I studied at the Computer Science Department of the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Research interests
I work mainly on Computational Geometry, an area between computer science and mathematics concerned with finding efficient algorithms for geometric problems (problems involving geometric objects, such as points, lines, or triangles). I have worked on several different areas of Computational and Combinatorial Geometry, and I am particularly interested in problems that are motivated from Geographic Information Science (GIS). That is, problems originated from GIS applications that can be formulated as geometric problems, and where tools from computational geometry can be applied. I am also interested in Graph Drawing, an area that studies algorithms to compute nice drawings of graphs (nice has to do with the idea of “aesthetically pleasant” drawings); it is a very interesting field related to information visualization, computational geometry and graph theory, among others.
For more information about my research, see my publications page.
PhD students
- Pilar Cano, co-supervised with P. Bose (defended in 2020)
- Guilermo Esteban, co-supervised with D. Orden and P. Bose (defended in 2024)
Organization of events
Recent events:
- 39th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Barcelona, 29-31 March 2023.
- Graph Drawing 2018, Barcelona, 26-28 September, 2018.
- Intensive Research Program on Discrete, Combinatorial and Computational Geometry, Bellaterra (Barcelona), April 16 – June 8, 2018.
Some other recent events I helped organize: EuroCG’16, GG Week 2016, 2nd AJMS Workshop, XVI EGC.
PC member
- 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024).
- 18th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS 2023).
- 15th Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium (LATIN 2022).
- 37th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2021).
- 32nd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2020).
- PC chair for XVIII Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (XVIII EGC).
- 35th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2019).
- 13th Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium (LATIN 2018).
- 33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), part of the Computational Geometry Week 2017.
- 26th International Computational Geometry Multimedia Exposition (CG:MME), part of the Computational Geometry Week 2017.
- XVII Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (XVII EGC).
- 28th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2016).
- 32nd European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2016).
- PC chair for 4th Computational Geometry Young Researchers Forum (CG:YRF), part of the Computational Geometry Week 2015.
- 2nd Young Researcher Workshop on Automata, Languages and Programming, part of ICALP 2015.
- XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (XVI EGC).
- 3rd Computational Geometry Young Researchers Forum (CG:YRF), part of the Computational Geometry Week 2014.
- 11th Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium (LATIN 2014).
- 30th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2014).
- 10th Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium (LATIN 2012).
Contact information
Departament de Matemàtiques
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Edifici Omega (office 438), Campus Nord
Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona
Spain
Telephone: +34 93 41 37704
Fax: + 34 93 41 37701
Email: myFirstName.myLastName@upc.edu
Directions to my office can be found here.