Technologist & innovation engineer · Prague, CZ
I develop new technology by connecting the layers most teams split apart: physical theory, mathematical models, multiphysics simulation, software and experimental validation. Medical devices, robots, energy harvesters, agricultural machines and smart materials, from first equations to a tested prototype.
Profile
I help companies turn physics into products. Mechanical engineer with a PhD from CEITEC, Brno University of Technology, and 20 years between research labs and industry.
My core is multiphysics modelling and simulation, mechanical vibrations, structural health monitoring, energy harvesting, structural optimisation and the mechanical behaviour of materials. I trained in computational mechanics and piezoelectric materials at UNICAMP, Brazil, co-founded the Experimental and Computational Mechanics Laboratory at UAM in Colombia, and was a researcher at the Institute of Physics of Materials, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Research stays in Spain, Denmark, Australia and Germany and 45 journal papers back the method. CPAP and ventilator systems, robots, orthopaedic devices and agricultural machines show the results.
Profiles
Publications, citations, project videos and professional history on the platforms where they are maintained.
How I work
New products fail at the hand-offs between theory, simulation, code and manufacturing. I work across all of them, so the physics in the first equations is still in the prototype that gets tested.
Understand the mechanism before modelling it.
Turn the physics into equations, then test designs virtually before building them.
ANSYS · LS-DYNA · COMSOL · Simulink
Turn models into tools and data into decisions.
Python · MATLAB · R
Choose how the product will be made, then prove it works.
SolidWorks · CATIA · SpaceClaim
Blog
Short articles on the technologies, methods and tools I use to turn physics into products. All posts →
Explore
Structured like a CV, with links to the evidence behind each line.
Industry
New product development, FEA consulting for clients in the US, Israel and Colombia, medical devices, robotics and EU project leadership.
Open →Academic
45 papers, 33 conference contributions, 4 patents, 5 funded MinCiencias grants and 11 theses supervised.
Open →Blog
Short articles on measurement, simulation, materials and devices, and how to use them in product development.
Open →Industrial & consulting experience
Product development and engineering innovation for industry: medical devices, robotics, simulation consulting in the US, Israel and Colombia, energy storage R&D and EU project leadership.
R&D of battery pack modules for the automotive industry: cell characterisation, electro-thermal test design, equivalent-circuit models, FEM electro-thermal models, MATLAB Simscape / Simulink battery models and data analysis in R.
Directed the development and validation of five AI-driven precision-agriculture use cases up to TRL 6, combining Copernicus Earth observation, EGNSS and machine learning with agricultural experts at FNC-Cenicafé for the Colombian coffee region.
R&D for clear-aligner treatment through FEA. Led reverse engineering and CAD of dental and anatomical models, finite element analysis of aligners and brackets with anatomical boundary conditions, and the development of new methods to predict orthodontic tooth movement from stress and displacement fields.
Evaluated reasoning produced by frontier AI models, identified failures and built detailed reasoning chains used to improve model training.
Technology watch, competitive intelligence, stakeholder requirements gathering and technical analysis of the existing gas refining systems.
Reverse engineering of dental models, finite element analysis of aligner–tooth interaction and planning of multi-stage models that include the teeth.
Led the development of ROBOLAB-S, a 6-axis desktop and industrial robot; Vital PEEP, a biomedical PEEP valve; SpringLab, a desktop spring-forming machine; and Ort3D, an additively manufactured orthopaedic prosthesis.
Design and evaluation of a piezoelectric displacement actuator for an air micro-pump: modal, harmonic and electromechanical analysis to maximise output displacement.
A finite element methodology for designing mattresses: reverse engineering, STL-to-CAD preparation, material characterisation and models in SpaceClaim and ANSYS.
Product development, validation, compliance with medical standards and budget management for a non-invasive CPAP ventilation system. INVIMA health registration, Resolution 2021058033 (23 Dec 2021), followed by a clinical study and a patent.
Led team 1 of a MinCiencias-funded project to build and validate low-cost, modular mechanical ventilation equipment for intensive care during COVID-19.
Paid advisory calls for investors and consultancies on batteries, simulation and engineering R&D.
Research, teaching & academic service
Computational and experimental mechanics: thin films, fracture and fatigue, piezoelectric structural health monitoring, energy harvesting and biosystems.
R+D+I projects and prototypes: multiphysics FEA, vibrations, experimental modal analysis, video magnification, structural health monitoring and material characterisation. Grant writing, budgets and team leadership.
Thesis: Estimation of mechanical properties of thin films using numerical modelling of experimental tests. Supervisor: doc. Ing. Pavel Hutař, Ph.D.
Linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics and FEA of materials and structures in the Multiscale Modelling and High Cycle Fatigue groups.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with Dr. Benoit Merle and Prof. Mathias Göken.
Undergraduate: Finite Element Method, Mechanics of Materials I and II, Programming. Master's: FEA Applied to Biological Systems; FEM for Engineering Applications. Earlier instructor 2007–2008 and 2010–2012.
Numerical methods applied to limit state analysis.
Limit analysis of rigid plastic structures (Larsen & Nielsen Fonden grant).
Debonding analysis of piezo-transducers in smart structures (Santander mobility scholarship).
Numerical and experimental analysis of debonding effects on the electric response of piezoelectric sensors (CAPES scholarship). Teaching assistant in Mechanical Vibrations.
Thesis on the thermo-elastic effect as a vibration source in an SKF bearing, solved by FEM (grade 5/5).
Battery Technologies (ASU), Data Science (Johns Hopkins), Google AI Essentials.
Patents · Colombia (SIC)
Commercialised as AirFlife, the first Colombian CPAP system with INVIMA health registration. Designed and developed in Manizales during COVID-19, clinically tested at SES Hospital Universitario de Caldas and recognised with the Caldas Governorate health innovation award in 2025.
Funded research grants
A handheld electronic probe that measures periodontal pocket depth with controlled force, developed with MSc theses on the device and its automated test bench.
Resulted in the SPERANTA ventilator, designed, built and validated on the bench and in a preclinical trial.
Experimental modal analysis of coffee fruits at different ripening stages, to find excitation frequencies that detach ripe fruits and leave unripe ones on the branch.
A piezo-actuated device bonded to a tooth measures electromechanical impedance at high frequency to detect changes in the density of the supporting bone.
Keynote · Numerical modelling approach for the assessment of mechanical properties in microstructures. AMDM, Manizales, 2018. Event
Invited speaker · Piezo-actuated device for bio-structural monitoring. NME 2019, Beijing. Speaker page
Speaker · Roles in R&D&I: "The Developer". Innovation Month, S.E.S. Hospital Universitario de Caldas, 2021.
PLOS ONE · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · Measurement · Materials · Remote Sensing · Entropy · Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures · Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology · Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics · Journal of Applied Polymer Science · International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration · Vibration · Coffee Science · DYNA, and others (2010–2021).
Health innovation award, Caldas Governorate, for AirFlife (2025) · Recognition as a project driving the development of Manizales–Caldas (2021) · Erasmus+ traineeship, FAU Erlangen (2018) · PhD scholarship, Brno University of Technology / CEITEC · Larsen & Nielsen Fonden grant, SDU Denmark (2012) · Santander mobility scholarship, Madrid (2009) · CAPES MSc scholarship, Brazil (2008–2010) · UNICAMP teaching scholarship (2009).
International Association of Advanced Materials (2017–2022) · Asian Council of Science Editors (2014–2015) · Editorial board, Computer Simulation in Application (2018).
Numerical limit analysis of rigid plastic structures. University of Southern Denmark, 2012. DOI
Blog
Measurement, simulation, materials and devices: what is new, what works in practice and how to use it in product development.
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