Research Projects

Our group's research is funded by competitive national grants from ANID (Chile). Each project below has its own page with its goals, approach and results.

We're recruiting PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers. PhD applicants may be Chilean or international, and must win an ANID doctoral scholarship to join. Postdoctoral applicants must be Chilean nationals under ANID provisions. Read about the opportunities or download the brochure.

Current projects

Building modeled with neural elements and foundation macro-elements

High-Fidelity Performance-Based Seismic Design of Structures Driven by Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing
FONDECYT Regular 1261870 · ANID · Principal Investigator · 2026–

Neural macro-elements trained on high-fidelity simulations, combined with HPC, to make performance-based seismic design fast enough to iterate on.

Open positions: PhD students and postdocs.

Mass concrete foundation model

Prediction and Mitigation of Early-Age Cracking in Mass Concrete
FONDEF IDeA I+D ID26I10834 · ANID · Director · 2026–2028

Coupled thermo-mechanical simulation and on-site monitoring to predict, and prevent, early-age thermal cracking in large concrete elements.

Open positions: PhD students and postdocs.

Past projects

Damage in a building model: fixed-base vs domain reduction method

Quantification of Incremental Model Uncertainty in Earthquake Performance Assessment through Multi-Fidelity Simulation and Bayesian Inference
FONDECYT de Iniciación 11220530 · ANID · Principal Investigator · 2022–2025 · completed

How much do modeling simplifications change the predicted seismic response of buildings? High-fidelity simulations of San Ramón Fault earthquakes in Santiago.