Santiago Hernandez

Dr. Santiago Hernandez is a Full Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Coruna. He has been visiting researcher in the University of Southampton (UK) and the University of California in Santa Barbara (USA). He has been supervisor of thirteen PhD thesis and has been the leader of more than forty research projects in aircraft and aerospace engineering funded by the UE or the Spanish government, including several collaborations with NASA and AIRBUS, contributing extensively in the A380, A350, A340, A30X and A320neo programmes. He has two patents in collaboration with AIRBUS, has authored five books and participated with a chapter in other four books. He is and has been Associated Editor of several scientific Journals including the AIAA Journal of Aircraft and the International Journal of Aerospace Engineering and has been Guess Editor of six special issues of the Journal on Advances in Engineering Software (Elsevier). He is the author of more than three hundred papers and publications in international conferences and has organized and lectured in courses in many European countries, Asia and America. He was the designer and founder of two wind tunnels of the University of Coruna and is the Director of the Master on Materials and Structures for Aerospace Engineering in his university. He has served as Adviser in Scientific and Academic Committees of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Universities and was the President of the Selection Committee of Full Professors in the Politecnico di Milano and member of the Selection Committee of Associate Professors in the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is a Fellow of ASCE and IABSE and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.

Contact Santiago at [email protected]