Jorge Ramirez Garcia

Jorge Ramirez Garcia is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Environmental Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), where he has held a University Professor position since 2019 and was promoted to his current role in June 2023. He is a member of the Polymers, Characterization and Applications research group since February 2010.

His research spans polymer science, rheology, and chemical engineering education with expertise in entangled polymer dynamics, theoretical modeling, and computational methods. Key research areas include:

• Polymer rheology and characterization
• Development of rheological software tools
• Chemical engineering education technology
• Entangled polymer dynamics modeling
• Materials science applications

Ramirez Garcia's recent scholarly output shows strong focus on educational technology for chemical engineering and advanced polymer modeling. His 2023 work on Jupyter Notebooks for engineering education demonstrates practical applications of computational methods in teaching balances, reactors, and fluid separation. The RepTate software suite represents his major contribution to rheological data analysis, featured prominently in the Journal of Rheology and Scilight.

His scientific recognition includes:

• RepTate software featured on Journal of Rheology main website
• Scilight feature article highlighting RepTate
• Supervision of Ameya Rao who won the 2022 Frank J. Padden Jr. Award

Ramirez Garcia actively mentors students including Ameya Rao and Andrés R. Tejedor, with collaborative work presented at major conferences like the American Chemical Society March Meeting and International Congress on Rheology. His research involves significant international collaboration, particularly with MIT's Brad Olsen group. The RepTate software project serves as his primary research infrastructure, continuously evolving with new theories and applications for polymer characterization.