Santiago Badia is a Full Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), holding an adjoint researcher position at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). He leads the Large Scale Scientific Computing (LSSC) group at CIMNE, focusing on finite element methods, numerical analysis, and high-performance computing. His research emphasizes fluid dynamics, multiphysics problems, and scalable solvers for large-scale systems. Previously, he worked at Politecnico di Milano and Sandia National Labs. He developed the FEMPAR software framework, a parallel finite element tool for PDE simulations, achieving landmark scalability (e.g., 60 billion unknowns on 458,672 cores). FEMPAR is recognized in the High-Q Club of European codes. His expertise includes discontinuous Galerkin methods, XFEM, and domain decomposition preconditioners. Research interests span metal additive manufacturing, superconductor devices, and nuclear engineering applications. Awards include FEMPAR's High-Q Club inclusion. He advises PhD and MSc students (e.g., Jesus Bonilla, Eric Neiva, Marc Olm) and has open positions in postdoc/PhD levels. His team includes researchers like Javier Principe and Alberto Martín. Ongoing projects involve advancing parallel algorithms, multiphysics simulations, and software scalability for exascale computing.








