Antonio Vernet Peña
Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and Director of the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Computational Fluid Mechanics (URV–UNIR). He began his academic career at URV in 1993 and, after defending his doctoral thesis in 1997 and completing a postdoctoral stay at the Boundary Wind Tunnel Laboratory of the University of Western Ontario (Canada), he obtained a permanent Associate Professor position in 2002. As of June 2025, he holds the ANECA accreditation as Full Professor.
He is a member of the ECoMMFiT and IU-RESCAT research groups, and his research activity focuses on data analysis, pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning applied to fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and environmental and biomedical flows. He has carried out significant work in particle image velocimetry (PIV), including a patent on novel tracer particles, and more recently has oriented his research toward machine learning applications in health and the environment, contributing to the development of tools with recognized social impact.
He has served as principal investigator on several competitive national research projects and has led numerous technology transfer projects. He is co-author of 57 JCR-indexed articles, with an h-index of 19 according to Scopus, has co-supervised multiple doctoral theses, holds four research six-year periods (sexennis) and six teaching five-year periods (quinquennis), and has held several relevant academic management positions at URV.
