Education and awards
 
 
Personal details
 
  Josep Maria Font Llagunes
Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies at Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering
Director of the Biomechanical Engineering Group
Director of the Biomechanics Division at Biomedical Engineering Research Centre
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC)
 
 



Education

 
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2008)
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      Supervisor: Dr. József Kövecses
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Centre for Intelligent Machines
    McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
     
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2003-2007)
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      Supervisor: Dr. Joaquim A. Batlle
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, Spain
     
  • Master in Biomedical Engineering (2002-2004)
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      Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (CREB)
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
     
  • 5-year Degree in Industrial Engineering, major in Mechanical Engineering (1997-2002)
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      Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
     
     
    Awards and accomplishments
     
  • Best basic research paper Award for the paper entitled "Estimación de los parámetros del modelo de contacto pie-suelo en la marcha humana". Student: Rosa Pàmies Vilà.
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      XIX Congreso Nacional de Ingeniería Mecánica, Castelló de la Plana, Spain.
     
  • Fundación Universia-UPC Award 2011 for the direction of the best Master's Thesis at UPC. Student: Guillermo Arroyo Eremian.
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  • National Accreditation for Associate Professor ("Profesor Titular de Universidad") issued by the "Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación" (ANECA).
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  • Period of five years of teaching (09/2004-08/2009) recognized by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
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  • Period of six years of research (01/2004-12/2009) recognized by the "Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya" (AQU Catalunya).
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  • Mobility Scholarship from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) to pursue postdoctoral research at McGill University (2007-2008).
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  • FI Doctoral Scholarship from the Catalan Government (2004).
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  • "Fundació Rafael Escolà" University Excellence Award (2003)
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      Award given to the student with the best academic results of Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering degrees of Catalonia and the Valencian Country (Spain).
     
  • "Caixa Manresa" University Award to the best University students of Catalonia during the years 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
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