Teaching staff

MARIA ASUNCION CANTERA LOPEZ DE SILANES

Knowledge area

Mechanical Engineering

Department

Mechanical Engineering

Centre

Faculty of Engineering - Vitoria-Gasteiz

Electronic mail

asun.cantera@ehu.eus

Master and Degree in Industrial Engineering, specializing in Mechanics (1994) from the University of Navarra, Campus Donostia-San Sebastián and PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2014) from the UPV/EHU. The doctoral thesis "Análisis del comportamiento mecánico de laminados cruzados biestables", received the prize for the best doctoral thesis awarded by the Fundación Iberoamericana de Ingeniería Mecánica in 2015.



After practicing her profession in various industries (Fundial, Uribesalgo, Linausa, etc) since 2004 she has been working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculties of Engineering Gipuzkoa and Vitoria-Gasteiz. Associate Professor since 2014



She is a member of the UPV/EHU Research Group "Mechanics of Materials, MECMAT". Academic stays in foreign research centers in USA (Composite and Intelligent Materials Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Department), UK (Bristol Composites Institute, University of Bristol), France, ISABTP (Institut Supérieur Aquitaine du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics).



LANGUAGES: C1: Spanish, Basque, English, B1: French.



Co-author of numerous indexed scientific articles and conference papers. Researcher ID B-5623-2015; Orcid Code http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-2510