Enrique Alarcón#
Membership Number: | 2111 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2001 |
Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1977 Full Professor at the Madrid University School of Industrial Engineering
Fields of Scholarship
- Applied mathematical modelling
- Safety of tunnels in case of fire
- Seismic engineering and structural dynamics problems
- Behavioural laws of solids and structural reliability
Honours and Awards
- “Honoris Causa” Doctorate by the Universities of Seville (1999), Saragossa (2002), Carlos III (2003) and Valladolid (2004)
- National prize for Research in Engineering in 2002
- Award of the Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) in 1999
- the Medal “García Cabrerizo” for the promotion of Invention (2003)
- the research prize of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 2004
- the medal of the Spanish Society of Civil Engineering in 2004 and the Seijas Lozano Prize (2006) in recognition of his work for the benefit of industrial engineering
- member of the Section of Sciences and Engineering of the “Academia Europaea”
- Correspondent Academician of the Engineering Academies of México (2005) and Portugal (2006)
- member of the Spanish Section of the Rome Club
- “Officier des Palmes Académiques” of the French Republic (2005)
- “Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Reppublica Italiana” (2008)
- Full Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering (1994), in which he was elected General Secretary from 1998 to 2002 and President from January 2003 to January 2007