Nicolás Alejandro Barnafi Wittwer
Assistant Professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Scientific computing, Numerical Analysis, Computational Mechanics.
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Computational Mathematics, POLITECNICO DE MILANO. Italia, 2021
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Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2017
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Mathematical Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2017
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Industrial Engineering, Diploma in Mathematics, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2017
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CMM-CNRS Researcher Other
Centro de Modelamiento Matemático
Santiago, Chile
2023 - At present
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Italia
2020 - 2021
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA
Italia
2021 - 2022
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
Centro de Modelamiento Matemático
Chile
2022 - 2023
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ANID Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile
2023 - 2023
Ph.D. graduates:
- Aparna Bansal, Mathematics, IIT Roorkee.
M.Sc. graduates:
- Arturo Muñoz, Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile. With Axel Osses.
Current:
- Diego Vera, Magíster en Ingeniería Matemática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. With Manuel Sánchez.
- Cristóbal Ramos, Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile. With Axel Osses.
- Elías Basulto, Magíster en Ingeniería Matemática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. With Daniel Hurtado.
Presentation in conferences:
LACIAM Valparaíso – Chile 2026
MS Organizer, Numerical methods and approximations for poroelastic materials.
Speaker, Cardiac ablation as a thermoporoelastic continuum.
Speaker, Monotone Operator Convergence Theory for GPME.
IPPhyis Puerto Varas – Chile 2026
Speaker, The Inverse (Poro)elasticity problem.
JKU Seminar Linz – Austria 2025
Speaker, Monotone operator convergence theory for GPME
SSD–CATS RWTH Aachen – Germany 2025
Speaker, Modeling of Cardiac fibers as Liquid Crystals.
C2MC Concepción – Chile 2025
Plenary Speaker, E?icient Numerical Methods for Solving (almost) Everything.
GIBIT Day Santiago – Chile 2025
Speaker, Mathematical models for biomedicine and beyond.
Applied Inverse Problems (AIP) Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 2025
Speaker, Inverse (poro)elasticity in biomedicine.
Seminario Estudiantil de Ecuaciones Diferenciales Chillán – Chile 2025
Plenary Speaker, Modelos matemáticosy sus aplicaciones.
Talca Numérica I Talca – Chile 2025
Event Organizer & Speaker, Monotonce operator convergence theory for GPME.
Math2Product (M2P) Valencia – Spain 2025
MS Organizer, E?icient solution of complex physics.
Speaker, Cardiac fibers as liquid crystals.
Jornadas Matemáticas de la Zona Sur Talca – Chile 2025
Speaker, Robust Solution of nonlinear poroelasticity.
Heidelberg-Chile Meeting Santiago – Chile 2025
Speaker, Liquid crystal modeling of cardiac fibers.
Speaker, Robust and scalable solvers in nonlinear poroelasticity.
Computational Fluid Conference Santiago – Chile 2025
Speaker, Weakly slip conditions in NS: Convergence and VMS-LES.
Inria-LNCC-Chile Meeting Petropolis – Brazil 2025
Speaker, Robust and scalable solvers in nonlinear poroelasticity.
SIAM CSE25 Fort Worth – US2025
Speaker, E?icient solution of multiphysics problems with Anderson Acceleration.
Congreso Chileno de Mecánica Computacional Quilpué – Chile 2024
Speaker, Robust scalable solvers in [poro]elasticity.
WCCM Vancouver – Canada 2024
Speaker, Robust and scalable solvers in nonlinear poroelasticity.
New Frontiers in MathBio Santiago – Chile 2024
Speaker, Analysis [...] of fully nonlinear poroelasticity.
ORNL Julia Meeting Oak Ridge – USA 2024
Speaker, Anderson acceleration for multiphysics problems.
ECCOMAS Lisbon – Portugal 2024
MS Organizer, Robust and Scalable Solvers in HPC.
JMZS2024 Temuco – Chile 2024
Speaker, E?icient solvers for poroelasticity, p-nematic liquid crystals.
MS Organizer, MS: Biomatemática
WONAPDE Concepción – Chile 2024
Speaker, Cardiac ablation as multiphase continuum.
Speaker, E?icient solvers in nonlinear poroelasticity.
MS Organizer, MS: Effective solvers for innovative discretizations.
2024SOMACHI Santiago – Chile 2023
Speaker, Discretización consistente de la poroelasticidad no-lineal.
Special Semester Linz – Austria 2023
Speaker, Thermoporoelastic modeling of cardiac ablation.
Workshop Mat. Interdisciplinar Concepción – Chile 2023
Speaker, Modelos matemáticos para la cardiología computacional.
DIM-PDE Seminar Santiago – Chile 2023
Speaker, Variational techniques for non-trivial boundary conditions.
ICIAM2023 Tokyo - Japan 2023
Speaker, Scalable, parallel and robust solvers for cardiac simulations.
MS Organizer, MS: E?icient and scalable solvers for multiscale phenomena.
Caleta Numérica Valparaíso – Chile 2023
Speaker, Matemática computacional para tejidos blandos.
SIAMGS23 Bergen – Norway 2023
Speaker, Robust and scalable solvers in nonlinear poroelasticity.
YIC23 Porto – Portugal 2023
Speaker, Anderson acceleration for robust and scalable quasi-Newton methods.
LSSC23’ Sozopol – Bulgary 2023
Speaker, Accelerated Quasi-Newton schemes for multiphysics.
M2P Taormina – Italy 2023
Speaker, A bridge between cardiac fibers and liquid crystals.
JMZS2023 Concepción – Chile 2023
Attendee, Jornadas Matemáticas de la Zona Sur.
IPMAS2023 Santiago – Chile 2023
Attendee, Inverse problems methods, applications and synergies.
MCFM2022 Cetraro – Italy 2022
Speaker, Robust and scalable solvers for cardiac electromechanics.
GACM2022 Essen – Germany 2022
Speaker, A variational approach for the Bidomain equations in electrophysiology.
GIMC-SIMAI Pavia – Italy 2022
MS Organizer, Fluid flows and porous media.
MATHMOD2022 Viena – Austria 2022
Speaker, Large strain porochemoelastic model for [...] myocardial oedema.
IMG2022 Lugano – Switzerland 2022
Speaker, Robust and scalable solvers for cardiac electormechanics.
WCCM2022 Online 2022
Speaker, E?icient solvers in cardiac mechanics.
CMBE22 Milan – Italy 2022
Speaker, Scalable parallel solvers for cardiac electromechanics.
COLIBRI Focus Workshop 2022 Graz – Austria 2022
Speaker, Large strain porochemoelastic model for [...] myocardial oedema.
DDM Milan – Italy 2021
Attendee, Summer School on Advanced Domain Decomposition Methods.
Young MNCM Pavia – Italy 2021
Event Organizer, Young Researchers Workshop on Num and Math Cardiac Modeling.
SIMAI2021 Parma – Italy 2021
Speaker, Talk 1: Cardiac poromechanics, Talk 2: Scalable solvers for mechanics.
YAMC2021 Leuca – Italy 2021
Speaker, Cardiac modeling: From micro to macro scales.
MCF2021 Milan – Italy 2021
Speaker, Scalable domain decomposition preconditioners for cardiac mechanics.
SIAM GS21 Online
Speaker, Numerical Approximation and E?icient Solvers for [...] linear poromechanics.
5th Soft Tissue Workshop Online 2021
Speaker, A novel mathematical novel for cardiac perfusion.
RISM iHeart: Modelling the Cardiac Function Varese – Italy 2019
Speaker, Numerical Analysis of a linearized poro-hyperelastic formulation.
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FONDECYT Postdoctoral
FONDECYT
Chile, 2023
COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF OXYGEN SUPPLY IN TISSUES UNDER LARGE DEFORMATIONS
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ECOS-ANID
FONDECYT
Chile, 2025
Collaboration grant with Laurent Seppecher from École Centrale Lyon. Title "Mathematical and numerical models for parameter identification in soft tissue"
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SIAM Postdoctoral Grant
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Estados Unidos, 2024
Collaboration grant with Massimiliano Lupo Pasini from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Robert Bartnik Fellowship
MONASH UNIVERSITY
Australia, 2026
Collaboration grant with Sergio Rojas on Neural Network Approximation of PDEs.
Daniel Hurtado
Full Professor
Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, DEPTO. INGENIERIA ESTRUCTURAL Y GEOTECNICA
Santiago, Chile
Gabriel Gatica
Senior Researcher and Full Professor
Center for Research in Mathematical Engineering and Department of Mathematical Engineering
Universidad de Concepcion
Concepcion, Chile
Nicolás Barnafi
Assistant Professor
Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile