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Pablo has joined CESGA as Ramón y Cajal Fellow and R3 researcher to establish a new research area focussing on computational fluid dynamics, offshore renewable energy and environmental turbulent flows. He has a background as a MEng Civil Engineer (University of A Coruña) with a PhD in Civil Engineering at Cardiff University in 2017 working on large-eddy simulation of tidal stream turbines under the supervision of Profs Thorsten Stoesser and Roger Falconer. He then worked in the Supercomputing Wales project as Research Software Engineer for 18 months until becoming Lecturer in Computational Hydraulics at Cardiff University. In 2020, he joined the University of Manchester as Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw fellow to focus his research on novel high-fidelity models for micro- and meso-scale modelling of atmospheric flows with application to offshore wind farms. Pablo has received several prizes for his research, including the JFK Prize from IAHR in 2015 and Osborne Reynolds Competition in 2016 (poster award) and 2017 (finalist).
As of June 2025, Pablo supervised 5 PhDs till completion and his team currently comprises 4 PhD students at Manchester (co-supervised with Profs Stallard, Schultz, Stansby and Revell, and Dr Gallego-Schmidt), 1 PhD student at Cardiff (co-supervised with Profs Wilson and Cable) and 1 PhD student at UCL (co-supervised with Prof Stoesser and Dr Buldakov). He has been successful in obtaining competitive research funding for more than 1.3M€ as PI and 2.3M€ as Co-I, including Ramón y Cajal, SOLES (Consolidación Investigadora), Supergen ORE hub or POUNDS project. He has published 62 journal papers, have more than 80+ conference abstracts/papers, and invited to deliver 15 seminars at international institutions. He actively serves as reviewer in leading journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Physical Review Fluids, Journal of Fluids and Structures, etc.
Pablo is also an international consultant that enables research-led industrial innovation. He has been very active in engaging with world-leading industry within the offshore renewable energy sector and has obtained more than 200k€ in industry-funded projects. He is open for new consultancy collaborations in the areas of renewable energy.
Pablo´s current research interest lie on the development, validation and application of computational approaches to simulating offshore wind farms, solar photovoltaic facilities, atmospheric turbulence, hydraulic flows, microplastics, tidal-stream turbines, vertical axis turbines or new CFD approaches. He is open to receiving applications to support newer PhDs or post-docs at CESGA, including Marie-Curie Fellowships, ERC Starting grant, Xunta de Galicia pre- and post-doc schemes, etc.