• BS, Civil Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, 2007
• MS, Civil Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, 2009
• Ph D, Computational Mechanics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, 2014

Journal Articles

Tokimasa Shimada, Koji Nishiguchi, Christian Peco, Shigenobu Okazawa and Makoto Tsubokura, 2024, "Eulerian finite volume method using Lagrangian markers with reference map for incompressible fluid–structure interaction problems", Computers&Fluids, 274, pp. 106210

Christian Peco Regales, 2024, "Neural networks for emergent behavior in biological microstructures", Engineering Computations, TBD

Manik Kumar, Nilay Upadhyay, Wesley Reinhart and Christian Peco Regales, 2024, "Modeling Discrete Biological Materials with a Surrogate Neural Network Bio-lattice Framework", Advanced Materials, TBD

Farshad Ghanbari, Eduardo Rodriguez, Andrea Paola Arguelles and Christian Peco, 2023, "Modeling of wave propagation in polycrystalline ice with hierarchical density gradients", Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 217, pp. 103916

Farshad Ghanbari and Christian Peco, 2023, "Eulerian Finite-strain Elasticity with Phase-?eld and the Reference Map Technique", Transactions of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, 27, pp. 8-13

Joe Sgarrella, Farshad Ghanbari and Christian Peco, 2022, "I-STL2MOOSE: from STL data to integrated volumetrical meshes for MOOSE", SoftwareX, 21, pp. 101273

Tokimasa Shimada, Koji Nishiguchi, Christian Peco, Shigenobu Okazawa and Makoto Tsubokura, 2022, "Eulerian unified formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems using marker particles with Reference map", Transactions of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, 2022, 20220002

Farshad Ghanbari, Francesco Costanzo, David Hughes and Christian Peco, 2020, "Phase-field modeling of constrained interactive fungal networks", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 145, pp. 104160

C Peco, Yingjie Liu, C Rhea and JE Dolbow, 2019, "Models and Simulations of Surfactant-Driven Fracture in Particle Rafts", International Journal of Solids and Structures, 156–157, pp. Pages 194-209

Yingjie Liu, C Peco and John E Dolbow, 2019, "A fully coupled mixed finite element method for surfactants spreading on thin liquid films", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 345, pp. 429-453

C Peco, Wei Chen, Yingjie Liu, MM Bandi, John E Dolbow and Eliot Fried, 2017, "Influence of surface tension in the surfactant-driven fracture of closely-packed particulate monolayers", Soft Matter, 13, (35), pp. 5832-5841

F Greco, L Filice, C Peco and M Arroyo, 2015, "A stabilized formulation with maximum entropy meshfree approximants for viscoplastic flow simulation in metal forming", International Journal of Material Forming, 8, (3), pp. 341-353

C Peco, Millan, Daniel, Adrian Rosolen and Marino Arroyo, 2015, "Efficient implementation of Galerkin meshfree methods for large-scale problems with an emphasis on maximum entropy approximants", Computers & Structures, 150, pp. 52-62

Amir Abdollahi, C Peco, Millan, Daniel, Marino Arroyo, Gustau Catalan and Irene Arias, 2015, "Fracture toughening and toughness asymmetry induced by flexoelectricity", Physical Review B, 92, (9), pp. 094101

Bin Li, C Peco, Millan, Daniel, Irene Arias and Marino Arroyo, 2015, "Phase-field modeling and simulation of fracture in brittle materials with strongly anisotropic surface energy", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 102, (3-4), pp. 711-727

Amir Abdollahi, Millan, Daniel, C Peco, Marino Arroyo and Irene Arias, 2015, "Revisiting pyramid compression to quantify flexoelectricity: A three-dimensional simulation study", Physical Review B, 91, (10), pp. 104103

Amir Abdollahi, C Peco, Daniel Millan, Marino Arroyo and Irene Arias, 2014, "Computational evaluation of the flexoelectric effect in dielectric solids", Journal of Applied Physics, 116, (9), pp. 093502

A Rosolen, C Peco and M Arroyo, 2013, "An adaptive meshfree method for phase-field models of biomembranes. Part I: Approximation with maximum-entropy basis functions", Journal of Computational Physics, 249, pp. 303-319

C Peco, A Rosolen and M Arroyo, 2013, "An adaptive meshfree method for phase-field models of biomembranes. Part II: A Lagrangian approach for membranes in viscous fluids", Journal of Computational Physics, 249, pp. 320-336

Alex Guevel, Yue Meng, Christian Peco, Ruben Juanes and John Dolbow, , "A Darcy–Cahn–Hilliard model of multiphase fluid-driven fracture", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 181, pp. 105427

Farshad Ghanbari, Joe Sgarrella and Christian Peco, , "Emergent Dynamics in Slime Mold Networks", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 179, pp. 105387

Feihong Liu, Andrea Paola Arguelles and Christian Peco, , "Numerical dispersion and dissipation in 3D wave propagation for polycrystalline homogenization", Finite elements in Engineering Design, 240, pp. 104212

Yuanxin Xiao, Nathan Halforth, Fariborz Tavangarian and Christian Peco, , "Nested structure role in the mechanical response of spicule inspired fibers", Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 19, (4), pp. 046008

Conference Proceedings

Farshad Ghanbari, Joe Sgarrella and Christian Peco, 2023, "Coding soft matter with bionetworks-inspired emergent principles", Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication XIII, 12481, pp. 5-14

Olivia Lowe, Christian Peco and Fariborz Tavangarian, 2023, "Modeling of the Bending Behavior to Study Nested-Cylinder Structure in Spicules", TMS 2023 152nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings, pp. 1215-1221

Eduardo G. Rodriguez, Christian Peco and Daniel Millan, 2022, "The Influence of Material Properties Distribution of Waves in 1D: Application to Cryoultrasonics", Mecánica Computacional, 39, (7), pp. 217-217

Tokimasa Shimada, Koji Nishiguchi, Christian Peco, Shigenobu Okazawa and Makoto Tsubokura, 2021, "Eulerian Formulation Using Lagrangian Marker Particles with Reference Map Technique for Fluid-structure Interaction Problem", 9th edition of the International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, 2022, pp. 1-7

Amir Abdollahi, C Peco, Millan, Daniel, Marino Arroyo and Irene Arias, 2014, "A computational study of flexoelectricity in nanostructures.", 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), 1, pp. 2

C Peco, A Rosolen and M Arroyo, 2013, "Simulation of the dynamics of bio-membranes in a viscous fluid with a phasefield variational lagrangian approach", XI International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications COMPLAS XI, 1, pp. 13

Adrian Rosolen, C Peco and Marino Arroyo, 2010, "Stabilized, multiscale, and multiphysics modeling in fluid mechanics.", Mecanica Computacional 2010, 29(81), pp. 8001-8008

Other

Benjamin W Spencer, Wen Jiang, John E Dolbow and C Peco, 2016, "Pellet cladding mechanical interaction modeling using the extended finite element method", Idaho National Laboratory, INL/CON-16-37676

Benjamin W Spencer, Wen Jiang, John E Dolbow and C Peco, 2016, "Evaluation of relocation effects modeled using discrete fracture models", CASL FY16 letter report, Idaho National Laboratory

C Peco, 2014, "Approximation of phase-field models with meshfree methods: exploring biomembrane dynamics", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech

Farshad Ghanbari and Christian Peco, , "Analysis and Guidelines for Integration of Phase-field and FFT Techniques for Fracture Simulations", Fluor Marine Propulsion Laboratory

• January 2021 - December 2024, "Collaborative Research: Particle Reinforced Ice as a Tunable Acoustic Couplant," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• June 2020 - May 2021, "From Zombie Ants to Constrained Interactive Networks," (Sponsor: ICDS).

• USNCCM'17 Travel Award for Feihong Liu (Graduate Student), U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, July 2023

• Certificate of Completion of Inclusive Leadership in Equity, Allyship and Diversity, ILEAD, April 2023

• Best Student Oral Presentation Award ESM TODAY 2022, ESM, February 2022

• Art and Science presented work at ESM TODAY 2022, ESM, February 2022

• CMAME Journal Reviewer Recognition, Elsevier, January 2020

• Finalist Science Photography DUKE, Duke University, 2018

• Soft Matter Featured Cover Paper, Soft Matter, 2017

• Winner Poster Competition USNCCM, USNCCM'14, 2017

• FPU (University Professorship Formation) Doctoral fellowship, Ministry of Science and Education, Spain, 2011 - 2014

• Best Doctoral Thesis in Computational Mechanics, SEMNI (Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering), 2014

• Extraordinary Award for Ph.D. Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, 2014

• UPC Doctoral Fellowship, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, 2010 - 2011

• Applied Mathematics Doctoral Fellowship, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, 2010

• Winner Poster Competition UPC, Applied Mathematics Department, 2010

Service to Penn State:

• Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Committee Member, Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, January 2023

• Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Director, Mental Health Awareness Affinity, May 2023

• Committee Work, Committee Member, COE Research Computing Committee, September 2022

• Committee Work, Chairperson, ESM Safety Committee, 2022

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Founder Faculty Member, ICDS Coordinating Committee, 2021

• Committee Work, Chairperson, COE Research Computing Committee, August 2020 - August 2022

• Committee Work, Developer, Founder Faculty Member, Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE), 2020

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Prof. Koji Nishiguchi Seminar on Eulerian Elasticity, ICDS-ESM, November 2019 - November 2019

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Undergraduate ABET Committee: Portfolio, 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum: Dynamics and Computation, 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Undergraduate Recruitment, 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Graduate Qualifying/Candidacy Mechanics, 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, Graduate Student Recruitment & Admissions, 2018

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM Computer Network & Data Management Advisory Com., 2018

• Committee Work, Co-Chairperson, ESM Safety Committee, 2018 - 2021

• Committee Work, Committee Member, COE Research Computing Committee, 2017 - 2020

• Committee Work, Committee Member, ESM Faculty Mentoring Committee, 2017

• Assistance to Student Organizations, Panelist, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, January 2019

• Contributions to Programs to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Panelist, Hispanic Heritage Month Panelist, MATSE, October 2021

Service to External Organizations:

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Symposium organizer: Fluid-Structure Interaction in Interface and Moving Boundary Problems, WCCM24/PANAM24, July 2024 - July 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Symposium organizer: Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, SPIE2024, March 2024 - March 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Symposium organizer: Fluid-Structure Interaction in Interface and Moving Boundary Problems, 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 2023 - July 2023

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Symposium organizer: Modeling Growth, Biological Networks Development, and Interfaces in Soft MatterProblems, 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 2023 - July 2023

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Committee Member, Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication XIV, international society for optics and photonics (SPIE), 2023

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Board Member, Member-at-large (organizer) for the TTA of Manufacturing and Materials, US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Symposium Organizer, WCCM ECCOMAS 2021, January 2021 - January 2021

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Symposium Organizer, SES 2020, September 2020 - September 2020

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Co-Organizer, Symposium Organizer, WCCM ECCOMAS 2020, July 2020 - July 2020

• Service to Enhance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Faculty, Faculty advisor, HPE 2020 Graduate Track Peer Review (Hispanic graduate student application advising), October 2020 - October 2020

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, Member for the TTA of Biological Systems, US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2020 - 2021

• Service to Governmental Agencies, Advisor, Invited expert for biomechanics and machine learning areas, NSF Computational Mechanics Vision Workshop, October 2019 - November 2019