He completed his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, and held several visiting research positions at École Polytechnique, France, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass, USA, Imperial College, UK, and University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA. His research includes different aspects of computational biomechanics, biomaterials modeling, and tissue engineering, with a focus in the recent years on the modeling and simulation of cell-biomaterial interaction and cellular mechanics. He has more than 50 publications in these topics including peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.