Source: Daniel Lozano
Daniel was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and during his school time he got interest in physics and maths, but from an applied point of view. So, Daniel decided to study Mechanical Engineering and got enrolled at the National University of Colombia.
During his studies, numerical methods and material science caught Daniel’s interest. Afterwards, he had the possibility to travel to Italy for doing master studies at the Polytechnic University of Milan. There he focused on virtual prototyping. In this period Daniel got in touch with engineering tools for simulations as well as with mechanics of composite materials.
In April 2020 he holds his thesis defence titeld ‘Numerical models for the study of bone damage at the multiscale’. After finishing his master, Daniel had the opportunity of participating as PhD student in the GW4SHM project at the Federal Institute of Research and Testing of Materials in Berlin. So, since he started, on the 1st of September, Daniel focusses on modelling of ultrasonic wave propagation using the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method, the interaction with defects, and how to develop more realistic models in this framework.