**Francisco Chinesta**

Francisco Chinesta is currently a full professor of computational physics at ENSAM (Paris, France), an honorary fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France and a fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. He is the president of the ESI Group scientific committee. He was an AIRBUS chair professor, and since 2013, he has been an ESI Group chair professor on advanced modeling and simulation of materials, structures, processes and systems. He has received many scientific awards: IACM Zienkiewicz and the ESAFORM in four different fields: bio-engineering, material forming processes, rheology and computational mechanics (model order reduction and engineered artificial intelligence). He is the author of about 320 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 900 contributions in conferences. He has received many distinctions: the French Academic Palms, the Order of Merit, the Doctorate Honoris Causa at the University of Zaragoza in 2018 and the Silver medal from the French CNRS in 2019.
