**Jordi Pons-Prats**

Dr. Jordi Pons-Prats is a Mechanical Engineer, PhD in Aerospace Science and Technology by Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC, BarcelonaTech). He is lecturer at UPC since 2020. Before he spent 12 years at CIMNE (International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering), a research center of UPC. From 2008 he is the responsible of the aerospace engineering group of CIMNE. He also had previous experience as project manager at industrial companies. His research career focused on the field of optimization, robust design and stochastic analysis, while with the integration into UPC it moved to Air Transport, Air Operations and Urban Air Mobility. He has published 21 scientific papers in JCR journals, among other publications like 10 book chapters and 1 conference proceedings. He has more than 250 citations and a h-index of 7 (Source: Web of Knowledge). He is the coordinator of the Iberia East Pilot Center of ERCOFTAC (www.ercoftac.org), and the Spanish National Contact Point and member of the Board of Directors of EASN (www.easn.net).
