Joel Guerrero, born in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1977, obtained his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of the National Armed Forces in Maracay, Venezuela, after his undergraduate studies he obtained a specialization in Mechanical Engineering (computational thermo-sciences) at the University of Zulia, Venezuela.Shortly after he was awarded with a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering at SupAero, Toulouse, with a thesis entitled:“Efficient adaptation and mesh refinement methods for unsteady flows”; since 2006 he has been enrolled in the FLUBIO Marie-Curie project at the University of Genova as a long-stay trainee (LST) developing the project “Numerical Simulation of the Unsteady Aerodynamics of Flapping Flight” and "Higher-order Godunov methods for compressible flows", which will lead to the achievement of a PhD (expected May 2009). Joel’s research interests are related to high performance computing and computational methods for modelling fluid dynamic problems (for incompressible and compressible flows), including fluid-structure interaction and adaptive mesh refinement.Joel has a vast experience using commercial and open-source CFD codes, and has realized computer codes for the analysis of the fluid dynamics around moving bodies by the use of computational methods such as the overset composite grids/chimera meshes and the immersed boundary technique. 

http://www.dicat.unige.it/guerrero.