Group Salazar

Sustainable Mobility: Mobility systems are facing significant challenges such as congestion and pollution. The advent of autonomy, connectivity, and electrification, combined with recent advances in optimal control and optimization methods, may provide us with opportunities to rethink mobility from a human-centered and holistic perspective, realizing its accessibility purpose in a fair and sustainable fashion. In this context, our research lines are aimed at jointly optimizing the design and operation of mobility systems, from the individual vehicles and aircraft to intermodal mobility systems and electric regional air mobility networks, including fair incentive schemes to achieve system-optimal user behavior.

Pandemic Control: During the Covid-19 pandemic, governments have been struggling to decide which policies to implement to limit the outbreak whilst minimizing collateral damage. Our research focuses on the development of epidemiological optimization models and control algorithms to support policymakers in the roll-out of NPIs and vaccination strategies. 
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Ceramic Materials: Ceramics show great promise to serve as key enabling materials in many fields, such as green energy, affordable communication, cleaner aviation, and biomedical technologies. However, their applications are severely hindered by their brittleness, which is their poor toughness against fracture. To overcome this limitation, we pursue the development of tougher ceramics by integrating optimization algorithms with an experimental-numerical platform. Through this approach, we aim to streamline the material design process and reduce the need for extensive experimental campaigns.  Currently, we are collaborating with Group Giuntini (https://research.tue.nl/en/organisations/group-giuntini ) on the Double-tough Material Meta-experimental Design Optimization (DoMaMeDO) project.