Lucas Tesán Altelarrea

Ph. D. Student

Mechanical Engineering Department. Campus Río Ebro – Edificio Betancour

50018 – Zaragoza (Spain)

Email: ltesan@unizar.es / lucas.biomec@gmail.com

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Education

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2024 – On going)
  • M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering (2022 – 2024)
    • Project Title: “Development of artificial intelligence techniques for the creation of digital human twins.”
    • Advisor:
      • Dr. David González Ibáñez
  • B. Sc in Mechanical Engineering (2018 – 2022)
    • Project Title: “Finite Element Simulation of the progression of DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) in a mouse brain”
    • Advisors:
      • Dr. María José Gómez Benito
      • Dr. José Manuel García Aznar

Research Areas

  • Computational Mechanics and Real Time Simulations
  • Computational Medicine
  • Physically informed Neural Networks
  • Scientific Machine Learning
  • Biomechanics and biostatistics

Congress Participations

Poster

  • Redes neuronales de grafos informadas por termodinámica para la simulación de gemelos digitales anatómicamente precisos. XIII Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores/as del I3A. 2024.
  • Digital Human Twins Through Hybrid Artificial Intelligence. 29th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2024.

Conference Talks

  • Developing artificial intelligence techniques for the creation of digital human twins. X Jornada de Doctorandos del Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Mecánica. Zaragoza, España. 2024
  • Personalización anatómica para gemelos digitales hepáticos. National Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics. Pamplona, Spain. 2024.
  • Redes Neuronales de Grafos Informadas por Termodinámica para la Simulación en Tiempo Real de Gemelos Digitales Humanos. XI Jornada de Doctorandos del Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Mecánica. Zaragoza, España. 2025
  • Graph Neural Networks for Anatomical Personalisation of Hepatic Digital Twins. 3rd IACM Digital Twins in Engineering Conference (DTE 2025) & 1st ECCOMAS Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in Applied Science (AICOMAS 2025). Paris, France.

Publications

  • A Neural Network Architecture for Physically-consistent Haptic Rendering. Q. Hernandez, P. Martins, L. Tesan, I. Alfaro, D. Gonzalez, F. Chinesta, E. Cueto. Submitted, 2024. Virtual Reality.
  • Thermodynamics-Informed Graph Neural Networks for Real-Time Simulation of Digital Human Twins. L. Tesán, D. González, P. Martins and E. Cueto. Submitted, 2024. Computational Mechanics.

Awards and Achievements

  • Competitive grant from I3A for the master’s degree final project. 2023.
  • Award for the best contribution in the biomedical engineering category. XIII Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores/as del I3A. 2024.