Òscar Gratacós Torrà
Researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona, Lecturer, and Secretary of the Geomodels Research Institute
Òscar Gratacós graduated from University of Barcelona in 1999 with a B.Sc. degree in Geology. He finished his PhD with honors at the University of Barcelona in 2004. His PhD was focused on numerical modelling of geological processes, specifically developing a code for a 3D subaqueous clastic transport and sedimentation and its interaction with carbonate producing organisms. Since then, he has been working at the UB as a researcher at the Geomodels Research Institute, and assistant lecturer in 3D modelling and structural geology for graduate and undergraduate students. Since 2008, he is the secretary of the GEOMODELS Research Institute.
His current research interest include: numerical modelling of geological processes (kinematic, mechanical and sedimentary processes); 3D/4D geological models (construction and developing different tools); Virtual Outcrop Models (analysis and extraction of geological properties); and analogue modeling.
Then, his research lines are focused mainly in:
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✓Forward numerical modelling of clastic sediment transport and sedimentation and its interaction with carbonate producing organisms.
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✓3D geological structural modelling: its construction and the development of new computer tools that helps its construction.
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✓Structural Geology
Studies
1999 Degree in Geology by the Universitat de Barcelona
2001 Diploma d’Estudis Avançats
2004 PhD in Geology by the Universitat de Barcelona. Title: “SIMSAFADIM-CLASTIC: 3D process-based numerical modelling of subaqueous clastic transport and sedimentation”
Grants and professional degree
1998 - 1999 Grant “Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Deportes (MECD) de col·laboració en Departaments”
1999 - 2002 Grant “Formació de Professorat Universitari FPU del MECD”
2003 until now. Assistant lecturer and Researcher at the University of Barcelona (Geomodels Research Institute)
Others
Stages abroad, 2000, 2001 and 2002, in Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften faculty, in Bayreuth, Germany, 6 months each year.
2008 until now. Secretary of the Geomodels Research Institute
