Alejandro Giraldo Soto

Dr. -Ing, Dipl. UPM

Dr. Alejandro Giraldo Soto earned his Master’s degree (2011) and his doctoral degree (2017) in Engineering of Structures, Foundations and Materials and is a civil engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He has more than 15 years of experience and is specialized in structural engineering and bridge design. Alejandro is currently working part-time as a research assistant of the Chair for Structural Concrete and Bridge Design, Institute of Structural Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, and the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication.

From 2004 to 2014, he worked in several Spanish engineering and construction companies as a structural designer, supervisor on a construction site (Apia XXI, S.A.), production manager in the construction of precast concrete industrial buildings (Prainsa Group – Conavinsa, S.A.) and, among others, as an external structural engineer (FHECOR Ingenieros Consultores, S.A.).

In 2010, he joined the research group Structural Concrete Group (GHE) of UPM. He was a researcher and teaching assistant of the Reinforced Concrete and Prestressing’s Chairof the civil engineering school (“Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos“). In addition, he was a temporary lecturer of the Airport Concrete Structures’s Chair of the Technical School of Aeronautics of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (2012-2013).

In 2014, he continued his professional career in Switzerland working as a structural engineer at Meichtry & Widmer AG, In 2018, he started as a Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich and a structural engineer at dsp Ingenieure + Planer AG (until 2021).

Professional and academic experience

  • 2018 – Research Assistant. Chair for Concrete Structures and Bridge Design, Institute of Structural Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 2018/2021 – Project manager and structural engineer. dsp Ingenieure & Planer AG, engineering company (Switzerland)
  • 2014/2018 – Structural engineer. Meichtry & Widmer AG, engineering company (Switzerland)
  • 2012/2013 – Professor. Chair for Airport Concrete Structures at the Technical School of Aeronautics of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)
  • 2011 – Member and secretary of the Spanish Mirror Group of the Horizontal Group-Bridges AEN-CTN-140 (Spain)
  • 2010 – Co-founder and technical adviser. Fontis GS Group S.L., engineering company (Spain)
  • 2010/2013 – Structural engineer (external). Fhecor Ingenieros Consultores S.L., engineering company (Spain)
  • 2010/2017 – Researcher. the Structural Concrete Group of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)
  • 2008/2009 – Supervisor on a construction site. Apia XXI S.A., engineering company (Spain)
  • 2006/2008 – Production manager. Conavinsa S.A. – Prainsa Group, construction company (Spain)
  • 2005/2006 – Assistant Construction Manager. Ferrovial Agroman S.A., construction company (Spain)
  • 2004/2005 – Designer. Sertec Ingeniería S.L., engineering company (Spain)

Education

  • 2017 – PhD in Engineering of Structures, Foundations and Materials
    Polytechnic University of Madrid
  • 2011 – MSc in Engineering of Structures, Foundations and Materials
    Polytechnic University of Madrid
  • 2009 – Civil Engineering with specialized in structures and foundations
    Polytechnic University of Madrid

Publications

Membership

  • Since 2019 – fib Task Group 2.6: Composite steel-​concrete construction
  • Since 2018 – International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib)
  • Since 2018 – Scientific and Technical Association of Structural Concrete (ACHE), Spain
  • Since 2011 – Spanish Mirror Group of the CEN/TC 250 Horizontal Group Bridges (HG-​B), depending on AEN/CTN-​140 “Structural Eurocodes”.