Miguel Ángel del Val Melús

Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) since 1981 and Doctor, with special honors, from the same university (1985). Since 1992, he has been a Full Professor at the School of Civil Engineering at the UPM. He has taught various subjects, always in the field of road and airport engineering: “Roads and Airports,” “Road and Airport Infrastructure,” “Pavement Analysis and Design,” “Road Planning and Management,” etc.

From 1999 to 2003, he was director of the International Road Course. Between 2002 and 2009, he was director of the Department of Civil Engineering-Transport at the UPM. He has also been a visiting professor at the National University of Rosario (Argentina) and has taught at the Spanish Army Engineers Academy.

He has supervised eight doctoral theses (seven at the UPM and one at the University of Granada), as well as a large number of master’s theses and final projects. Currently, his main line of research focuses on the analysis of the planning and management of Spanish provincial road networks.

In addition to his teaching and research work, he has worked as a consultant in Spain and in various other countries, including Argentina, Colombia, France, Honduras, India, Ireland, Mexico, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, and Portugal. In Portugal, he was also a a member of the External Scientific Committee of the Center for Urban and Regional Systems (CESUR) at the University of Lisbon in 2013 and 2014, and in 2016 and 2017 of the External Advisory Committee of the Doctoral Program in Transport Systems at the universities of Coimbra, Lisbon, and Porto (within the framework of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Portugal Program).

Since 2014, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Road Association (AEC). In December 2023, he was appointed chairman of the jury for the Juan Antonio Fernández del Campo International Road Innovation Award, promoted by the AEC Foundation.

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