Edgar A. Patiño-Nariño earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Engineering (Materials and Fabrication Process) from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), Bogotá, Colombia, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Computational Mechanics) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas-SP, Brazil, in 2017. His research focuses on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Microfluidics, and complex fluid flows.
From 2017 to 2023, Patiño conducted research in São Paulo State, Brazil. He served as a Collaborator, Visiting Researcher, and Postdoctoral researcher at Centro de Componentes Semicondutores & Nanotecnologias – CCSNano/Unicamp (2017-2019), Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer CTI (2019-2021), and Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo – IPT (2021-2023). His primary research focuses on understanding complex flows under severe conditions, particularly multiphase interactions and microfluidic conditions, involving liquid-liquid, liquid-gas, and fluid-structure interactions. He is interested in integrating continuum and complex fluid modeling through innovative numerical approximations such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). He also develops optimized code strategies for GPU parallel processing.
Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), working on the project “Multiscale Simulation of Polymeric Systems and Adhesive Materials” in the CFD-MS Group, under the leadership of Prof. Marco Ellero. The project aims to develop a fundamental understanding of polymeric adhesives by extending the multiscale simulation framework to explore the complexities of adhesion phenomena.