Prof. Jesús-Ignacio Prieto

Jesús-Ignacio Prieto (Oviedo, 1954) is a Naval Eng. (1976) and Dr. Industrial Eng. (1990). Author of 38 ship projects and installations approved by the Spanish Official College of Naval Engineers (1978-1982), he began his activity at the University of Oviedo in 1983, where has carried out teaching and research tasks (Associate Professor in 1987, Full Professor since 2016) and held academic management positions. Principal researcher in 27 R&D projects and contracts with research centres and companies such as CIEMAT, IK4 Tekniker, Abengoa Solar NT, CS Centro Stirling (Mondragon Corporation), Gamesa Solar-Siemens and UNISOLAR, he has coordinated a dozen technological developments. He has developed Stirling machine analysis and design procedures based on dynamic similarity, which are considered simultaneous and independent of those introduced in 1992 by Dr. Allan Organ of the University of Cambridge. In 1996 he received a visit from Kawasaki officials to discuss these procedures. Editor of 5 books and author of 12 books (including the first Solar Map of Asturias), a registered software and a patent, related respectively to applications of solar energy and the Stirling engine. President of the Interuniversity Work Group of Dimensional Analysis (Polytechnic University of Madrid, 1999-2000), member of international organizing committees in 12th ISEC (2005) and 16th ISEC (2014) and coordinator of 4 national conferences. Founding partner of a company related to renewable energy.