
Javier Videla is a PhD student at School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, currently working on numerical methods for the inverse problem of the wave equation, under the supervision of Dr Elena Atroshchenko and Professor Chongmin Song. Before that, Javier joined in 2017 the graduate program of the University of Chile, obtaining his MSc in mechanical engineer in 2018 with the highest honours.
His research area is computational mechanics and numerical methods, with particular emphasis in Isogeometric Analysis, with applications to Elasticity, Fracture Mechanics, plates and Acoustics.