José Manuel Baraibar Díez (Ph.D. Civil Engineer) has more than 10 years of professional experience. In charge of the Department of Projects at VIUDA DE SAINZ, S.A.,  he coordinates a multidisciplinary team who elaborates technical offers and proposals for both private and public customers. In the ongoing works, he advises the construction managers on different alternatives to explore in order to enable easier solutions or to improve the performance of the works.

Between 2007 and 2011, at IDOM, he was part, as technical office manager, of the technical assistance team for the Project “Metropolitan Southern Bypass of Bilbao, Phase 1”, a new 15-km motorway with a budget of 700 M€. More than 60% of its layout was designed in tunnel sections.

Until 2015, he combined his professional duties with research activities in the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering at the University of Cantabria, which crystallised with his Doctoral Thesis entitled “Optimum design of twin-girder road bridges”. It was awarded in 2016 summa cum laude.

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