Pablo Daniel Ferrada Martínez
Profesor Ayudante Doctor (Assistant Professor)
Department of Mathematical Analysis and Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematical Sciences
Complutense University of Madrid
Research Group MOMAT
Bio
Pablo Ferrada completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Civil Engineering at the University of Santiago (USACH). During his undergraduate program, he was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where he conducted his undergraduate thesis as an external student. His thesis was titled "Determination of Stability Regions for Closed-Loop Control Systems with Uncertain Time Delay in the Parameter Space." He later earned a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Konstanz, Germany. During this period, he was a researcher at the International Solar Energy Research Center Konstanz (ISC Konstanz) in Germany (2008-2013), where he performed experimental work and modeling of solar cells.
Following his doctoral studies, he held two postdoctoral positions (2013-2015 funded by the University of Antofagasta in Chile and 2015-2017 funded by the National Research and Development Agency of Chile) at the Energy Center of the University of Antofagasta, focusing on studies of the Solar Spectrum, Atmospheric Variables, and their impact on the performance of Solar Cells. He conducted in situ measurements and utilized simulation tools for numerical analysis. Additionally, he served as an Associate Professor at the same university in Chile (2017-2024). During 2023 and 2024, he was a visiting professor at the
University of Huelva (Spain), where he concentrated his work on solar spectrum modeling and solar cell optimization.
In 2022, Pablo Ferrada completed a Master’s degree in Numerical Simulation in Science and Engineering with COMSOL Multiphysics.
Currently, he is Profesor Ayudante Doctor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid and a researcher affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute (IMI). He is also a member of the MOMAT (Mathematical Models in Science and Technology: Development, Analysis, Numerical Simulation, and Control) Group. Furthermore, he is an External Researcher at the Solar Energy Research Center
(SERC Chile).
He has participated in various research projects related to Material Science, Photovoltaic Technology, and Territorial Characterization. He was the Principal Investigator of the Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project No. 3160190, Director of a Work Package in the ATAMOS TEC Project, and a researcher in the FONDEF IDEA ID17I10043 Project. His latest project as Principal Investigator was the Fondecyt Initiation Project (2019-2022) No. 11190289 on UV radiation in photovoltaic devices, and he co-directed a FIC project (2019-2020) on Territorial Characterization. Since May 2016, he has been a member of the German Physical Society (DPG), Membership Number 164690.
Research interests
Mathematical Modeling and Optimization. Photovoltaic Device Optimization. Numerical Methods and Multiphysics Simulations.
Latest Publications
- F. Vargas, R. Nelson, D. EspinozaIvan Brito, L. Sánchez-Muñoz, P. Alemany, S. Ortiz, P. Ferrada, A. Mestra, J. Llanos. Enhancing c-Si Solar Cell Efficiency in the UV Region: Photophysical Insights into the Use of Eu3+ Complexes for Down-Shifting Layer Applications. Molecules 2023,
28, (23), 7924; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28237924. - S. Mitterhofer, J. Slapšak, A. Astigarraga, D. Moser, G. Oviedo Hernandez, P. Vincenzo Chiantore, W. Luo, Y. Sheng Khoo, J. Rabanal-Arabach, E. Fuentealba, P. Ferrada, M. Trigo-Gonzalez, J. Ascencio-Vásquez, M. Topič, M. Jankovec. Measurement and Simulation of Moisture Ingress in PV Modules in Various Climates, in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2023.3323808.
- H. Revollo, P. Ferrada, P. Martin, A. Marzo, V. del Campo. HIT Solar Cell Modeling Using Graphene as a Transparent Conductive Layer Considering the Atacama Desert Solar Spectrum. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 9323. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app13169323.
- G. López, C. A. Gueymard, J. Polo, J. Alonso-Montesinos, A. Marzo, N. Martín-Chivelet, P. Ferrada, M. Isabel Escalona-Llaguno, F. Javier Batlles. Increasing the Resolution and Spectral Range of Measured Direct Irradiance Spectra for PV Applications. Remote Sens. 2023, 15(6), 1675. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15061675.