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Andrés Sanz García

Associate Professor

  • Groups:Active Members, ALF, LAMCOM, Senior

Andrés Sanz García

Associate Professor

RESEARCH GROUPS/CENTERS: Laser Applications and Photonics (ALF), Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering Applied to Design, Manufacturing and Applications of Composite Materials (LAMCOM)

SCOPUS ID: 43061396600

PhD from the University of La Rioja, awarded in 2013 for the thesis Development and Application of Soft Computing and Data Mining Techniques in Hot-Dip Galvanizing, supervised by Dr. Francisco Javier Martínez de Pisón Ascacíbar.

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Sanchez-Garcia, D., Giménez-El-Amrani, A., Gonzalez-Muñoz, A., & Sanz-Garcia, A. (2025). An Open-Source 3D Bioprinter Using Direct Light Processing for Tissue Engineering Applications. Inventions, 10(5), 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions10050092

Berrah, C., Sanchez-Garcia, D., Rodriguez Vazquez Aldana, J., & Sanz-Garcia, A. (2025). Advantages of Femtosecond Laser Microdrilling PDMS Membranes over Conventional Methods for Organ-on-a-Chip. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 9(9), 300. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmmp9090300

Barragán, C. Z., Urraca, R., & Sanz-Garcia, A. (2025). A data-driven methodology for monitoring Total Quality Management (TQM) systems in the Industry 4.0 era. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 210, 111549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2025.111549

 

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