Mª José Rupérez received a PhD by the Technical University of Valencia after a successful viva on July, the 6th. Dr. Rupérez carried out a work on multidisciplinary techniques to help in the simulation of the contact between the foot and the shoe upper when walking; in particular, she worked on Vitual Reality, Finite Element Methods and Machine Learning. Her work has been co-supervised by IDAL member Dr. José D. Martín. IDAL member Dr. Juan Gómez was the Secretary of the International Panel of examiners. IDAL congratulates Mª José for an excellent research and well-done work and wishes her a successful post-doctoral research.
