Roberto Palma’s research has gravitated around thermodynamic formulations for non-linear finite element applied to multi-coupled materials, optimization and inverse modeling, with some incursions in seismic engineering applied to experimental design in High Energy Physics.

He has published 26 papers (7 of them as first author) in refereed journals that have received 481 cites being his h-index 14; 3 book chapters and 34 contributions in conferences. He has participated in 11 research projects supported by Spanish Government (8), European Community (1) and private companies (2).

In 2012, he received both Extraordinary PhD Award by the University of Granada and the Best PhD Thesis Award by the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI).