Emilio Daroch
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Emilio Daroch SalazarQUANTIA14 October 2025 – Present

Engineering intelligence for complex industrial systems

R&D Manager combining engineering, artificial intelligence and digital twins to lead applied innovation, address business challenges and deliver solutions for complex physical assets.

R&D Managerat QUANTIA

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Emilio Daroch Salazar

Credentials

R&D leadership
QUANTIA
R&D Manager · 14 October 2025 – Present
Doctoral research
University of Granada
PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering · MSc Structural Engineering
European R&D
Horizon Europe and MSCA
BUILDCHAIN · INTELLIWIND (MSCA) · INNTERCONECTA
Engineering foundation
ASENAV
Naval and planning engineering, 2011–2021

Areas of work

What he works on

Three areas where engineering and artificial intelligence meet on real physical assets.

Intelligence for physical assets

Digital twins, structural monitoring and reliability models to understand how buildings, vessels and industrial facilities behave and are maintained.

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Twins
  • Explainable AI

AI for engineering

Physics-informed methods, Bayesian inference and machine learning applied to engineering problems where data alone is not enough.

  • Physics-Informed Machine Learning
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Reliability Engineering

Connected engineering knowledge

Ontologies and knowledge graphs that make the technical and regulatory knowledge of an engineering project traceable and usable.

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • LLM
  • Microsoft Azure

Projects

Selected projects

Four projects chosen because they cover different dimensions of the same body of work: structural engineering and European programmes, industrial R&D, semantic technologies and data architecture. This is not a ranking, and the rest of the portfolio is one click away.

BUILDCHAIN

Horizon Europe

Project
1 January 2023 – 30 June 2026
Emilio's participation
5 May 2023 – 14 October 2025

About the project

Development of a Digital Building Logbook (DBL) based on decentralized knowledge graphs. As a proof of concept, pilot sites integrate structural-integrity information into the graph; at Granada's Hospital Real, this enables structural data to be incorporated while preserving the security and immutability provided by blockchain.

Emilio's contribution

Managed UGR participation and led technical delivery of the Hospital Real demonstrator: continuous structural monitoring, on-site data acquisition, relational and non-relational databases, remote access through REST APIs and data-quality workflows.

Core methods

  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Digital Twins
  • Bayesian System Identification
  • Structural Engineering
Detail and evidence
Assets
Hospital Real
Official project record
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101092052

Technologies

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Ontologies
  • Blockchain
  • REST APIs
  • BNN
  • FEA
  • Abaqus
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • LLM

OPTIMA-DONES

Project
January 2025 – December 2027
Emilio's participation
14 October 2025 – Present

About the project

Development of an Operator 5.0 approach based on a maintenance ontology that integrates information and artificial intelligence to assist operators while keeping humans at the centre of decision-making.

Emilio's contribution

Directs QUANTIA delivery and cross-partner technical coordination for an AI-enabled cognitive digital twin supporting safe maintenance and Operator 5.0 activities in highly radioactive environments.

Core methods

  • Digital Twins
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Explainable AI
  • Trustworthy AI
Detail and evidence
Funding
CDTI
Assets
IFMIF-DONES

Technologies

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Ontologies
  • BNN
  • LLM
  • RAG

TSEISS

INNTERCONECTA-STEP 2025

Project
November 2025 – December 2027

About the project

Applies semantic technologies to the representation, management, verification and exploitation of technical and regulatory knowledge in the AEC sector, with a BREEAM-oriented demonstrator.

Emilio's contribution

Technical coordination and project management of QUANTIA participation: planning, consortium coordination, work packages and deliverables, risk and reporting, and technical integration across the semantic, simulation and data work.

Core methods

  • Semantic Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ontologies
  • Knowledge Graphs
Detail and evidence

Full contribution

Technical coordination and project management of QUANTIA participation: planning, consortium coordination, work packages and deliverables, risk and reporting, and technical integration across the semantic, simulation and data work. QUANTIA leads the Semantic Petri Nets work line: formalisation, BREEAM modelling and optimisation.

Organizations
QUANTIA, CONACON, KANZO TECH, University of Malaga, University of Granada
Funding
CDTI

Technologies

  • RDF
  • OWL
  • SPARQL
  • SHACL
  • BIM
  • IFC / ifcOWL
  • RAG
  • Semantic Petri Nets

INTELLIWIND

MSCA Doctoral Networks

Project
1 September 2024 – 31 August 2028
Emilio's participation
March 2026 – Present

About the project

Intelligent systems for autonomous wind power plant operations.

Emilio's contribution

Responsible for driving COGTWIN, the polyglot database developed with the University of Granada team, towards production use.

Core methods

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • LLM
  • SQL
Detail and evidence

Full contribution

Responsible for driving COGTWIN, the polyglot database developed with the University of Granada team, towards production use. COGTWIN uses a multi-agent system to ingest structured and unstructured information —including Excel, CSV and PDF—, classify it against existing ontologies or extend the model when undefined concepts are encountered, store it through a Medallion Data Lake architecture, and make the resulting information retrievable through a knowledge graph and SPARQL queries.

Organizations
QUANTIA, University of Granada
Official project record
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101168725

Technologies

  • Ontologies
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • SPARQL
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Trajectory

Professional path

Three stages that explain the path: from naval engineering to structural research, and from there to R&D leadership.

  1. October 2011 – February 2017

    Engineering foundation

    Project Engineer

    ASENAV

    Naval architecture and project engineering for large vessels: structural and accommodation drawings, cathodic protection calculations, coating selection, finite-element analysis and technical certification management for offshore vessels, ferries and small expedition cruise ships.

  2. 5 May 2023 – 14 October 2025

    Research and European projects

    Project Manager & Researcher

    University of Granada

    Managed UGR participation across the BUILDCHAIN consortium work packages, with responsibilities across the Hospital Real pilot and exploitation activities; technical delivery of the demonstrator and coordination of a surrogate-model digital twin for Bayesian structural inference with decentralised Knowledge Graph and Blockchain integration.

  3. 14 October 2025 – Present

    R&D leadership

    R&D Manager

    QUANTIA

    Leads the R&D project portfolio, consortium coordination, funding governance and compliance, and direction of specialist teams.

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Research

Publication and research

1 November 2025

Certifiable and trustable SHM of cultural heritage assets: The case of Hospital Real in Granada (Spain) and the Palazzo Poniatowski-Guadagni in Florence (Italy)

Juan ChiachioEmilio Daroch SalazarFrancesca MeligeniFilippo LandiNoemi FriedmanVlado Stankovski

Published in
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1546 (1), 012096
Publisher
IOP Publishing
DOI
10.1088/1755-1315/1546/1/012096
Developed as part of
BUILDCHAIN

Research areas

  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Cultural Heritage Conservation
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Opportunities and collaboration

Open to professional opportunities, collaboration on European and industrial R&D projects, and technical cooperation.

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