Josep Ramón Medina Folgado

Josep Ramón Medina Folgado serves as Director of the Ports and Coasts Laboratory at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), where he has been a Full Professor since 1993 in the School of Civil Engineering. His distinguished career includes various academic and management positions at the university, while his research focuses primarily on physical modeling of breakwaters and product-oriented research. His most notable achievement is the co-invention of the Cubípodo® for sloping breakwater armor layers, which has revolutionized coastal protection infrastructure. His extensive research portfolio encompasses dozens of national and international R&D projects, resulting in more than two hundred technical-scientific articles and several invention patents. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated exceptional expertise in maritime engineering, particularly in the development of innovative coastal protection solutions and port infrastructure designs