David Roch Dupré obtained his PhD in Engineering Systems Modelling with International Mention from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in 2020, partially supervised within PROMIN-CM in the Railway Systems group of the Institute for Research in Technology of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas.  During his pre-doctoral period he has combined his research activity with teaching, giving classes in the Department of Electronics, Automatics and Communications of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ICAI). In 2020, at the end of his PhD, he joined the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (ICADE) as a lecturer in the Department of Quantitative Methods, where he teaches Operations Research and Algebra for Business Analytics. He is also a researcher at IIT, where he participates in publicly and privately funded research projects.

During his participation in PROMINT-CM, David collaborated with the University of Alcalá de Henares GHEODE group on the optimisation of accumulator stations on DC-powered railway lines with the result:

Roch Dupré, C. Camacho-Gómez, A.P. Cucala, S. Jiménez-Fernández, A.J. López López, A. Portilla-Figueras, R.R. Pecharromán, A. Fernández-Cardador, S. Salcedo-Sanz. “Optimal location and sizing of energy storage systems in DC-electrified railway lines using a coral reefs optimization algorithm with substrate layers". Energies, Vol. 14, nº. 16, pp. 4753-1 - 4753-19, 2021. 

At present his priority areas of research are:

• Socio-economic indicators.
• Longevity economics.
• Modelling, simulation and optimisation. Energy efficiency in electric railway systems.