The Royal Academy of Engineering grants the title of Laureado Engineer to the professor Federico Paris Carballo 

The Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain has granted the title of Laureado Engineer to the Professor of Continuous Media Mechanics and Structures Theory of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville, Federico Paris Carballo, for its long and prolific professional and academic career. 

The recognition ceremony, which took place at the headquarters of the RAING in Madrid, was in charge of Manuel Doblaré Castellano, an academic of the Royal Academy of Engineering, while Jaime Domínguez Abascal, president of the institution, handed him a sculpture as a symbol of his distinction. In the same act, engineers Francisco Aparicio Izquierdo and Rafael Avilés González were recognized with the same distinction

Federico Paris Carballo is an industrial engineer, entitled by the University of Seville in 1976, and a doctor from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1979, receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Since 1981, he has been a professor in continuous media mechanics and structure theory, starting his academic career at the Polytechnic University of Las Palmas, and since 1982, he has been part of the Department of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville.

His international career includes teaching in institutions such as the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Virginia Tech (USA) and the Luleå Institute of Technology (Sweden), in addition to his work as a researcher at Nasa-Langley Research Center (USA). He was responsible for the GERM Research Group (Group 131 of the Andalusian Research Plan), and together with the Us also professor, José Cañas Delgado, founded the Spin-Off Teams in the GIRM laboratories. He also held the position of director of the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Seville between 2002 and 2006.

Throughout his career, he presided over the Spanish Association of Composite Materials (AEMAC) between 1999 and 2005 and, since 2014, he has been president of the European Society for Composite Materials (ESCM).

The impact of D. Federico Paris Carballo in the field of material and structures engineering has been crucial, standing out for its dedication and constant impulse to collaboration between university and industry