Dr. Del Cid is an R&D and Professional Engineer with a PhD in mechanical engineering from Colorado School of Mines. Her areas of research vary in the fields of solid mechanics, applied mathematics, and computer sciences.

Her work examines the fields of food processing, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, agriculture, mining, and oil & gas among others. Her passion is understanding the world around us and finding creative ways to numerically simulate and solve complex problems; developing a kind of “toolbox” for numerical modeling advanced mechanical behavior. Her current work is in particle shape and cohesive contact modeling. In addition to her industry work, she has been an adjunct professor, teaching Finite Element Analysis in Computer Aided Engineering.