While pursuing his bachelor’s degree at Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Saúl focused on mechanical engineering, patents, and medical devices. He volunteered for UNESCO at Jeju-do (South Korea) to help restore historical South Korean heritage, and also designed and patented a telescopic catheter designed for reaching remote areas of the body. While at University of Navarra, doing his master’s, he focused on biomechanics and medical devices, analyzing the viability of a new medical device for large intestine analysis. He went to Dusseldorf, Germany, to search for providers in order to build the final design of this medical device. Saúl has done research on dental biomechanics for eight years and continues doing so, researching on the idoneity of current endodontic procedures and the methods of testing medical procedures, implants and treatments. While doing so, he has designed several medical devices and works to get these ideas to different medical companies. In 2021, he started his Ph.D., focused on the effect of dental treatments on the future age of teeth. Along with his research partners, they have discovered that certain types of treatments performed today are potentially harmful to patients. Saúl now works as a professor and researcher, helping to teach the future generations of engineers and discovering causes of dental failure. Saúl is fluent in Spanish and English and is proficient in French; he also speaks basic Japanese. This fall, Saúl will be studying the effect of how your bite affects the life of your teeth and will finish his Ph.D. He has twice taught on student programs with Putney.
