In the academic phase, I have taught undergraduate courses such as Highway Location and Curve Design, Highway Engineering, Structural Design of Pavements, Asphalt Mixtures, Pavement Management and Road Safety, among others.

I have presented the findings of several research projects in technical conferences in the United States, Central and South America, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia and in technical committees of several international professional organizations of which I am a member. 

I have received awards for my scientific contribution, achievement and productivity in the civil engineering and transportation of institutions such as Chi Epsilon, Sigma Xi, UPRM, CIAPR, Purdue University and UPR.  

Mis áreas de trabajo profesional y de investigación sin principalmente: la mecánica de estructuras, la mecánica analítica y computacional, vibraciones y problemas de interacción, teoría de control, procesos aleatorios y sistemas de reducción de vibraciones.

My areas of research interest are analysis and behavior of thin walled structures, with current emphasis on oil storage tanks; computational material science, with emphasis on multiscale analysis of composites and metal alloys; and history of Mechanics. 

Dr. Suárez has directed the thesis of 76 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and is currently the advisor of 9 students. He directed  projects sponsored by the US Army Research Office, NSF, NASA, the US Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, and the USGS. He was in the Editorial Board of the Engineering Structures Journal, the Journal of Vibration and Control and Mechanics. He co-founded in 2001 and is the editor of the Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura Civil. He published four books in Structural Dynamics, Programming with Matlab and Structural Analysis with SAP2000.