Ricardo works on the design and analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations. His areas of interest and expertise also include fundamental topics in scientific computing, as well as a number of applications such as multiphase flow and transport in porous media and cardiac electromechanics 

Before joining Monash, Ricardo spent four years as Lecturer in Numerical Analysis at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. Previously, he was a Senior Reasearcher at the University of Lausanne, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne