Deputy Director at the IMDEA Materials Institute and Full Professor at the Technical University of Madrid.
Before joining IMDEA in 2008, he was a researcher at CEIT (2003-2007) and a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University (2002). He has also held visiting research positions at Intel Corporation (2003), Arizona State University (2015) as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the University of Texas at Arlington (2019). He is an internationally recognized expert in micro- and nano-mechanics, being a pioneer in conducting such tests under extreme environmental conditions (high temperature).
He has received various grants and awards, including the Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (Salvador Madariaga, Ministry of Education, 2015), the I3 program (2008), the Torres Quevedo program (2003), and international predoctoral fellowships from the Basque Government (1998-2002). He was also awarded the 2018 Excellence Award from Carlos III University of Madrid and the “Best Paper Award in JOM 2018” by the Structural Materials Division of TMS.
He has published over 180 articles in leading journals in his field (including Scientific Reports, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Composite Science and Technology, Nanoscale), and his h-index is 49 (Scopus). He has participated in more than 40 research projects (24 as Principal Investigator), funded by regional, national, and European competitive programs, as well as by companies (ITP Aero, Acciona, etc.). Additionally, he has coordinated two collaborative projects: the European Marie-Curie-Skłodowska DYNACOMP project and the regional MAT4.0-CM project in the area of additive manufacturing.
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2002.
