Dr. Juan Pedro Fernández
Position: Scientific-Technical Coordinator
Education: Ph.D.: Chemistry, Polymer Science, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Multifunctional Nanocomposites.
Email: juanpedro.fernandez@imdea.org
Dr. Miguel Monclús
Position: Senior Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland
Research: Micro- and Nano-Mechanics.
Email: miguel.monclus@imdea.org
Dr. Anastasiia Mikhalchan
Position: Senior Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Chemical Process Technology, Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russia
Research: Structural composites based on carbon nanotube fibres.
Email: anastasiia.mikhalchan@imdea.org
Dr. Juan Guillermo Santos Macías
Position: Research Engineer
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering and Technology Sciences, UCLouvain, Belgium
Research: Additive manufacturing of advanced metallic alloys.
Email: guillermo.santos@imdea.org
Dr. Qiong Tan
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Resources and Environment, University of Science and Technology of China
Research: Toolkit for accelerated design of multicomponent alloys for extreme temperature applications
Email: qiong.tan@imdeamaterials.org
Dr. Xiaowei Mu
Position: Senior Research Associate
Education: Ph.D :Safety Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Research: Flame-retardant polymer composites, electrolytes, and 3D shape memory polymers
Email: xiaowei.mu@imdeamaterials.org
Dr. Raquel Sánchez Díaz
Position: Visiting Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Research: Developing new technologies in the healthcare field.
Email: raquel.sanchez@imdea.org
Dr. Mohammad Jalili
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering (specialisation in Applied Design), Kashan University
Research: Microstructure-Informed numerical framework for predicting the response of Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) system
Email: mohammad.jalili@imdea.org
Dr. Eduardo Roque
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Sustainable Systems and Engineering, Loyola University, Spain
Research: Model mechanical behavior of steels fabricated by additive manufacturing
Email: eduardo.roque@imdea.org
Biaobiao Yang
Position: Research Assistant
Education: MS.c.: Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
Research: In situ characterisation of deformation and fracture mechanisms in Mg alloys
Email: biaobiao.yang@imdea.org
Dr. JoAnn Ballor
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, United States
Research: Characterisation of 3D-printed titanium alloys
Email: joann.ballor@imdea.org
Dr. Lucía Doyle
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering and Materials Science, HafenCity University, Germany
Research: The manufacturing of functionally graded porous Polyether ether ketone (PEEK).
Email: lucia.doyle@imdea.org
Dr. Chengying Shi
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Material Science & Engineering, Central South University, China
Research: Determination of the phase diagrams of MultiPrincipal Element Alloys.
Email: chenying.shi@imdea.org
Dr. Néstor Oscar Rossi Cabral
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering with a Mention in Computational Mechanics, National University of the Littoral, Argentina
Research: Numerical models for complex thermomechanical AM processes
Email: nestor.rossi@imdea.org
Dr. Davide Mocerino
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Industrial Production Engineering Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Research: Manufacturing of structural composites by resin injection.
Email: davide.mocerino@imdea.org
Dr. Christina Schenk
Position: Senior Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mathematics, Trier University, Germany
Research: Modelling and machine learning for materials discovery, property prediction and process optimisation
Email: christina.schenk@imdea.org
Dr. Viktoriia Sevostianova
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Medical Sciences, Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases, Russia
Research: 3D in vitro models of airway tissues.
Email: viktoriia.sevostianova@imdea.org
Dr. Sunan Tian
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Research: Sustainable polymer materials and devices
Email: sunan.tian@imdea.org
Dr. David Tilve Martínez
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: 3D printing and electromagnetic properties of conductive nanocomposites, Paul Pascal Research Center, Bourdeaux
Research: Liquid processing of nanowires
Email: david.tilve@imdea.org
Dr. Xiang Ao
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Flame-retardant Polymer Materials, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Fire behaviours of composite materials
Email: xiang.ao@imdea.org
Dr. Francesca Sepúlveda
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering Sciences, with mention in Materials Science, University of Chile
Research: The study and optimisation of advanced additive manufacturing processes
Email: francesca.sepulved@imdea.org
Dr. Isabel Gómez Palos
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering of Structures, Foundations and Materials, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Floating catalyst synthesis of inorganic 1D nanomaterials
Email: isabel.gomez@imdea.org
Dr. Soheila Ebrahimi
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Condensed Matter Physics, University of Guilan, Iran
Research: The development of nanostructured free-form electrodes
Email: soheila.ebrahimi@imdea.org
Dr. Wei Cai
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Safety Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Research: Fire-safe thermal management materials
Email: wei.cai@imdea.org
Dr. Yingrui Zhao
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Chemical Engineering, UCLouvain, Belgium
Research: Ph.D.: Chemical Engineering, UCLouvain, Belgium
Email: yingrui.zhao@imdea.org
Dr. Juan Carlos Babón Molina
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Research: Designing and developing functional halide perovskite structures for catalytic transformations
Email: carlos.babon@imdea.org
Dr. Lianchao Wang
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mechanics, University Burgundy Franche-Comté & Harbin Institute of Technology
Research: Metamaterials with tunable static or dynamic mechanical responses.
Email: lianchao.wang@imdea.org
Dr. Sabina Lachowicz-Wisniewska
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Food Technology and Nutrition, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
Research: The design of delivery systems through advanced materials engineering and ML
Email: sabina.lachowicz@imdea.org
Dr. Valerio Lampitella
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Industrial Production Engineering Technology, University of Naples, Italy
Research: Multiscale simulation of the Binder Jetting 3D printing process
Email: valerio.lampitella@imdea.org
Dr. Muzi Li
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Research: Microstructural and micromechanical characterisation.
Email: muzi.li@imdea.org
Dr. Juan Alberto Meza
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Materials Science and Engineering, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Powder metallurgy.
Email: juanalberto.meza@imdea.org
Yuyao Liu
Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Southwest University, China
Research: New generation biodegradable polymers in tissue engineering
Email: yuyao.liu@imdea.org