Predoctoral researchers

Diego Iriarte Hernández

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Education: B.Sc.: Physics, Universidad Europea
Research: Optimization of the directional solidification of Ni super alloys single crystal
Email: diego.iriarte@imdea.org

Adrián Cotobal Gómez

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Education: Ms.C.: Aerospace and Mechanical Design, EDDM Engineering Education
Research: Development of high entropy alloys by advanced fabrication techniques
Email: adrian.cotobal@imdea.org

Nafiseh Mollaei

Position: Research Assistant
Education: B.Sc.: Materials Science and Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology
Research: Additive manufacturing of biomaterials
Email: nafiseh.mollaei@imdea.org

Enrique Dios Lázaro

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Education: B.Sc.: Aerospace Engineering, Carlos III University, Madrid
Research: Polymeric composites manufacturing and testing via robotic platforms
Email: enrique.dios@imdea.org

Raúl Fernández

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Education: B.Sc.: Industrial Engineering, Carlos III University, Madrid
Research: Si anode fabrication scale-up
Email: raul.fernandez@imdea.org

Felipe Lozano

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Mechanical Engineering, University of Santiago, Chile
Research: The mechanics of nanowire networks materials
Email: felipe.lozano@imdea.org

Sofía Fernández León

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Applied Artificial Intelligence, Carlos III University, Madrid
Research: Digital Twins for Smart Manufacturing of Structural composites
Email: sofia.fernandez@imdea.org

Wei Tang

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Polymer Materials and Engineering, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
Research: High flame retardancy and multifunctional polyolefin composites
Email: wei.tang@imdea.org

Giovanni Ortiz Pérez

Position: Research Assistant
Education: Physical Engineering, Technological University of Periera, Colombia
Research: Monitoring techniques within metal additive manufacturing
Email: giovanni.ortiz@imdea.org

Ana Inés de Isidro Gómez

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Metamaterials fibres of intercalated bundles
Email: ana.isidro@imdea.org

Yabin Hu

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Research: Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials
Email: yabin.hu@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

Raúl De Armas Rodríguez

Position: Research Assistant
Education: MS.c.: Atomistic and multiscale modelling, Barcelona University and the Technical University of Catalunya
Research: Computational modeling of metal oxide nanowire growth
Email: raul.dearmas@imdea.org

Radouan Bouallala

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Advanced Structural Analysis and Design using Composite Materials, Universities of Girona and Minho
Research: Structural composites modelization
Email: radouan.bouallala@imdea.org

Gabriel Zarzoso

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Science and Industrial Mathematics, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Research: Fatigue and fracture simulations based in microstructure
Email: gabriel.zarzoso@imdea.org

Jorge Cabrejas Marina

Position: Research Engineer
Education: B.Sc.: Engineering and Software Engineering, University of Alcalá, Spain
Research: Automation of analytical tomographic and ultrasound data processes.
Email: jorge.cabrejas@imdea.org

Franck Lopes Ferreira

Position: Research Asistant
Education: M.Sc.: Materials Science and Engineering, University of Poitiers, France
Research: Inorganic Nanowires synthesis by Floating Catalyst Chemical Vapor Deposition (FCCVD).
Email: franck.lopes@imdea.org

Ángela de la Camacha

Position: Visiting Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Engineering and Materials Science, the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Research: The additive manufacture of bioabsorbable scaffolds.
Email: angela.delacamacha@imdea.org

Ignacio Delgado

Position: Visiting Research Assistant
Education: M.S.c.: Tampere University, Finland
Research: Characterisation, optimisation and improvement of polymers used in clear aligner therapy
Email: ignacio.delgado@imdea.org

Alberto Vicente

Position: Research support
Education: M.Sc.: Universidad Internacional de Valencia
Research: Machine learning
Email: alberto.vicente@imdea.org

Jingyi Zhang

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc: Beijing Institute of Technolgoy
Research: Acoustic topology and gauge theory
Email: jingyi.zhang@imdea.org

Arley Garcia

Position: Research Assistant
Education: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Research: Thin films by high power impulse magnetron sputtering and Rf for cutting tools.
Email: arley.garcia@imdea.org

Sergei Zorkaltsev

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Research: 3D printing of porous metal structures designed with the aid of machine learning
Email: sergei.zorkaltsev@imdea.org

Burcu Ozdemir

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Istanbul Technical University
Research: Advanced nanocomposites with enhanced fire-resistance and improved mechanical properties
Email: burcu.ozdemir@imdea.org

Nabil Abomailek

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Autonoma University, Barcelona
Research: Universal processing route for high-performance nanostructured yarns
Email: nabil.abomailek@imdea.org

Elena Sánchez

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M. Sc.: Complutense University of Madrid
Research: Materials for energy storage applications
Email: elena.sanchez@imdea.org

Jorge Redondo

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Complutense University, Madrid
Research: Combinatoria processing
Email: jorge.redondo@imdea.org

Alba Pascual

Position: Research Support
Education: M.Sc.: Sevilla University, Spain
Email: alba.pascual@imdea.org

Rafael Tomey

Position: Research Support
Education: M.Sc.: Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain
Email: rafael.tomey@imdea.org

Juan León

Position: Research Support
Education: M.Sc.: University of Sevilla, Spain
Email: juan.leon@imdea.org

Saumya Sadanand

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M. Sc.: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Research: Processing, characterization and mechanical testing
Email: saumya.sadanand@imdea.org

Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M. Sc.: Technical University of Eindhoven
Research: Additive manufacturing of soft magnetic materials
Email: marcos.rodriguez@imdea.org

Miguel Hernández

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Development and application of software tools for analysis of dynamic porosity in porous polymer materials
Email: miguel.hernandez@imdea.org

Shuanglan Du

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc: Sichuan University, China
Research: Marine-derived chitosan-based thermosensitive hydrogelsand their applications in anti-aging
Email: shuanglan.du@imdea.org

Mingyang Zhang

Position: Research Assistant
Education: MSc. University of Science and Technology of China, China
Research: New generation fire retardant materials for Lithium-ion battery
Email: mingyang.zhang@imdea.org

Xiang Ao

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Donghua University, China
Research: Fire behaviors of composite materials
Email: xiang.ao@imdea.org

Miguel Castillón de Miguel

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Politechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Application of phase-field models to materials science
Email: miguel.castillon.demiguel@imdea.org

Ángela Castro

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Novel hydrogels to support cell growth and differentiation for 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering applications
Email: angela.castro@imdea.org

Lucía Cobian

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Testing and simulation of AM fabricated lattice materials
Email: lucia.cobian@imdea.org

Óscar Roberto Contreras

Position: Research assistant
Education: M. Eng.:Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterization
Email: oscar.contreras@imdea.org

Guillermo Domínguez

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Bio.: Imperial College of London
Research: Development of biodegradable metallic alloys for biomedical applications
Email: guillermo.dominguez@imdea.org

Ignacio Escobar

Position: Technical assistant – electrical systems
Education: MEng. Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Research: Study of the microstructure and properties of high temperature alloys processed by additive manufacturing
Email: ignacio.escobar@imdea.org

Javier García Pérez

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Lulea Technical University and Technical University of Cataluña, Spain
Research: Hydrogels and Nanocomposites for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Email: javier.garciaperez@imdea.org

Andrea Gómez

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Design of Lightweight Steels for Industrial Applications
Email: andrea.gomez@imdea.org

José Agustín Hobson

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc: Carlos III of Madrid University, Spain
Research: Fire behaviors of polymer
Email: jose.hobson@imdea.org

Elaheh Kazemi Khasragh

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Eng: K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran
Research: Data-driven development of polymer-based composites
Email: elaheh.kazemi@imdea.org

Yuyao Liu

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M. Sc.: Southwest University, China
Research: New generation biodegradable polymers in tissue engineering
Email: yuyao.liu@imdea.org

María Dolores Martín

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Biodegradable Mg based scaffolds for tissue engineering
Email: mariadolores.martin@imdea.org

Carmen Martínez Alonso

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Eng.: International University Menéndez Pelayo - CSIC, Spain
Research: Catalyst design based on elastic strain engineering
Email: carmen.martinez@imdea.org

Ignacio Rodríguez

Position: Research assistance
Education: M.Eng.: Lorraine University, France
Research: Additive manufacturing of nickel superalloys
Email: ignacio.rodriguez@imdea.org

Jorge Valilla

Position: Research assistant
Education: Double M.Sc.Eng: Luleå University of Technology, Sweden and Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Research: Physical and computational simulation of multi-material additive manufacturing
Email: jorge.valilla@imdea.org

Junchen Xiao

Position: Research assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Dresden Technical University, Germany
Research: Functional polymers
Email: junchen.xiao@imdea.org

Moisés Zarzoso

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Modelling of Structural Composites
Email: moises.zarzoso@imdea.org