Team

Group Leader

Dr. María Teresa Pérez-Prado 2017- Deputy Director
2008- Senior Researcher, Physical Metallurgy 1994, BSc Physics, Complutense University, Madrid
1998, PhD Materials Science, Complutense University, Madrid
1998-2000 Research Associate, University of California, San Diego, USA
2004-2007 Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, LA, USA
2008, MBA, INSEAD, France/Singapore teresa.perez.prado@imdea.org

Research Associates

Dr. Carmen Cepeda-Jiménez Research: Mg alloys, additive manufacturing, elastic strain engineering carmen.cepeda@imdea.org

PhD students

Arturo Martín Research: New Al alloys for additive manufacturing arturo.martin@imdea.org
Dongfeng Shi Research: Microplasticity of Mg alloys dongfeng.shi@imdea.org
Clara Galera Research: Superalloys for additive manufacturing clara.galera@imdea.org
Xueze Jin Home Institution: Harbin Institute of Technology, China Research: Magnesium alloys jinxzabc@163.com
Gorka Rodríguez Research: Nuclear materials gorka.rodriguez@imdea.org
Shruti Banait Research: Additive manufacturing of metamaterials shruti.banait@imdea.org

Alumni

Dr. Nathamar Dudamell (PhD student, 2008-2012) , Quality Assurance Engineer , Aernnova Aerospace
Dr. Paloma Hidalgo-Manrique (Research Associate, 2012-2015) , Postdoctoral Research Associate , University of Manchester, UK
Dr. Raúl Sánchez-Martín (PhD student, 2012-2017) , Data scientist , BBVA
Mario Antón (Undergraduate student, 2015)
Víctor Coiradas (Undergraduate student, 2015)
Álvaro Corbato (Undergraduate student, 2015)
Miriam Gómez (Undergraduate student, 2015)
Dr. Bonta Srinivasa Rao (Research Associate, 2010-2013) , Assistant Professor , National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal, India
Dr. Rocío Muñoz Moreno (PhD student, 2010-2014) , Materials Engineer , HP R&D 3D Printing
Dr. Ling Jiang (PhD student, 2004-2008) , Manufacturing/Test Engineer , Implant Direct Manufacturing, CA, USA
Dr. Somjeet Biswas (Research Associate, 2010-2012) , Assistant Professor , Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Dr. Ana Fernández Blanco (PhD Student, 2010-2014) , Research engineer , Materials & Processes, ITP, S.A.
Prof. Chuanyun Wang (PhD student, 2014-2019) , Associate Professor , School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China
Marcos Cejuela (Research Assistant, 2015-2017) , Additive Manufacturing Engineer , Arcelor Mittal
Dr. Alberto Jesús Palomares (PhD student, 2013-2017)
Carlota Ferrer Hernán (Undergraduate student, 2017)
Patricia Lopesino (Undergraduate student,2017)
Alfonso Torijano (Undergraduate student,2017)
Francesco Potenza (Visiting researcher, 2017)