Confronting the challenges and opportunities for R&D&I in the current geopolitical landscape was one of the key topics up for discussion as IMDEA Materials Institute hosted its 7th Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting.
The annual gathering featured high-level representatives from leading companies with a strong focus on R&D and technological breakthroughs, often through cross-sector innovation and collaboration with research centres, such as IMDEA Materials.
Yesterday’s meeting also saw presentations from the Institute’s three newest Principal Investigators, Profs. Harun Tüysüz and Andrés Díaz Lantada, and Dr. Mónica Echeverry Rendón, as they introduced their research lines into Catalysis and Energy Materials, Biometals, Coatings and Devices, along with bioinspired, smart and living materials.
It was also an opportunity for four of the institute’s other researchers, Drs. Lucía Doyle and Xiang Ao, as well as Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez and Carlos Aguilar (UPM), to pitch their proposals for IMDEA Materials’ inaugural Materialise Proof-of-Concept Call, designed to demonstrate and fund the commercial potential or research results, and to ‘de-risk’ the technology for industry and investors.
In attendance for the meeting were IAB members José Ignacio Ulizar (Chairman, RDT Ingenieros), César Molins (AMES), José Sánchez (formerly of AIRBUS), Thomas Lück (cirp GmbH), ), Antonio Esteban (Tolsa), Rocío Muñoz (HP), Łukasz Żrodowski (AMAZEMET), Pau Turón (B. Braun Group), Iñigo Ezquerra (ArcelorMittal), Asuncion Butragueño (AIRBUS), Diego Moñux (SILO Company and Jaime Fernández Castañeda (ITP Aero).
The Industrial Advisory Board is an initiative led by IMDEA Materials’ Technology Transfer and Innovation Office. Its primary goal is to bring together industry leaders with a broad overview of scientific and technological needs within their sectors to weave a solid network of contacts in R&D&I activities connected to the institute’s principal research lines.
The day’s activities finished with a tour of some of IMDEA Materials’ newest facilities, including our recently developed Materials Acceleration Platform – Robot Lab and the pilot plant of the institute’s first spin off, Floatech.
IMDEA Materials would like to thank all those IAB members in attendance, as well as those unable to participate in person, for their invaluable contribution in driving the institute’s mission of transferring research into industrial innovation and societal impact.
