Dr. Miguel Monclús graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU) and as a Technical Engineer in Industrial Electronics (1996) at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV). He obtained his Ph.D. at DCU in the field of thin films deposition and characterisation (2000).  He then worked as a customer engineer in the semiconductor industry for Applied Materials Ltd. (Intel site – Dublin), where he was responsible for the installation of PVD and CVD systems and the quality of the metal deposition process during the manufacture of microchips. After his industrial experience, he resumed his scientific career and enjoyed postdoctoral stays at DCU and the University of Surrey (UK).

Afterwards, he joined the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK as higher research scientist in the materials department, where he developed methods based on nanoindentation and AFM for micro and nano-mechanical measurements of coatings, small volumes and interfaces, and was also responsible for providing certified measurements and reference materials for nanoindentation users. After this international post, he joined IMDEA as a postdoctoral researcher (2011) to work on nanoscale metallic multilayers for irradiation applications, and the daily running of the nano and micro-mechanics lab. Since 2017, he is also an Associate Professor at Carlos III University of Madrid, teaching the subjects of “Materials Science and Engineering” and “Materials Technology“. He is co-author of more than 95 publications, and three book chapters (h-index of 28).