People

Laura Rosso

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Advanced Materials and Innovative Recycling, Technical University of Madrid
Research: Designing and developing functional halide perovskite structures for catalytic transformations
Email: laura.rosso@imdea.org

Aroa Mascaraque

Position: Research Assistant
Education: B.Sc.: Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, España
Research: Computational and data-driven materials discovery
Email: aroa.mascaraque@imdea.org

Ruofan Yang

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Forestry Engineering , Northeast Forestry University, China
Research: Flame retardant polymers
Email: ruofan.yang@imdea.org

Mohammad Zarghami

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Research: Computational thermodynamics and kinetics for metallic alloy design and process optimization
Email: mohammad.zarghami@imdea.org

Alejandro Ortega

Position: Research Support
Education: B.Sc (DD): Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Automatic Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Burgos, Spain
Research: Design of safety navigation for TurtleBot4 during laboratory movement of samples
Email: alejandro.ortega@imdea.org

Xuesong Liu

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Chemical Engineering (spec. in Chemical Technology), Sichuan University, China
Research: Design of multi-structured transition metal-based electrodes for electrocatalytic water splitting
Email: xuesong.liu@imdea.org

Qi Chen

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Fujian Normal University, China
Research: High performance fire-safe energy storage materials
Email: qi.chen@imdea.org

Meihui Zhou

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, China
Research: Bio-epoxy/fiber reinforced composites: structure-property relationships
Email: meihui.zhou@imdea.org

Yunhuan Liu

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Mechanical Engineering, Central South University, China
Research: Heat-resistance and flame-retardant materials
Email: yunhuan.liu@imdea.org

Luis Calero

Position: Research Assistant
Education: B.Sc.: Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Research: Computational and data-driven materials discovery
Email: luis.calero@imdea.org

Jinyi Huang

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M. Med.: Surgery, Shandong Second Medical University, China
Research: Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Email: jinyi.huang@imdea.org

Shuai Tang

Education: M. Med.: Basic Science of Stomatology, Shandong Second Medical University, China
Research: Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Email: shuai.tang@imdea.org

Petronela Chovancova

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Education: M.Eng.: Materials Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Processing and characterisation of nanocomposite materials incorporating 2D materials
Email: petronela.chovancova@imdea.org

Sreelakshmi Vinod

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Tech.: Nanoscience and Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Research: New generation of fire retardant polymers with advanced applications
Email: sreelakshmi.vinod@imdea.org

Vittoria Squartecchia

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Biomedical Engineering: Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Technical University of Milan, Italy.
Research: Simulating corrosion and mechanical properties biodegradable metals
Email: vittoria.squartecchia@imdea.org

Henry Summers

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, United States
Research: High temperature deformation of additively manufactured aluminum lattice structures
Email: henry.summers@imdea.org

Andrea Alonso Romero

Position: Research Assistant
Education: B.Sc.: Industrial Engineering, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Research: High-entropy alloys produced by MIM techniques using commodity alloys
Email: andrea.alonso@imdea.org

Hari Narayanan Karuppaiya

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing, University of Nottingham, UK
Research: Study of 3D printing process of stainless steel additive manufacturing by Metal Jetting
Email: hari.narayanan@imdea.org

Ángel Martín

Position: Junior Research Engineer
Education: B.Sc.: Aerospace Engineering, Carlos III University, Madrid
Research: Development and processing of Ni-based superalloys for aeronautical applications
Email: angel.martin@imdea.org

Preethi Ramesh

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Research: The topological properties of mechanical metamaterials
Email: preethi.ramesh@imdea.org

Pablo Varela

Position: Research Engineer
Education: M.Sc.: Materials Science, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Research: Materials characterisation through imaging techniques
Email: pablo.varela@imdea.org

Yufei Liu

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Computational Mechanics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Research: Modelling of creep and bayesian calibration of models
Email: yufei.liu@imdea.org

Archana Ravi

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Physics, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Tiruvarur
Research: Physical simulation of rapid processing of metallic materials
Email: archana.ravi@imdea.org

Jalal Ahmad

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc. (Erasmus Mundus): Chemical Innovation and Regulation
Research: Fire retardant polymers
Email: jalal.ahmad@imdea.org

Sama Safarloo

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Research: Elevated temperature deformation
Email: sama.safarloo@imdea.org

Ahsan Kaleem

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Mechanical Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research: Thermomechanical modelling
Email: ahsan.kaleem@imdea.org

Paula Chonillo

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia
Research: Physical simulation of rapid processing of metallic materials
Email: paula.chonillo@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

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: B.Sc.: 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

Dr. Vanesa Martínez

Position: Laboratory coordinator and specialist in composite materials manufacture and materials mechanical characterization
Education: Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering: Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Email: vanesa.martinez@imdea.org

Sergio de las Heras Morató

Position: Lab Technican
Education: Senior Technician in Electronic Product Development
Email: sergio.delasheras@imdeamaterials.org

María Teresa Nieto Valeiras

Position: Lab Technician
Education: CFGS: Química
Email: teresa.nieto@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

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. 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. 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. René Pernas

Position: Visiting Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Physics, Autonomous University of Morelos, Mexico
Research: Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials.
Email: rene.pernas@imdea.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

Dr. Jingran Liu

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mechanics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Research: Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials
Email: jingran.liu@imdea.org

Marta María Hidalgo

Position: Lab Technician
Education: M.Sc.: Evaluation, Inspection and Quality Control of Materials, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Email: marta.hidalgo@imdea.org

Dr. Zahid Ali Zafar

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Physical Chemistry, Charles University, Czechia
Research: Study of Si anodes, synthesis of cathodes, assembly of gen 3b cells
Email: zahid.ali@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. Monsur Islam

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, USA
Research: 3D printing of pyrolytic and graphitic carbon materials.
Email: monsur.islam@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. Phuong Thúy Vo

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Computational Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Research: Relationships between chemical structures and their properties.
Email: phuong.thuy@imdea.org

Dr. Arnab Ghosh

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: High Performance Polymer Nanocomposites, IITB-Monash University Research Academy, Australia/India
Research: Fire-safe lithium-ion batteries.
Email: arnab.ghosh@imdea.org

Dr. Jayachandran Subbian

Position: Research Associate
Education: Pd.D.: Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Research: Shape memory alloys.
Email: jayachandran.subbian@imdea.org

Ignacio Delgado

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

Dr. Mohammad Ali Jabbari

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Powder Metallurgy of light alloys, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Powder metallurgy of ferrous alloys.
Email: mohammad.jabbari@imdea.org

Alberto Vicente

Position: Research Support
Education: M.Sc.: Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Internacional de Valencia
Research: Machine learning
Email: alberto.vicente@imdea.org

Dr. Valentin Vassilev Galindo

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Physics, University of Luxembourg
Research: Theoretical Chemical Physics and Machine Learning.
Email: valentin.vassilev@imdea.org

Dr. Pedro José Díaz Payno

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Regenerative Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Research: 4D printing applications with biodegradable metals.
Email: pedrojose.diaz@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: B.Sc.: Mechanical Engineering, Santander Industrial University, Colombia
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.: Material Science and Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Research: Advanced nanocomposites with enhanced fire-resistance and improved mechanical properties
Email: burcu.ozdemir@imdea.org

Nabil Abomailek

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Advanced Nanocience and Nanotechnology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Research: Universal processing route for high-performance nanostructured yarns
Email: nabil.abomailek@imdea.org

Elena Sánchez

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M. Sc.: Chemical Science and Technology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Materials for energy storage applications
Email: elena.sanchez@imdea.org

Carlota Corchado

Position: Biomaterials and Cell Culture Laboratory Technician
Education: VT: Anatomic Pathology and Cytodiagnostic Technician
Email: carlota.corchado@imdea.org

Blanca Limones

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Chemical Sciences and Technology, Complutense University of Madrid
Research: Tissue engineering for cardiovascular diseases
Email: blanca.limones@imdea.org

Jorge Redondo

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc.: Chemical Science and Technology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Combinatoria processing
Email: jorge.redondo@imdea.org

Alba Pascual

Position: Research Support
Education: M.Sc.: Nuclear Physics, University of Seville, Spain
Research: Ultrasonic and X-ray tomography data for composite materials
Email: alba.pascual@imdea.org

Rafael Tomey

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

Juan León

Position: Research Support
Education: M.Sc.: Science and Technology of New Materials, University of Seville, Spain
Research: Polymer modification and processing
Email: juan.leon@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. Jesús Ordoño

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Research: Biological evaluation of metalmaterial printing using shape memory alloys.
Email: jesus.ordono@imdea.org

Saumya Sadanand

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

Mónica Sales

Position: Cutting and machining of test specimens lab technician
Education: VT: Machining Technician
Email: monica.sales@imdea.org

Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez

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

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

Dr. Christina Schenk

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mathematics, Trier University, Germany
Research: Modelling of pandemics and machine learning for diffusive control.
Email: christina.schenk@imdea.org

Dr. Bruno F. Gomes

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Biomaterials, Udine University, Italy
Research: Nanoparticles and microparticles for therapeutic applications.
Email: bruno.gomes@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. Pedro J. Navarrete

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Engineering, Touluse University, France
Research: Proof-of-concept of a 3-dimensional multi-organoid-loaded bioinspired adhesive device for thymic tissue regeneration.
Email: pedro.navarrete@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: M.Sc.: Polymer Chemistry and Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Research: New generation fire retardant materials for Lithium-ion battery
Email: mingyang.zhang@imdea.org

Dr. Alireza Rezaei

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Materials Science and Engineerings, Tehran University, Iran
Research: New aspects of physical/mechanical metallurgy
Email: alireza.rezaei@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

Xiang Ao

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

Dr. Pietro Antonio Martelli

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Materials Science and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Research: Characterisation of steels processed with additive manufacturing.
Email: pietro.martelli@imdea.org

Dr. Mahdi Sabbaghian

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
Research: Biodegradable magnesium alloys which fabricated by additive manufacturing
Email: mahdi.sabbaghian@imdea.org

Dr. Manuel Avella

Position: Electron microscopy of advanced materials
Education: Ph.D: University of Valladolid, Spain
Email: manuel.avella@imdea.org

José Manuel Torralba

Position: Sustainable Powder Technologies
Education: PhD: Technical University of Madrid & PhD: Army Advanced Technical School
Email: josemanuel.torralba@imdea.org

Dr. Covadonga Rosado

Position: Manager
Education: MBA: ICADE Business School, Spain / PhD: Dechema e.V., Germany / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Email: covadonga.rosado@imdea.org

Rosa María Bazán

Position: HR Manager
Education: B.Sc: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Email: rosa.bazan@imdea.org

Mar García

Position: Financial manager
Education: B.Econ. and Business Administration, Autonomous University of Madrid / M.Econ-Financial Management, ESADE Business School
Email: mar.garcia@imdea.org

Miguel Angel Rodiel

Position: Director of Projects and Technology
Education: M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Valencia, Spain / Master in Innovation Management, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Dr. Germán Infante

Position: Head of Technology Transfer and Pre-award
Education: PhD: Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Email: german.infante@imdea.org

Raúl Merchán

Position: IT manager
Email: raul.merchan@imdea.org

Vanessa Hernán-Gómez

Position: Accounting specialist
Email: vanessa.hernangomez@imdea.org

Mariana Huerta

Position: Public relations and events
Email: mariana.huerta@imdea.org

Ainhoa Zapatero

Position: Administrative assistant
Email: ainhoa.zapatero@imdea.org

Blanca Moríñigo

Position: Head of Post-award
Education: University of Castilla-La Mancha
Email: blanca.morinigo@imdea.org

Silvia Rodríguez

Position: Administrative assistant
Email: silvia.rodriguez@imdea.org

Verónica Galán

Position: Assistant Project Manager
Education: B.Sc: Granada University, Spain
Email: veronica.galan@imdea.org

Jon Molina

Position: Micromechanics and Nanomechanics
Education: PhD: Universidad de Cambridge, Reino Unido
Email: jon.molina@imdea.org

Dr. Lodyk Warzanskyj Prieto

Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D.: Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Research: The generation of synthetic microstructures for FFT simulations
Email: wsewolod.warzanskyj@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

Javier Llorca

Position: Bio/Chemo/Mechanics of Materials
Education: PhD: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Email: javier.llorca@imdea.org

Pedro Sánchez

Position: Administrative Assistant

Dr. Jesús Jiménez

Position: Project Manager Pre-Award

Ignacio Romero

Position: Computational Solid Mechanics
Education: PhD: University of California, Berkeley, USA
Email: ignacio.romero@imdea.org

María Teresa Pérez Prado

Position: Sustainable metallurgy
Education: PhD: Complutense University of Madrid. Spain
Email: teresa.perez.prado@imdea.org

Carlos González

Position: Structural Composites
Education: PhD: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Email: carlosdaniel.gonzalez@imdea.org

Maciej Haranczyk

Position: Computational and Data-Driven Materials Discovery
Education: PhD: University of Gdansk, Poland
Email: maciej.haranczyk@imdea.org

Ilchat Sabirov

Position: Physical Simulation
Education: PhD: University of Leoben. Austria
Email: ilchat.sabirov@imdea.org

Javier Segurado

Position: Multiscale Materials Modelling
Education: PhD: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España
Email: javier.segurado@imdea.org

Juan José Vilatela

Position: Multifunctional Nanocomposites
Education: PhD: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Email: juanjose.vilatela@imdea.org

De-Yi Wang

Position: High Performance Polymers and Fire Retardants
Education: PhD: Sichuan University, China
Email: deyi.wang@imdea.org

Federico Sket

Position: In-situ processing and mechanical characterization of materials
Email: federico.sket@imdea.org

Damien Tourret

Position: Modelling and Simulation of Materials Processing
Email: damien.tourret@imdea.org

Johan Christensen

Position: Acoustic and Mechanical Metamaterials
Education: PhD. Autonomous University of Madrid
Email: johan.christensen@imdea.org

Harun Tüysüz

Position: Catalysis and Energy Materials
Education: Ph.D.: Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung, Germany
Email: harun.tuysuz@imdea.org

Jennifer Patterson

Position: Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine
Email: jennifer.patterson@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

Luis Arévalo

Position: CNT fibre lab technician
Education: M.Tech.: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Email: luis.arevalo@imdea.org

Cecilia Salvador

Position: Health and Safety Technician
Education: B.Sc. Autonomus University of Madrid, Spain
Email: cecilia.salvador@imdea.org

Andrés Ballesta

Position: Infrastructure Manager
Education: BEng: Carlos III of Madrid University, Spain
Email: andres.ballesta@imdea.org

Andrew Johnston

Position: Communication Specialist
Education: M. Internal and Corporate Communication. Carlos III University, Madrid.
Email: andrew.johnston@imdea.org

Alicia Montero

Position: Facilities Assistant

Paulo Silva Freire

Position: Public Relations and Event Assistant

Amalia San Román

Position: Metallography fabrication and preparation lab technician
Education: Specialist Technician. Spain
Email: amalia.sanroman@imdea.org

Dr. Javier García

Position: X-ray lab technician
Education: PhD: Rosario National University, Argentina
Email: javier.garcia@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

Miguel Castillón de Miguel

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Eng.: Mechanical Engineering, Technical 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.: Biomaterials, 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.: Materials Science and Engineering, 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.: Applied Chemistry, 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.: Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College of London, UK
Research: Development of biodegradable metallic alloys for biomedical applications
Email: guillermo.dominguez@imdea.org

Ignacio Escobar

Position: Technical Assistant – Electrical Systems
Education: M.Eng.: Themal Energy - Aerospace Propulsion, Cranfield University, UK
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.: Materials Science and Engineering, Lulea Technical University, Sweden
Research: Hydrogels and nanocomposites for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Email: javier.garciaperez@imdea.org

José Agustín Hobson

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

Dr. Thomas Isensee

Position: Research Associate
Education: PhD.: Material Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Research: Computational modeling and simulation of alloy casting processes
Email: thomas.isensee@imdea.org

Mónica Echeverry-Rendón

Position: Biometals, Coatings and Devices
Education: Ph.D.: Medical Science, University of Antioquia, Colombia, & University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Research: Biomaterials for tissue engineering.
Email: monica.echeverry@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

María Dolores Martín

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

Ignacio Rodríguez

Position: Research Assistance
Education: M.Eng.: Materials Science and Engineering, Lorraine University, France
Research: Additive manufacturing of nickel superalloys
Email: ignacio.rodriguez@imdea.org

Jorge Valilla

Position: Research Assistant
Education: M.Sc./M.Eng.: Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, and Technical University of Catalonia
Research: Physical and computational simulation of multi-material additive manufacturing
Email: jorge.valilla@imdea.org

Jimena de la Vega

Position: Chemical Synthesis Laboratory technician specialized in fire-retardant polymer nanocomposites
Education: MEng: Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain
Email: jimena.vega@imdea.org

José Luis Jiménez

Position: Laboratory technician specialized in processing and machining of composite materials, mechanical characterization of materials and polymer 3D printing.
Education: VT: Specialist technician. Spain
Email: joseluis.jimenez@imdea.org

Miguel de la Cruz

Position: Machining and tooling lab technician
Education: VT: Specialist Technician. Spain
Email: miguel.delacruz@imdea.org

Alejandro González

Position: Systems Administrator

Sergio Peña Camacho

Position: Assistant Project Manager

Estela Izquierdo

Position: Assistant Project Manager

Alberto Rosas Carvajal

Position: Human Resources Technician