Dr. Federico Sket holds (since 2020) a Senior Researcher position at the IMDEA Materials Institute as head of the “In-situ processing and mechanical characterization of materials" Group. He graduated in Electrical Engineering (2006) at the National University of Comahue, Argentina, and obtained his PhD in Mechanical and Material Engineering (2010) from Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research -MPIe- (Germany) and Bochum University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, (Germany). He joined IMDEA Materials in 2010 were he carried out his post-doctoral studies and later became junior researcher (2015-2020) under a tenure track position. In 2018, he was awarded with a Ramón y Cajal fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and since 2020 he holds a Senior Researcher position at IMDEA Materials Institute.

Dr. Sket has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles in international journals (Web-of-Science h-index: 17) with the vast majority of them in first quartile (Q1) of their categories. He has contributed to >90 conferences.