Physical Metallurgy
In 1998 Dr. Pérez Prado joined the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) as a Postgraduate Research Engineer, working on the measurement of residual stresses by convergent beam electron microscopy (CBED) and on the microtexture characterization of materials deformed at high strain rate. She was also hired as a consultant at Oregon State University. In 2001 she returned to CENIM, Madrid, where she worked as a Ramón y Cajal fellow on the processing and physical metallurgy of novel Mg alloys for light transportation. She was granted a Tenured Scientist position in 2004.
Dr. Pérez-Prado´s current research interests involve applied and fundamental work on the processing, characterization and mechanical behavior of advanced metallic materials for automotive, energy and biomedical applications. She has coauthored 1 book and 110 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and 1 book (Elsevier, 2004). Her h factor is 34 (Source: Scopus). She has led 17 R&D projects and has supervised 7 PhD thesis. She was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2006. Dr. Pérez-Prado completed an MBA at Insead, France, in 2008, where her team project, a spin-off company based on technology developed at Caltech and the University of Pittsburgh, was awarded the 1st prize at the Business Venture Competition.