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From April 8 to 10, IMDEA Materials welcomed 18 students from five schools across the Madrid region as part of the 4ESO+Empresa programme.

Our director, Prof. Jose Manuel Torralba, participated in a meeting between the president of CSIC, the Deputy Minister of Universities, Research, and Science, and the management of the IMDEA Institutes.

Last Monday, IMDEA Materials Institute had the pleasure of welcoming the Rector of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Prof. Óscar García Suárez, along with a university delegation, to discuss ways to strengthen and expand the existing ties between our two institutions.

IMDEA Materials participated once again in the ‘Madrid Es Ciencia’ 2025 Science Fair, held at IFEMA Madrid from March 27th to 29th.

IMDEA Materials Institute has announced a new call for applications for its 2025 Research Initiation Scholarships offering young researchers the opportunity of a 3-month summer internship at the Institute.

IMDEA Materials will join the seven other IMDEA Institutes at the upcoming Feria Madrid es Ciencia 2025, held from March 27 to 29 at IFEMA MADRID, to present an exciting series of interactive demonstrations and experiments.

IMDEA Materials Institute has hosted the semi-annual meeting of the BIOMEND Doctoral Network, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Industrial Doctorate Network programme dedicated to training the next generation of researchers in bioabsorbable metallic endovascular medical devices.

IMDEA Materials Institute is set to welcome prospective PhD candidates to our annual Open PhD Day, which will take place online for the first time on Thursday, April 3.

The automation of defect detection processes in the microstructure of 3D printed components is just one of the advances in sustainable steel manufacturing that the European project IRIDISCENTE is working on.

Prof. Dr. De-Yi Wang, Principal Researcher at IMDEA Materials Institute and Professor at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV) has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), one of Europe’s most prestigious scientific societies.

A new research project at IMDEA Materials Institute is tackling a significant challenge in food science with the aid of materials engineering: designing effective delivery systems for polyphenolic compounds (PCs).

For the third consecutive year, IMDEA Materials Institute ranks among the leading recipients of MSCA PF fellowships in Spain, with 8 projects awarded in the 2024 call.

Last Thursday, February 21, IMDEA Materials hosted a delegation from the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), a leading international research centre in its field.

IMDEA Materials has celebrated its annual Winter Metals Meeting (WMM) with the institute’s researchers presenting a range of topics related to additive and sustainable manufacturing, heat treatment optimisation, biomedical applications and more.  

The Minister of Education, Science, and Universities of the Community of Madrid, Emilio Viciana, has highlighted Floatech as “the best example of how the high-quality research conducted by the IMDEA Institutes leads to real results that reach companies and the economy.”

Shoulder joints, knee prostheses, cardiovascular stents, not to mention dental prostheses, facial implants, breast implants in cosmetic surgery, discs to replace vertebrae, damaged or non-functional tissues replaced by new ones.

Floatech, the Madrid-based startup and the first spin-off of the IMDEA Materials Institute, is celebrating the inauguration of its new facilities at the Tecnogetafe Technology Park in Getafe (Madrid) on Monday, February 17.

IMDEA Materials is set to host a unique robotics laboratory in Spain dedicated to the discovery of new polymer-based materials.