DrEmilioMartinez-Paneda

Summary

Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda is currently an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Oxford. For a more updated description of his activities please check: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/emilio-martinez-paneda/

Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda joined the University of Oxford in September 2023 as Associate Professor in Engineering Science. Before this, he was a Reader (Associate Professor) at Imperial College London, where he led an interdisciplinary research group from 2019 to 2023 (2019: Lecturer, 2021: Senior Lecturer, 2023: Reader). He is still closely connected to Imperial, where he holds a Visiting Reader position. Before joining Imperial, he was an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge’s Wolfson College. Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda’s research spans a wide range of challenges lying at the interface between mechanics and other disciplines, such as materials science, geology, chemistry, biology, and structural engineering. He combines experiments, theory and computer simulations to develop mechanistic models that can reliably capture material deformation and fracture.

His recent focus has been on addressing fundamental scientific challenges that can accelerate our transition to a net-zero carbon society and assist in tackling our energy and climate crises. Examples include (i) understanding metal-hydrogen interactions to safely deploy hydrogen energy infrastructure, (ii) developing mechanistic corrosion-fatigue models to extend the service life of offshore wind turbines, (iii) designing new microstructures to enhance Li-Ion battery durability and performance, and (iv) developing physically-based models for predicting iceberg calving and improve sea-level rise projections. These efforts have been supported by various funding schemes such as such as the ERC Starting Grant programme, the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship programme, the EPSRC New Investigator Award, and Innovate UK; Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda has been the PI on over £5M of funding in the past five years ( £22M as co-I).

Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda’s research has been recognised with several awards including the 2021 UK Young Engineer of the Year (Royal Academy of Engineering), the 2022 Imperial College President’s Medal for Excellence in Research (Early Career), the 2021 Gustavo Colonnetti Medal (RILEM), the 2020 IMechE Prestige Award, the 2020 Simo Prize (SEMNI), and the 2023 Young Investigator Medal by Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM).

An overview of some of Prof Martinez-Paneda's recent areas of work can be gained by watching his Energy Futures Lab seminar on "Material degradation challenges in offshore wind, hydrogen storage and Li-Ion batteries":

Other seminar talks available on YouTube include:
Steel & Hydrogen (plenary talk) - Hydrogen embrittlement:  https://youtu.be/WVnCzi40Ts0
SEMNI (Simó Prize) - Multi-physics phase field modelling of fracture, fatigue and environmental damage: https://youtu.be/TPBBN6QHlnw 
I2CNER - Phase field for hydrogen embrittlement: https://youtu.be/IL6J5hckyBU

SELECTED HONOURS AND AWARDS

▪ 2024 - ERC Starting Grant. EU Commission / UKRI Guarantee Fund

▪ 2023 - Young Investigator Medal. Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering

▪ 2022 - President’s Medal for Excellence in Research (Early Career). Imperial College

▪ 2021 - Young Engineer of the Year. Royal Academy of Engineering

▪ 2021 - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

▪ 2021 - EPSRC New Investigator Award

▪ 2021 - Gustavo Colonnetti Medal. RILEM

▪ 2020 - IMechE Prestige Award for Risk Reduction in Mechanical Engineering. Institution of Mechanical Engineers

▪ 2020 - Simo Prize. Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI)

▪ 2019 - Keith Miller Prize. UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI)

▪ 2018 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Standard EF), EU H2020 [Declined]

▪ 2018 - 1851 Research Fellowship (Brunel Award), Royal Commission for the 1851 Exhibition

▪ 2018 - Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College Cambridge.

▪ 2018 - Clarin COFUND Fellowship. Marie Curie Actions (EU FP7) [Declined]

▪ 2017 - Extraordinary Doctoral Prize & Best PhD Thesis in Engineering. University of Oviedo (ranked 1st out of 99 Theses)

▪ 2017 - Acta Materialia Student Award

▪ 2017 - Springer PhD Thesis Prize

▪ 2016 - H.C. Orsted Fellowship. Technical University of Denmark - Marie Curie Actions (EU FP7)

▪ 2013 - University of Oviedo Pre-doctoral Fellowship

A complete list can be found at www.empaneda.com

BACKGROUND

Prof. Martínez-Pañeda joined Imperial College as a Lecturer in September 2019 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2021, and to Reader in 2023. Before joining Imperial, he was a Research Fellow for two years at the University of Cambridge, working with Norman A. Fleck FRS FREng and Vikram Desphande FRS. Prior to Cambridge, he worked as an H.C. Ørsted Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with Christian Niordson (July 2016 – September 2017). Prof. Martínez-Pañeda joined DTU immediately after finishing his PhD thesis (2013-2016), which he conducted at several universities: the University of Oviedo, with Covadonga Betegón (main supervisor); DTU, with Christian Niordson; the University of Luxembourg, with Stéphane Bordas; and the University of Cambridge, with Norman Fleck. He also holds an MSc (with distinction) in Structural Engineering from the University of Granada (2012) and an M.Eng. in Engineering from the University of Oviedo (2011).

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