Dr. Jon M. Molina-Aldareguía (PhD University of Cambridge 2002, Scopus ID: 6602977547) is the head of the Micro- and Nano-mechanics group and the leader of the Multiscale Characterization of Materials and Processes research program of IMDEA Materials Institute. He is also adjunct professor in the  Universidad Carlos III of Madrid since 2009. Before joining IMDEA in 2008, he was staff researcher at CEIT (2003-2007), adjunct profesor at the Universidad de Navarra (2003-2007) and postdoctoral researcher in the University of Linköping (2002), Sweden. Dr. Molina-Aldareguía has also been visiting researcher at Intel Corporation (2003), at Arizona State University (2015), as Fulbright Scholar,  and at Texas University in Arlignton since 2019. He is a worldwide renown expert in Micro and Nanomechanical testing, having pioneered their implementation in extreme conditions (high temperature) and/or in situ testing inside electron microscopes. He has applied these techniques for the understanding of the processing-microstructure-property relationships in a wide range of structural materials, including composite materials, light metallic alloys, high temperature metallic alloys, inter metallics, nanomaterials, and more recently, metallic alloys produced by additive manufacturing for energy, transport and biomedical applications. Some of his main contributions in this field have been the understanding of deformation mechanisms, the implementation of high-throughput characterisation techniques and the development of experimental strategies that allow feeding microstructure based multi-scale models of material behaviour, in order to facilitate virtual testing strategies in the field of Computational Materials Engineering.  

Dr. Molina has published over 155 papers in the best journals of his areas (including Scientific Reports, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Composite Science and Technology, Nanoscale). His h-index is 42 (Scopus). He has delivered 23 invited and keynote talks at international conferences and 12 invited talks in prestigious international institutions (Arizona State University, Michigan State University, etc.). Moreover, he has organised several symposia on Micro and Nanomechanics at international conferences (EUROMAT, IRMC, ESMC y SES), and he was the Chair of two of them: Multilayers 2013 y The Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development Conference en 2019.

Ha has participated in more than 40 research projects (23 as PI), funded by National and European competitive calls and industry. He is currently the coordinator of two collaborative projects, the Marie-Curie-Skolodowska DYNACOMP European project and the MAT4.0-CM regional project and the PI of the TOPOMAG3D national project. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the supervision of pre and postdoctoral researchers, with the supervision of 13 Bachelor and Master Degree thesis and 12 doctoral thesis (3 with Extraordinary Prize). Former members of the group are now working in prestigious institutions and companies like the Max Planck Institute, Arcelor Mittal or ITP Aero.  In 2018, he was awarded the Excellence award by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.