Miguel Molinos is an Assistant Professor of Mechanics at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He holds a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the University of Seville (UoS) and an M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UPM (2021). Since November 2025, he has represented SEMTA (Sociedad Española de Mecánica Teórica y Aplicada) on the Early Career Researchers Committee of IUTAM (International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics).

His predoctoral stage—funded by scholarships from the Agustín de Betancourt and José Entrecanales Ibarra Foundations—was carried out in the Department of Applied Mathematics at UPM’s School of Civil Engineering, under the supervision of Professor Manuel Pastor. He also completed a five-month research stay at the University of California, Berkeley, under the mentorship of Professor Kenichi Soga, funded by UPM’s international mobility program. In addition to the publications derived from his dissertation, he received several distinctions: the International Doctorate mention, cum laude honors, the Ioannis Vardoulakis Award for the best doctoral thesis from ALERT Geomaterials, and the Entrecanales Ibarra Award for the best doctoral thesis defended by a Civil Engineer.

After completing his PhD, he joined Professor Pilar Ariza’s research group in the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Structures at UoS to work on the development of multiscale atomistic models, funded by a Juan de la Cierva-Formación fellowship (January 2023–December 2024). From January to June 2025, he was hired by Professor M. P. Ariza on a project funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research to study steel–adhesive delamination under aqueous corrosion.

During his postdoctoral stage, he obtained funding from the UoS Plan Propio to complete a three-month research stay with Professor Michael Ortiz at the California Institute of Technology, where he further advanced the proposed multiscale models. He also received a U.S. Department of Energy scholarship to participate in the prestigious “Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing” (ATPESC), which strengthened his expertise in high-performance computing (HPC). This training enabled him to secure computational time on two pre-exascale systems: 1,500 node-hours on the Polaris supercomputer for simulations of hydrogen diffusion in magnesium nanowires, and an additional 1,500 node-hours on MareNostrum 5.

Dr. Molinos’ research focuses on the development of advanced mathematical and computational models to address a broad range of problems in computational mechanics, including fracture mechanics, hyperelasticity, plasticity, poroelasticity, fluid mechanics, and multiscale atomistic modelling. To address these challenges, he has developed his own C/C++ codes accelerated with HPC techniques. His research has led to 14 indexed publications (Q1–Q2), six of them as first author, as well as presentations at national and international conferences. In 2022, he co-organized an online minisymposium on meshless methods for engineers under SEMTA.

His medium-term scientific goals include the development of multiscale models for irradiated and hydrogen-embrittled materials, with applications ranging from energy-storage technologies to fusion-reactor components. To achieve this, he aims to integrate the tools developed during his PhD (continuum and fracture models) and his postdoctoral work (multiscale atomistic models). He aspires to secure national and European funding to consolidate his independent research line in computational mechanics.In teaching, he has delivered 214 hours of official courses in undergraduate and master’s programs in Aerospace, Civil, and Industrial Engineering. He has co-supervised two undergraduate theses, one master’s thesis, and is currently co-supervising a doctoral dissertation with Professors Pilar Ariza and Sergio Esteban. He also contributed as a lecturer to the MOOC “Main Natural Risks and Their Impact on Society” and served on the organizing committee of the regional phase in Seville of the first Bridge Competition in Civil Engineering, where he acted as coordinator and judge.coordinator and judge.