CAMP welcomes our new member Dr. Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos!
Dr. Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos began his academic path at University Carlos III of Madrid, where he completed a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. He completed his doctoral studies at the same institution, combining experimental investigations with multiphysics constitutive modelling and advanced numerical (finite-element) frameworks to study soft magneto-active elastomers. After completing his doctorate in 2023, he moved to Germany to join Prof. Paul Steinmann’s ERC Advanced Grant project SoftFrac as a postdoctoral researcher at FAU. He was nominated as a member of the German society for applied mathematics and mechanics GAMM Juniors, where he has served as Secretary and President.
His research interests are in the mechanics and physics of materials, namely soft ones that respond to external stimuli with a non-linear response such as magnetic, electric, and flexoelectric materials. His research focuses on failure mechanisms in soft matter and on coupled multiphysics problems. His work has centred on developing methods to characterize and enhance fracture in multifunctional soft solids and to quantify nonlinear fracture mechanics through configurational forces, phase-field and discontinuous finite-element models. Currently he investigates the mechanics of cutting in soft materials. He integrates experimental and computational solid mechanics techniques to gain fundamental insights into complex material behaviour.
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