Biography
Antonio Tabanera is a DPhil student in the Mechanics of Materials Lab supervised by Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda. He is working on unravelling hydrogen-metal-temperature interactions to achieve net-zero. The goal of this work is to have a better understanding of the behaviour of advanced superalloys used in jet engines working with hydrogen fuel under high loads and temperatures.
Antonio graduated with valedictorian honors from the Technical University of Madrid both for the MSc in Aeronautical Engineering and the BSc in Aerospace Engineering. There he specialised in the fields of Material Science, Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Aerospace Propulsion.
During his studies in Madrid, he has been part of the research group GAMOSINOS (Group of Advanced Modelling and Simulation of Non-linear Solids), where he has been working in the field of metamaterials and solid mechanics, having published several papers. There he completed his BSc thesis about multiscale models for metamaterial calculations as well as his MSc thesis about the response of metamaterials to dynamic loads.
He has worked for 2 years in the company GMV, which is the main partner of the European Space Agency in Spain. There, he worked on two different projects, one related to the design of the avionics of the launcher MIURA-1, and the other related to the field of Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST).
In Spain, he received several recognitions and scholarships for outstanding academic performance such as the Madrid's Excellence Scholarship for several years, the Excellence Scholarship from the Ministry for Education of Spain and the Academic Excellence Award of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid among others.
More recently, due to his academic achievements, Antonio has been awarded the prestigious Clarendon Fund Scholarship as well as "La Caixa Foundation" Fellowship to pursue his DPhil at Oxford.
Research Interests:
Material Science
Computational mechanics
Fracture mechanics
Phase field theory
Hydrogen embrittlement
Molecular dynamics simulations
Crystal plasticity
Diffusion
