Emilio Martinez-Paneda

emilio martinez paneda

Prof Emilio Martinez-Paneda is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, 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). Before that, he was an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Prof Emilio Martinez-Paneda’s research spans a wide range of challenges lying at the interface between mechanics and other disciplines such as biology, geology, chemistry and materials science. Prof Emilio Martinez-Paneda has been the PI on over 4.5M GBP of funding in the past five years (ERC Starting Grant, UKRI) and his work has been recognized through multiple awards. For more details, please see https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/emilio-martinez-paneda/

 

Major Awards and Recognitions

2024 - IACM John Argyris Award
2024 - ECCOMAS Zienkiewicz Award
2023 - ERC Starting Grant 
2023 - Young Investigator Medal. Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering 
2022 - President’s Medal for Excellence in Research (Early Career). Imperial College London
2022 - Elected Fellow of IOM3 (FIMMM). Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
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 of Computational Mechanics and Computational 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. 
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

 

Recent Research Grants and R&D Contracts as PI

▪ ERC Starting Grant (ResistHfracture). 2024 – Present [1.5M€]
▪ EPSRC Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Grant (CF-Predict). 2024 – Present [£123,823, 100% FEC]
▪ UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (NEWPHASE). 2021 – Present [£1.85M + £0.5M]
▪ H-SAFE. R&D contract with Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). 2022 – Present
▪ SimHdefect. R&D contract with Shell. 2022 – Present.
▪ EPSRC New Investigator Award (NextGEM). 2021 – Present.
▪ VIRTUALH. R&D contract with TENARIS. 2022 – Present.
▪ EPSRC New Horizons (NanoHMAT). 2021 – 2022

Recent papers