Javier Llorca#
| Membership Number: | 3615 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://materials.imdea.org/groups/mom |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - to date Scientific Director, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies of Materials (IMDEA Materials Institute)
- 2007 - 2017 Director, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies of Materials (IMDEA Materials Institute)
- 2006 - to date Head, research group on "Advanced Structural Materials & Nanomaterials", Polytechnic University of Madrid
- 1995 - to date Professor, Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid
- 1987 - 1995 Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid
- 1989 - 1990 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Brown University
- 1984 - 1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic University of Madrid
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanics of advanced structural materials
- Computational materials engineering
- Characterization of the mechanical behavior of materials under extreme conditions
- Nanomechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Career Award of the Spanish Society of Materials (SOCIEMAT)
- 2016-2021 Guest Professor, Central South University, China
- 2013 - 2014 Prof. Brahm Prakash Visiting Professorship, India Institute of Science
- 2012 - 2015 Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- 2012 Fellow, European Mechanics Society
- 2009 Research award of the Polytechnic University of Madrid
- 2008 Elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Zaragoza (Physics section)
- 2000 Gold Medal of the Spanish Society of Structural Integrity
- 1999 Research award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
- 1990 Young investigator award of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
- 1989-1990 Fulbright visiting scholar at the Division of Engineering, Brown University, USA
- 1986 Award of the Polytechnic University of Madrid to the best doctoral thesis
