IMX Seminar Series - Additive manufacturing of energy saving materials

Additive manufacturing technologies allow exceptional design freedom, part customization and component lightweighting, while facilitating the generation of unprecedented micro- and metastructures. This talk will further emphasize their potential as tools for sustainable manufacturing. Highlighted examples include laser powder bed fusion of soft magnetic amorphous metals for efficient e-motors, and of lattice structures with meta-precipitates with exceptional specific structural properties.

Bio: Dr. Teresa PÉREZ-PRADO, Senior Scientist, heads since 2008 the Sustainable Metallurgy group at IMDEA Materials Institute. Teresa was Division Leader between 2014 and 2017 and Deputy Director between 2017 and 2021. From 2018 to 2022 she coordinated the programme on Structural Materials at the Spanish National Science Foundation. Dr. Pérez-Prado got a PhD in Physics at the Complutense University in Madrid in 1998 and an MBA at INSEAD, France, in 2008. After a 2 year postdoctoral stay at the University of California in San Diego, USA, she joined the National Center for Metals Research (Madrid, Spain) in 2001, where she worked as a tenure-track fellow until she was granted a Tenured Scientist position in 2004. Dr. Pérez-Prado has coauthored 145 papers (h 48,
≈8700 citations (Google Scholar)), 1 book (Elsevier, 2004) and 3 patents. Teresa belongs to the Scientific Council of the Nomaten Center of Excellence (Poland), the IRT Jules Verne (France), the Henry Royce Institute (UK), and the European Space Agency (ESA).