Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda elected Supernumerary Fellow

The Principal and Fellows were delighted to elect Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda as Supernumerary Fellow of Harris Manchester College. Professor Martínez-Pañeda holds the position of Associate Professor of Engineering Science, where his research has focused on identifying the scientific obstacles that can expedite our journey towards achieving a carbon-neutral society, while simultaneously addressing the urgent issues surrounding our energy and climate crises.

Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda joined the University of Oxford in September 2023 as Associate Professor in Engineering Science. Prior to this, 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 joining Imperial, he was an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge’s Wolfson College. Prof Emilio Martínez-Pañeda’s research spans a wide range of challenges lying at the interface between mechanics and other disciplines, such as materials science, geology, chemistry, biology, and structural engineering. He combines experiments, theory and computer simulations to develop mechanistic models that can reliably capture material deformation and fracture.