Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda receives IACM John Argyris Award

Professor of Engineering Science Emilio Martínez-Pañeda has been awarded the IACM John Argyris Award for Young Scientists, a biannual award given by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) to recognize ‘outstanding achievements’ in the field of computational mechanics by young researchers.

IACM is the largest association in the field of computational engineering, encompassing the computational mechanics association of every continent (33 countries) and more than 5000 members. Its Awards Program has been established to honour individuals who have made significant contributions in basic or applied computational mechanics, and to showcase the work of creative scholarship of its membership to the entire world.

The John Argyris Award, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments, particularly outstanding published papers, by researchers 40 or younger. It has been given every 2 years since 1998. Professor Martínez-Pañeda is the first UK-based researcher to receive it.

The award recognises Professor Emilio Martínez-Pañeda’s pioneering contributions to the area of computational mechanics, with a particular emphasis on his groundbreaking work in the modelling of coupled problems that are hindering the energy transition, from hydrogen embrittlement to battery degradation to corrosion. Emilio said “I am very humbled and honoured to receive this award. I didn’t even know that someone had nominated me, so it has been an amazing surprise. I am very grateful to my nominators, the awards committee, my mentors and collaborators, and to the postdocs and DPhil students of my research group, Oxford’s Mechanics of Materials Lab".

The award was presented at a special ceremony in Vancouver on 22 July by the IACM Secretary General, during the Opening Ceremony of 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics.