Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik (Prof. Paul Steinmann) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). He received his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Jaén, his MSc degree in Industrial Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid—both with honours—and his PhD with distinction from the same university.
He began his PhD in November 2020 on the ERC Starting Grant project 4D-BIOMAP. His research combined experiments, multiphysics constitutive models and numerical frameworks to investigate low-stiffness soft-/hard-magnetic magneto-rheological elastomers. He contributed to the development of new multidisciplinary methodologies for mechanobiological studies based on these innovative materials. He successfully defended his PhD in February 2023.
In April 2023 he moved Germany to join Prof. Paul Steinmann’s institute as postdoctoral researcher on the ERC Advanced Grant project SoftFrac. During this time, he described novel fracture mechanisms in dielectric and magneto-active elastomers as well as an unconventional class of sideways fractures. He developed novel phase-field models and utilized the configurational force method to explore non-linear fracture mechanics. His current research interests include, among others, cutting fracture mechanics, flexoelectricity and architected materials.
He has led his research through high-impact publications in collaboration with international experts. He was also visiting researcher at ETH Zürich and the Zienkiewicz Institute for Modelling, Data and AI at Swansea University, among others.