Dr. Riveiro has been awarded with the 2019 Metals Outstanding Reviewer Awards (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/awards.pdf/0/pdf_59_2019_1_award.pdf; https://twitter.com/Metals_MDPI/status/1210481438291705856)  

Dr. Mª Teresa Pérez Prado (Deputy Director of the IMDEA Materials Institute) has given an invited presentation on processing and characterization of magnesium alloys in the framework of the seminar “Materials processing” organized by members of the Laser4Mat group.

Drs. del Val and Riveiro have launched a special issue on “Laser-Based Manufacturing” in Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing.

Our paper “Laser texturing of stainless steel under different processing atmospheres: From superhydrophilic to superhydrophobic surfaces” has been selected as cover for the May issue of Applied Surface Science

Granted research project (New wound dressings based on bioactive glass nanofibres produced by laser spinning) by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Drs. del Val and Riveiro have launched in collaboration with Dr. M. Boutinguiza (Univ. of Vigo) a special issue on “Laser Synthesis of Nanomaterials” for the Nanomaterials journal (ISI indexed).

Dr. Riveiro was invited to give a lecture in the “Summer School on Additive Manufacturing and an Industry Day”

On July 23rd and 24th IMDEA Materials Institute organized a Summer School on Additive Manufacturing and an Industry Day where the
progress in additive manufacturing as well as the challenges ahead were discussed.

Dr del Val was invited to General Electric Headquaters to give a talk on ” Laser Processing and Synthesis of Advanced Materials”