Dr. Isaac Toda-Caraballo

Dr. Isaac Toda Caraballo is Tenured Scientist at the Spanish National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM-CSIC). He has two degrees, one in Mathematics (University of Zaragoza) and another in Statistics (Complutense University of Madrid). He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid, with the thesis developed in CENIM-CSIC with a comprehensive multiscale simulation, using ab-initio, Molecular Dynamics, Microstructural evolution simulations, statistical analysis and Finite Element Modelling to study the recrystallization and grain growth in ODS steels.
After this, he joined Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy of the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Research Associate for 6 years (2011-2017), where he started working in High Entropy Alloys developing physical based modelling for thermal stability and mechanical properties. He also performed research in fatigue in bearing steels and hydrogen embrittlement in austenitic steels. Other systems he has explored are Mg-alloys, modelling mechanical properties, and Al-alloys simulating microstructural evolution. During this postdoctoral period, he was member of the Computing Committee of the Dep. of Materials Science and Metallurgy, where a group formed to be in charge of the communications between the researchers and the computing officer, network issues and maintenance of the server room.
Subsequently, he re-joined CENIM with a fellowship (2017-2021) from the Programa de Atracción de Talento (Regional Government of Madrid). He continued his research line in High Entropy Alloys, where he has investigated the production of these alloys by Additive Manufacturing. He has been the PI of a pilot project from the Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials of the European Energy Research Alliance (JPNM – EERA) and he is currently the PI of a Horizon European project focused in the development of new High Entropy Alloys for fusion and fission. Additionally, he has co-coordinated Spanish national project focused on the design of new alumina forming martensitic alloys and he coordinates national project. Finally, he has been awarded by the grant from the Atracción de Talento en Competencias Digitales dealing with the use of machine learning techniques in the field of metallurgy. Additionally, to these projects, he has participated in 2 Spanish National projects, 4 international projects and one regional from the regional government of Madrid.
In 2023 he set up a new laboratory in CENIM, the Physical Metallurgy Digital Laboratory, from which he is the scientific manager. A corresponding Scientific-Technical Service (Servicio Científico Técnico) along with a high performing server is also available. It is devoted to provide computational tools with the most relevant licenced thermodynamic software, machine learning and programming oriented to metallurgy.