Sergio Cicero is Full Professor of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at the UC. He joined the LADICIM Group at the UC in 2002, completing his Doctorate in 2007. His Thesis obtained the qualification of “Sobresaliente Cum Laude”, the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, the UC Social Council Award in the engineering fields, and the European Doctorate Mention.
Throughout his pre-doc studies, he completed 2 research stays at the Swinden Technology Centre (UK) and the GKSS Forschungszentrum (Germany).
Prof. Cicero has published more than 250 documents in journals and conference proceedings, and presented more than 90 works at national and international conferences. In this regard, (as of 01/2026) 123 of the documents have been published in JCR journals, including Eng. Fract. Mech., Theor. App. Fract. Mech., Compos. B. Eng., or Int. J. Fatigue. These publications are mainly focused on the mechanical behavior of materials and structural integrity. Additionally, he holds or held editorial responsabilities in different journals, including J. of Mech. Behav. Mater. (De Gruyter), Alex. Eng. J. (Elsevier), Mater. Des. Process. Commun. (Wiley), Int. J. Struct. Integr. (Emerald), Front. Mater. (Frontiers) and Metals (MDPI), also being guest editor of special issues in Theor. App. Fract. Mech. (Elsevier) and Metals (MDPI), and frequent reviewer of manuscripts in more than 45 JCR journals.
Concerning research projects, he leads both competitive research and contracts with industry. In most of the projects developed in the last 15 years, Prof. Cicero has participated as Principal Researcher, including 5 projects funded by national programmes (MAT2009-08141, MAT2010-15721, MAT2014-58443-P, PGC2018-095400-B-I00, PID2021-122324NB-I00), 1 project funded by the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (COSME), and 6 projects undertaken within European programmes (HIPERCUT, INCEFA-PLUS, INCEFA-SCALE, FRACTESUS, ExAM-Fast, EMUS-Twin).
These initiatives have been accompanied by a strong national and international presence, being:
- Chair of the HR Area for Production Technologies at ACCUA,
- Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Structural Integrity,
- member of the Codes and Standards Committee of the ASME PVP Division,
- member of the SEIE-GEF, ESIS, ASME and SNETP.
Concerning management capacities and skills, he was:
- Vice-Chair of ASME Spain Section (2023-2025),
- Director of Research of the UC (2016-2021),
- Managing Director of the Fundación Leonardo Torres-Quevedo (2008-2013), and
- Principal Researcher of two national research networks (MAT2015-71668-REDT and RED2018-102556-T).
In 2019, he was awarded a Young Researcher Medal by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering for his “outstanding contributions to the analysis of fracture and fatigue processes, his scientific production and his involvement in knowledge transfer".
