Miguel Caro's research group – Computational materials modeling – density functional theory, molecular dynamics, machine learning, and more…

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Welcome to our website. Our group, based in Aalto University, Finland is led as Principal Investigator by Dr. Miguel Caro. We carry out academic research on computer simulation of materials using atomistic models. Browse the website to find out more about our work.

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Announcements and latest news

- IEEE Young Professionals AwardsMiguel CaroSeptember 22, 2018From July 23rd to July 26th I attended the IEEE Nano 2018 Conference in Cork, Ireland. Since I got my PhD in 2013 precisely from University College Cork, this was a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, discuss about ongoing collaborations with my former group in Tyndall, learn about the latest developments in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and, of course, present our recent results on machine-learning driven molecular dynamics simulation of the deposition of tetrahedral amorphous carbon, which appeared in Physical Review Letters earlier this year. I was extremely happy to find out that my talk was selected as Best Oral Presentation for the IEEE Young Professional Awards at this conference. This is a nice recognition of the importance of this work and also of the usefulness and power of machine-learning driven simulation of real materials.... Read more...
- Stephen Hawking has passed awayMiguel CaroMarch 11, 2018Stephen Hawking has died today at age 76. He lived incredibly long, given his condition. Even though he made important contributions in the field of black holes, I think his greatest achievement was to make physics accessible to the public. His book “A Brief History of Time”, which I read when I was about 15, was massively influential in steering my career choices and, ultimately, in shaping my life. I was mostly interested in biology and genetics at the time to go to college, in 2003. However, it was still not possible to study Genetic Engineering in Spain back then (I think it became possible just the following year). Hawking’s book awoke my interest in cosmology and astrophysics, and that made me choose La Laguna University in Tenerife to study a Physics degree. Even though I did not follow the astrophysics track, today I am doing research I love in computational Physics, partly thanks to the seed Hawking’s book planted in me when I was just a teenager.... Read more...