Relevant Job Positions:

• Research Engineer & Lead Software Engineer (+3 year)
  • AIMEN (Spain)
  • LRCS (France)

• Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years)
  • EMPA (Switzerland)
  • Queen's University Belfast (UK)

• Teacher Assistant (2 years)
  • Queen's University Belfast (UK)

• Software Developer & DevOps Engineer (1 year)
  • GFT Iberia (Spain)

Education

• Use of Molecular Dynamics simulations with empirical and neural network potentials to study thermal properties in PbTe.
• Use of first-principle calculations to study phonon properties.
• Use of Phase-field models to study the stability of porous polycrystalline PbTe.

• Area of work: Java, SQL.

• Science and technology of materials.

• Area of work: Physics; Mathematics and Statistics; Programming (Python, Matlab); Data analysis.

Publications

• Javier F. Troncoso, Franco M. Zanotto, Diego E. Galvez-Aranda, Diana Zapata Dominguez, Lucie Denisart, Alejandro A. Franco; The ARTISTIC Battery Manufacturing Digitalization Initiative: From Fundamental Research to Industrialization, Batteries & Supercaps e202400385 (2024).

• Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Patrik Johansson, Maria Crespo Ribadeneyra, Heather Au, Alessandro Innocenti, Stefano Passerini, Evi Petavratzi, Paul Lusty, Annika Ahlberg Tidblad, Andrew J Naylor, Reza Younesi, Yvonne A Chart, Jack Aspinall, Mauro Pasta, Joseba Orive, Lakshmipriya Musuvadhi Babual, Marine Reynaud, Kenneth G Latham, Tomooki Hosaka, Shinichi Komaba, Jan Bitenc, Alexandre Ponrouch, Heng Zhang, Michel Armand, Robert Kerr, Patrick C Howlett, Maria Forsyth, John Brown, Alexis Grimaud, Marja Vilkman, Kamil Burak Dermenci, Seyedabolfazl Mousavihashemi, Maitane Berecibar, Jean E Marshall, Con Robert McElroy, Emma Kendrick, Tayeba Safdar, Chun Huang, Franco M Zanotto, Javier Fernandez Troncoso, Diana Zapata Dominguez, Mohammed Alabdali, Utkarsh Vijay, Alejandro A Franco, Sivaraj Pazhaniswamy, Patrick S Grant, Stiven Lopez Guzman, Marcus Fehse, Montserrat Galceran Mestres and Néstor Antuñano; 2024 roadmap for sustainable batteries, 2024 roadmap for sustainable batteries, Journal of Physics: Energy 6,  041502 (2024).

• Lucie Denisart, Javier F. Troncoso, Emilie Loup-Escande, Alejandro A. Franco; Breaking down the Barriers between the Digital and the Real: Mixed Reality applied to Battery Manufacturing R&D and Training, Batteries & Supercaps e202400042 (2024).
• Giacomo Lorenzin, Javier F. Troncoso, Manura Liyanage, Aleksandr V. Druzhinin, Lars P.H. Jeurgens, Claudia Cancellieri, Vladyslav Turlo; Experimental and ab initio derivation of interface stress in nanomultilayered coatings: Application to immiscible Cu/W system with variable in-plane stress, Applied Surface Science 661, 159994 (2024).
• Javier F. Troncoso, Giacomo Lorenzin, Claudia Cancellieri, Vladyslav Turlo; Explaining the effect of in-plane strain on thermal degradation kinetics of Cu/W nano-multilayers, Scripta Materialia 242, 115902 (2024).
• Javier F. Troncoso, Yang Hu, Nicolò M. della Ventura, Amit Sharma, Xavier Maeder, Vladyslav Turlo; Machine learning of twin/matrix interfaces from local stress field, Comput. Mater. Sci. 228, 112322 (2023).
• Franco Aquistapace, Nicolás Amigo, Javier F. Troncoso, Orlando Deluigi, Eduardo M. Bringa; MultiSOM: Multi-layer Self Organizing Maps for local structure identification in crystalline structures; Comput. Mater. Sci. 227, 112263 (2023).
• Hassna El-Bousiydy, Javier F. Troncoso, Patrik Johansson, and Alejandro A. Franco; LIBAC: An Annotated Corpus for Automated “Reading” of the Lithium-Ion Battery Research Literature; Chem. Mater. 35, 5, 1849–1857 (2023).
• Javier F.  Troncoso and Vladyslav Turlo;  Evaluating the applicability of classical and neural network interatomic potentials for modeling body-centered-cubic polymorph of magnesium; Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 30, 045009 (2022). 
• Javier F.  Troncoso; ClasSOMfier: A neural network for cluster analysis and detection of lattice defects; Comput. Mater. Sci. 188, 15 (2021).
• Javier F.  Troncoso, Piotr Chudzinski, Tchavdar N. Todorov, Pablo Aguado-Puente, Myrta Grüning, and Jorge J. Kohanoff; Thermal conductivity of porous polycrystalline PbTe; Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 014604 (2021).
• Javier F. Troncoso, Pablo Aguado-Puente and Jorge Kohanoff; Effect of intrinsic defects on the thermal conductivity of PbTe from classical molecular dynamics simulations; J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 32, 045701 (2020).

• Lorenzo Stella, Conrad Johnston, Javier F. Troncoso, Piotr Chudzinski, Esther Orisakwe, Jorge Kohanof, R. Jani, N. Holmes,  B. Norton, X. Liu, M. Qu, H. Yin, K. Yazawa; Modelling the thermoelectric properties of cement-based materials using finite element method and effective medium theory;  CERI conference paper 165 (2022).

• CNL Nuclear Review; 
• Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling; 
• Acta Materialia; 
• Physical Review Materials.

• A. Ngandjong, M. Duquesnoy, Javier F. Troncoso, L. Denisart, A.A. Franco, FR.001.480020.000.S.P.2023.000.31235, Agence pour la Protection des Programmes (2023).

Relevant Conferences:

• 2nd European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing (ESAIM). Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens (Greece). 15-16 October, 2024.

• SiMET spring meeting. Hotel Mercure Offenburg Am Messeplatz, Offenburg (Germany). 20-22 March, 2024.

• Upcell Alliance Barcelona 2023. Barcelona East school of Engineering, Barcelona (Spain). 5-6 October, 2023.

• The 4th International Symposium on Phase-Field Modelling in Materials Science. Ruhr-Univerität Bochum, Bochum (Germany). 22-25 July, 2019 (poster).

• APS March Meeting Boston 2019. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston (USA). 4-8 March, 2019.

• Thermoelectric Materials: From Theoretical Design to Industrial Application. Tyndall National Institute, Cork (Ireland). 3-6 July, 2017 (poster).

Participation in Proposals:

• ERC Transition (funding programme under Horizon Europe targeting innovation activities that goes beyond the experimental proof of principle, to support the maturation, development and validation of a novel technology) ;

• CRNS Rise (French program that aims to support researcher centers in the creation of startups) ;

• i-Lab Innovation Competition (French program conducted by Bpifrance that aims to identify projects for the creation of innovative technologies and support the best of them through financial support) ;

• Call for Master thesis in Switzerland.

Training: 15-hours course on Horizon Europe proposal writing, by Euradia (October 2024).