My research is primarily focused on the atomic-scale understanding and control of the deformation mechanisms involved in the mechanical behavior of high-performance metallic materials. My work relies on the implementation of cutting-edge characterization techniques based on in-situ Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy (SEM, TEM). My current research focuses on understanding the recrystallization mechanisms in refractory multi-principal element alloys.

1. Marta Pozuelo, Alberico Talignani, Matthew Mecklenburg, Y.Morris Wang, Jaime Marian, Microstructural and mechanical characterization of the NbMoTaW refractory multi-principal element alloy after hot forging, J. Mater. Sci. 60 (39) (2025) 18473-18485. DOI : 10.1007/s10853-025-11320-8.
2. Marta Pozuelo, Jaime Marian, In-Situ Observation of ‘Chemical’ Strengthening Induced by Compositional Fluctuations in Nb-Mo-Ta-W. Scripta Mater. 238 (2024) 115750.
3. Xin Chen, Marta Pozuelo, Maxim Gussev, Matthew Chancey, Yongqiang Wang, Magdalena Balonis, Mathieu Bauchy, Gaurav Sant, Microstructurally resolved electrochemical evolution of mechanical-and irradiation-induced damage in nuclear alloys. npj Mater. Degrad. 8 (2024) 1-8.
4. Markovsky, P.E. and Savvakin, Dmytro G. and Stasyuk, O.O. and Mecklenburg, M. and Pozuelo, Marta and Roberts, C. and Ellison, V. and Prikhodko, Sergey, Significant hardening effect of high-temperature aging of alloy Ti-6Al-4V composite reinforced with TiC. Materials & Design 234 (2023) 112208.
5. Marta Pozuelo, Jaime Marian, Microscale deformation controlled by compositional fluctuations in equiatomic Nb-Mo-Ta-W alloys, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 856 (2022) 143892.
6. Marta Pozuelo, Katherine Jiang, Jaime Marian, Separation of time scales of plastic instabilities during microscale deformation of bcc Fe, Metall. Mater. Trans. A 52 (2021) 4275-4289.
7. Yue Zhao, Lucile Dezerald, Marta Pozuelo, Xinran Zhou, Jaime Marian, Unveiling the mechanisms of serrated flow in dilute interstitial alloys using simulations with atomic resolution over diffusive timescales. Nature Communications 11 (1) (2020) 1-8.
8. Marta Pozuelo, Jacob W. Stremfel, Jenn-Ming Yang, Jaime Marian, Strengthening to softening transition in lath martensite. Materialia 5 (2019) 100254.
9. Z Hu, M Pozuelo, M Sokoluk, S Mathaudhu, C Roach, X Li, JM Yang. Micro-mechanical properties of homogeneous-and inhomogeneous-structured pillars in Al–TiC nanocomposite: An in-situ study. Mater. Sci. Eng.: A 762 (2019) 138084.
10. M Pozuelo, J Lefebvre, P Srivastava, V Gupta. Stishovite formation at very low pressures in soda-lime glass. Scripta Materialia 171 (2019) 6-9.
11. Z Hu, C Cao, M Pozuelo, M Sokoluk, JM Yang, X Li. Microstructure Formation and Micropillar Compression of Al-TiC Nanocomposite Manufactured by Solidification Nanoprocessing. Met. Mater. Trans. A 50 (2019) 4620-4631.
12. Alan J. Ardell, Marta Pozuelo, Disorder strengthening of ordered L12 alloys by face centered cubic (A1) precipitates. Intermetallics 88 (2017) 81–90.
13. M. Pozuelo, Y.W. Chang, J. Marian, J.M. Yang, Serrated flow in nanostructured binary Mg-Al alloys. Scripta Mater. 127 (2017) 178–181.
14. Lian-Yi Chen, Jia-Quan Xu, Hongseok Choi, Marta Pozuelo, Xiaolong Ma, Sanjit Bhowmick, Jenn-Ming Yang, Suveen Mathaudhu, Xiao-Chun Li, Processing and properties of magnesium containing a dense uniform dispersion of nanoparticles. Nature 528 (2015) 539-543.
15. M. Pozuelo, S.N. Mathaudhu, S. Kim, B. Li, W.H. Kao, J.-M. Yang, Nanotwins in Nanocrystalline Mg-Al Alloys: An Insight from High-Resolution TEM and Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Phil. Mag. Lett. 93 (2013) 640-647.

• Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), 2004.

• Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007)