I am Andrea Muñoz Ibáñez, a Civil Engineer (2015) and PhD in Civil Engineering (2020) from Universidade da Coruña (UDC), Spian. I specialize in rock fracture mechanics and coupled hydro–chemical–mechanical processes. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher, leading the GEOMIMIC project —carried out in collaboration between UDC and Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)— which focuses on CO₂ mineralization in fractured mafic rocks. Most recently, I received a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, one of Spain’s most prestigious programs supporting early-career researchers, which will enable me to continue my research at UDC starting in 2026.

During my PhD, I carried out research stays at the National Oceanography Centre (United Kingdom, 2018) and Colorado School of Mines (USA, 2019). Since then, I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Universidade de Vigo (2022), KAUST (Saudi Arabia, 2022–2023) and Georgia Institute of Technology (USA, 2023–2025).

I have been awarded competitive fellowships, including those from the Xunta de Galicia’s predoctoral program and the Margarita Salas postdoctoral program of the Spanish Ministry of Universities. My work has been recognized with several awards, such as the Extraordinary Doctoral Award, the Best Presentation Award at the 4th (Trondheim, 2017) and 5th (Hong Kong, 2019) editions of the International Workshop on Rock Physics, and the Best Poster Award at the Annual Geotechnical Poster Symposium (Georgia Tech, 2024).

I was co-organizer of the 6th International Workshop on Rock Physics, held in A Coruña in 2022, and since that same year I have served as Associate Editor of the journal Geophysics.