Miguel Caro

Prof. Miguel Caro is Group leader - Data-driven Atomistic Simulation (DAS) Group at the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, Finland. Website: miguelcaro.org

Miguel Caro is originally from a small town (Cartaya) in southwestern Spain. He graduated with a Physics degree from University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. He then moved to Cork, Ireland, where he pursued a PhD in computational condensed-matter physics under Prof. Eoin O’Reilly at the Tyndall National Institute. His thesis work, for which he was awarded his PhD in 2013, focused on theory of III-N alloys, a material system widely used for optoelectronic applications. After the PhD, he moved to Aalto University, Finland as a postdoc in 2013. In 2017 he obtained the Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher grant and since 2020 he is Academy of Finland Research Fellow. In 2023 he became Senior Scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University and, since 2025, Assistant Professor at the same department, position that he currently holds. He leads the Data-driven Atomistic Simulation (DAS) group. Prof. Caro’s current research interests concern the atomistic simulation of real materials, especially carbon-based materials, using a battery of simulation tools and methodologies, from density functional theory to machine learning.