Sergio Gonzalez-Munoz is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studies the optomechanical properties of cellulose nanocrystals and MXene thin films. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Lancaster University in 2024 under the supervision of Oleg V. Kolosov, focusing on the development of advanced scanning probe microscopy techniques to characterize thermal, thermoelectric and nanomechanical phenomena in two-dimensional materials. Sergio completed his B.Eng. in mechanical engineering at the University of Lleida in 2018, completing a thesis project on robotics. He later obtained his M.Sc. in advanced nanoscience and nanotechnology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, conducting research on graphene-based neural interfaces supervised by Jose A. Garrido. His scientific contributions have led to multiple conference presentations and six journal publications, including articles in Nature Communications, Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Materials Interfaces. He received the Lancaster University Physics Department 2023 Award for exceptional contribution to high impact publications and the E-MRS 2023 Young Scientist Award. Outside the lab, Sergio enjoys photography, basketball, football, and hiking.