Research staff
Materials Science and Engineering – Research staff
Dr. Sushrut Bhanushali
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Murali Sastry
Colloids, Thermo-physical properties, plasmon driven catalysis
Dr. Qing Cao
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Supervisor: Dr Lee Djumas
Dr. James Carthew
Research Interests:
Supervisor: A/Prof Jess Frith
Dr. Naresh Chandrasekara
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Louis Chiu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Finite Element Modelling; Topology Optimisation; Process Simulation including powder bed additive manufacturing; Additive Manufacturing including power bed and direct metal deposition; Non-Destructive Testing including X-ray CT and Neutron diffraction
Dr. Bryan Esser
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Joanne Etheridge
Mr. Sam Gao
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Chris Hutchinson
Dr. Wenchao Huang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Chris McNeill
Organic electronics, flexible and stretchable electronics, organic and perovskite photovoltaics
Dr. Zhifeng Huang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jianfeng Nie
Mr. Matthew Humbert
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Solidification of alloy system; Non-equilibrium processing of materials such as high-entropy alloys, functionally graded alloys, and oxide dispersion strengthened alloys; Welding and deposition processing.
Dr. Tom Jarvis
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Dr. Derui Jiang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Processing, physical metallurgy, mechanical properties and corrosion properties of stainless steels and aerospace metallic materials;
Additive Manufacturing using power bed fusion;
Advanced manufacturing technology of metal powders.
Dr. Shravan Kairy
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Dr Sebastian Thomas
Corrosion and Electron Microscopy
Dr. Wenhao Kan
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Dr. Jueng-Eun Kim
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Marcus C. Lam
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Additive Manufacturing, High-Temperature Materials, Aerospace Engineering; Solidification, Modelling, CALPHAD, Alloy Design, Microscopy.
Dr. Bin (Bryan) Li
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Professor Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Weilun Li
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Joanne Etheridge
Dr. Samuel Lim
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Dr. Anthony Liu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Dr. Jingying Liu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: A/Prof Sudha Mokkapati
Dr. Jisheng Ma
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Supervisor: James Griffith
Dr. Junfa Mei
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Mr. Bryce Melville
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Mechanical engineering background;Design and manufacture of Additively manufactured components;Predominant field of expertise in SLM powder bed printing systems. Focus on delivery of research outcomes and commercial projects to external customers.
Dr. Chun Kiu Ng
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Qingdong Ou
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Supervisor: Dr Julie Karel
Dr. Maria Panagiotidou
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Nirmal Peiris
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Yao Qiu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Dr Sebastian Thomas
Dr. Dimuthu Senevirathna
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Babar Shabbir
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Mr. John Shurvinton
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Blown Powder, Powder Bed & Hot Isostatic Pressing.
Dr. Tony Tian
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Processing and physical metallurgy of aerospace metallic materials including titanium alloys and Ni-based superalloys; Additive Manufacturing including power bed and direct metal deposition; Advanced manufacturing technology of metal powders.
Dr. Tommy Wing Yin Tong
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Nicolas Voelcker
Dr. Bo Wang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Dr Hsin-Hui Shen
Dr. Chao Wang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Chris McNeill
Dr. Mingchao Wang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: A/Prof Nikhil Medhekar
Dr. Yuxiang Wu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Chris Hutchinson
Dr. Xueyuan Yang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Chris Hutchinson
Dr. Wenping Yin
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Yuefeng Yin
Research Interests:
Supervisor: A/Prof Nikhil Medhekar
Dr. Jaechoul Yu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jacek Jasieniak
Dr. Kun Zhang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang/Prof Neil Cameron
Alloy development of high strength and high toughness titanium alloy specifically for additive manufacturing process;
Heat treatment development and mechanical characterisation of SLMed/DEDed titanium alloys including alpha+beta alloys and beta alloys.
Dr. Yong Zhang
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jianfeng Nie
Dr. Kun Zhou
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof John Forsythe
Dr. Su-Ming Zhu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Jianfeng Nie
Light metals; Microstructure/mechanical property relationship; Electron microscopy.
Dr. Yuman Zhu
Research Interests:
Supervisor: Prof Aijun Huang
Light alloys, solute segregation, Precipitation, Microscopy.