Overview
(1) Additive manufacturing: Designing printable alloys, assessing the printability, reverse engineering
(2) Machine learning & Digital manufacturing
(3) Programmable meta-materials
(4) Microstructure and Crystal plasticity
(5) Mechanical integrity (e.g., fatigue, creep, embrittlement and fracture) of metallic alloys
(6) Materials for sustainable infrastructures
Opening positions
PhD study openings
Imperial President Scholarship: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg/fees-and-funding/scholarships/presidents-phd-scholarships/
If you wish to have my consideration for a nomination for the scholarship, you need to contact me before the deadlines
Research fellow and Postdoc opportunities:
You need to send me your CV and research proposal well before the deadlines if you want to request my sponsorship for your application for:
Imperial Research Fellowship: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-fellowships/icrf/.
RAEng Fellowship, EPSRC/Marie-Curie/Newton postdoctoral fellowships, etc.
Prospective students:
If you are looking for a potential supervisor at Imperial College to work in additive manufacturing (ie 3D printing), mechanical performance, microstructure characterisation and constitutive modelling of high-performance metals and alloys, please feel free to contact me at son.pham@imperial.ac.uk .
Collaboration
Academia:
Carnegie Mellon University (USA): Prof Anthony Rollett
University of Sheffield (UK): Prof. Iain Todd
National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA): Automotive Lightweighting Center
ETHZ and Empa (Switzerland): Dr. Stuart Holdsworth & Dr. Ehsan Hosseini
University of Birmingham: Prof. Moataz Attallah
University of Cambridge: Prof. Bill Clegg
University College London: Prof Peter Lee (in-situ image of additive manufacturing processes)
Industry:
Significant financial support (PI and Co-I: > £800k) has been provided by industrial partners in Aerospace, Energy, Power Generation, Automobiles and Medical devices.
Funding agency:
EPSRC, NIST - Materials Genome Initiative