Curriculum Vitae - Son Pham
(updated July 2021)
Working experience:
Jul. 2018 - Present: Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) in Engineering Alloys, Department of Materials, Imperial College London (Dr. Pham is promoted to be a senior lecturer (ie. Associate Prof.) from September 2021.
Dec. 2015-Jul. 2018: Research Fellow in Engineering Alloys, Principal Investigator of a research group in Materials Design & Discovery, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
Jan.2013 – Dec. 2015:
- Research Associate Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and shortly with University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- Guest researcher at Automotive Lightweigting Center, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA.
Oct. 2008 – Dec. 2012:
- Research Assistant at Center for Mechanics, ETHZ and at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA).
Mar. 2006 – Feb. 2008: Research Assistant at Nanocomposite Research Lab, KU.
Sep. 2005 – Feb. 2006: Design engineer for precise plastic product at EverBridge Vietnam Co.Ltd.
Education:
Oct. 2008 - Dec. 2012: PhD student, Mechanical Engineering and System Processing Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ). Awarded ETH Medal 2013 for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation
Mar. 2006 - Feb. 2008: Masters Degree in Advanced Materials Engineering, Korea University (KU).
Sep. 2000 – May. 2005: Engineering Degree in Materials Mechanics and Metal Forming, Hanoi University of Technology (HUT). Excellent Degree and Best Student Award.
Grants:
- BP - ICAM fund
- Imperial's Excellent Funds for Frontier Research
- EPSRC-sponsored pilot grant on alloy design for AM (PI)
- Imperial-BIAM collaboration on advanced aerospace materials (Co-I)
- Imperial Research Fellowship in Engineering Alloys (PI): 2015-Present
Awards:
- Imperial College London President's Award for Excellent Research Team 2017 to the Engineering Alloys Research Team
- Travel Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics to attend the 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2015.
- ETH Medal 2013 for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, 2013
- Traveling grant from European Commission, 2012
- Second Prize at Phu Tho Provincial Mathematics Olympic, 1999
- Vietnam Association of Students Award, 2004.
- Best Student Award for excellent academic achievement and volunteer contribution, 2004
- Second Prize at Student Scientific Contest, HUT, 2004
- HUT Best Student Award for the academic course of 2000-2005, 2005
- Scholarships: Denso Manufacturing Vietnam Co. LTD (2005); Vietnam Engine and Agricultural Machinery Corporation (2004, 2005); Vietnam Steel Corporation (2003, 2004, 2005); HUT Scholarships for Excellent Students (2003, 2004, 2005); Korea University Scholarship for Foreign Students (2006, 2007).
Teaching
- Partial Differential Equations (Y2 UG)
- Mechanical Behaviour of Materials: Fracture mechanics (Y2 UG)
- Science and Engineering of Alloys-Additive Manufacturing, Autumn term (Y3 UG + MSc)
- Microstructure - Steels, Autumn term (Y3 UG + MSc)
Research interests:
- Additive Manufacturing
- Architectured materials, meta-materials
- Alloy design, Crystal plasticity
- Metal forming, Automotive lightweghting
- Constitutive modelling, Computational materials/mechanics
Professional activities:
- Associate editor of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics and a member of editorial board of Metals and Materials International.
- Member of Council/Technical Committees: Additive Manufacturing-Benchmarking, London Materials Society, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), Shape and Forming, Mechanical Behavior (TMS)
- Conference programming:
+ TMS 2019, 2020, 2021: Mechanical Response of Materials Investigated through Novel In-situ Experiments and Modeling
+ ESAFORM 2018: Additive manufacturing symposium
+ ESAFORM 2017 : International conference on materials forming organised by European Scientific Association for Materials Forming (ESAFORM)
+ Integration of Crystal Plasticity into Materials Modeling and Simulations Symposium, US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2015: http://13.usnccm.org/MS1009
+ Empa PhD Student Symposium 2009
Reviewer for:
- Funding agencies: EPSRC, EU Horizon 2020, Royal Society, British Council
- Journals: Nature, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Acta Materialia, Advanced Science, Scripta Materialia, J. of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, International Journal of Plasticity, International Journal of Fatigue, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering A, Materials & Design, Materials Characterization, Philosophical Magazine, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and many more.