Group members (updated in 10/2026)
Postdocs
Junyun Chen: Elasto-Caloric Cooling enabled by Shape Memory Alloys
PhD students:
Chiebuka Christopher: Shape-morphing and Programmable Metamaterials
Zhen Wang: Data-driven Alloy Design for Additive Manufacturing
Quan Doan: Mechanical Metamaterials
Current MSc/MEng students
McLeod Fraser
Eytan Valansi-Karako
Victor Dudley
Amy Lam
Ruihan Wu
Ruoying Zhang
Alumni
Former PhD students/Postdocs
Hsing-Lin Wu: Multiaxial Deformation Behaviour of Metamaterials. Graduated in 2026
Raymond Wong: Materials Informatics for Additive Manufacturing. Graduated in 2026
Dr. Claudia Tatiana Santos Maldonado (PhD student from 10/2019 - 07/2024. Thesis: Hydrogen embrittlement in 3D printed Nickel superalloy). Now at CERN, Switzerland
Dr. Jalal Al-Lami (PhD student from 10/2018 - 03/2023. Thesis: Processing, Microstructure and Creep of 3D printed Inconel 718). Most recently known affiliation: University of Oxford
Prof. Hang Xu (postdoc from 01/2020 -05/2022): Now Assistant Professor at Concorde Uni, Canada
Dr. Alessandro Piglione. Now: Materials R&D Specialist, Brembo (PhD thesis: Microstructure and fatigue behaviour of Ni-based superalloys in aero-engines)
Dr. Bogdan Dovgyy: Now Lecturer, and CEO of the IAMG International (PhD thesis: Machine learning-based design alloys for additive manufacturing)
Dr. Jedsada Lertthanasarn: (PhD thesis: Modelling and Simulation of multi-scale hierarchical meta-crystals)
Dr. MinSoo Jin (PhD thesis: Fatigue behaviour of 3D printed high entropy alloy). 2026 update: Postdoc fellow at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Dusseldolf.
Dr. Chen Liu (PhD thesis: Crystal-inspired design for high strength and programmable meta-materials). Now postdoc at Imperial
Former MEng, MSc and UG students:
Kit Gordon-Brown, MEng student, Kirigami-inspired morphing structures. Now at University of Cambridge
Niny Qiu, MEng student, Statistical analysis of plastic anisotropy in AM alloys
Eason Liu, MEng student, Fracture behaviour of metamaterials.
Adi Shyam, MSc student
Amelia How, Exchange student from MIT (now back to MIT)
Pria Sawhney, Exchange student. 2025 update: with MIT
Emilio Ahuactzin-Garcia, UG student. 2025 update: with MIT. 2026: PhD student at UIUC.
Phuc Hoang, MSc student
Julius Dohm, MSc student
Stepan Kolacek, MEng student. Now: Boston Consulting Group
Max Moyle, MEng student. Now: PhD student at UNSW Sidney
Shangqi Sun, MSc student
Weicheng Wen, MSc student
Dr. Jian Yu (Visiting), Project: Fatigue damage and microstructure of Ni single crystals in aeroengines
Dr. Jinquian Zhao Project: Fatigue damage and microstructures of Ni single crystals in aeroengines
Dr. Wenyong Xu (Visiting), Ph.D. in Materials Processing Engineering, China Aviation Academy, 2014
Project: Microstructural analysis and constitutive modelling of Ni-based superalloy FGH96
Dr. Liu Chen (Visiting), PhD in Solid Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012
Project: Crystal plasticity-based modelling for fatigue behaviour of TiAl alloy
Jie Lu, MEng student, now MSc student in UC Berkeley.
Peter Ganson, MEng student
Marie Pirotais, MEng student
Chayanont Taksinawong, MSc student
Zhiying Xia, MSc student
Yi Wang, MEng student
Robin Bai, MEng student
Tom Walton, UROP student, now MSc in Computer Science, Imperial
Kelu Yu, UROP student. Now MSc in Aeronautics, Imperial
Stepan Kolacek, UROP student: Alloy design for AM
Bogdan Dovgyy, MEng (now PhD student in the group)
Alessandro Piglione, MSc (now PhD student in the group)
Alexander Bergsmo, MSc (now PhD student with Prof. Dunne):
Zhin Mai, MEng student (Now PhD student in Oxford Univ.)
Ming-Chia Yang, MEng student: Quantifying pore size and distribution in additive manufactured metals
Yini Weng, BEng student: Microstructural conditions of AM 316 steel.
Taylor Gould, visiting BSc student from Lehigh Univ, USA: Microstructural characterisation of 3D printed 316 steel
Paul Sandman (co-supervised with Dr. Davies): Crystal plasticity of 3D printed alloys
Tristan Calvet (co-supervised with Dr. Davies): Fatigue-creep interaction of materials in fusion energy