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Rahul Samyal is currently working as Post Doctoral Researcher in the School of Engineering at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He completed his doctorate in Feb 2024 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Ashok Kumar Bagha and Prof. Raman Bedi from Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

His current research interests include advanced manufacturing, material characterization, metallurgy, and microwave processing of materials. His doctoral research primarily focused on the microwave joining of different metals and the investigation of the dynamic characteristics of the joints. He has extensively worked on modal characterization, phase identification, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and fractography.

Dr. Samyal has published seven Indian patents and contributed to over 20 scientific papers in leading international journals, conferences, and book chapters. He has also attended and presented his Ph.D. research work at an international conference in Basel, Switzerland. Furthermore, as part of his current CARBOWAVE project, he has served as a Visiting Researcher at a microwave technology company in Lyon, France, gaining valuable industry-oriented research experience.