Fusion Materials

Dr K. Mergia is Research Director and scientific responsible and co-ordinator for the Materials Science Programme of the EUROfusion Programme of the Hellenic Research Unit. She is a member of the Fusion for Energy (F4E) Governing Board. She has represented Greece in the European Fusion Development Agreement Steering Committee and Technology Subcommittee.

Her research topics refer to radiation damage studies, plasma facing materials and components, phase transformations and transport phenomena, ceramic-metal interactions, surface oxidization phenomena, material engineering (porosity, internal stresses, oxidation barriers, materials joining) and magnetic materials (FeCr alloys and steels, magnetic thin films, spin-glasses).

She has been scientific responsible and work-package leader for several European and IAEA projects and tasks of the European Fusion Programme. Research areas of these projects are on fusion materials, materials for extreme environments and aerospace materials and components.

She developed extensive laboratory facilities for the investigation of the structure and nanostructure of materials, mechanical properties, defects and impurities in materials, electrical properties of materials, sample fabrication and metallography laboratory, cryogenic/high temperature systems.