Supervisors
The Centre involves leading experts in materials science and engineering, manufacturing, and data analytics from all partner institutions.
Expertise
The partners (the University of Sheffield, the University of Manchester and I-Form at UCD and DCU) provide complementary expertise in metallurgy, manufacturing, surface engineering, corrosion science, characterisation, and data analytics.
This expertise gives students a breadth of experience and a wide choice of research topics to suit their interests.
- The University of Sheffield has expertise in processing and semi-finished product production (such as rolled plate, extrusions), and surface engineering.
- The University of Manchester concentrates more on technologies involved in manufacturing (such as joining, forming etc) and in-service life (such as corrosion and damage accumulation).
- I-Form focuses on the application of digital technologies to materials development and process optimisation.
Research techniques
Collectively, we can provide students with hands on experience of an exceptional range of state of the art research techniques.
- The University of Sheffield specialises in thermo-mechanical simulation, and processing equipment.
- The University of Manchester focuses on 3D microstructure characterisation, residual stress, damage characterisation, corrosion and surface analysis.
- I-Form provides the integration tools to fuse physical and cyber system technologies.
The University of Sheffield supervisors
- Dr Magnus Anderson
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- Dr Kathy Christofidou
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- Dr Julian Dean
- Professor David Fletcher
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- Dr Colin Freeman
- Dr Amy Gandy
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- Professor Russell Goodall
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- Professor Martin Jackson
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- Professor Roger Lewis
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- Dr Adrian Leyland
- Professor Eric Palmiere
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- Professor Mark Rainforth
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- Professor Iain Todd
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- Dr Richard Thackray
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Partner institution supervisors
- The University of Manchester
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- Professor Joseph Robson (School of Materials)
- Professor Grace Burke (School of Materials)
- Dr Timothy Burnett (School of Materials)
- Dr Michele Curioni (School of Materials)
- Professor Dirk Engelberg (School of Materials)
- Dr John Francis (School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering)
- Dr Philipp Frankel (School of Materials)
- Dr Ahu Gumrah Parry (School of Materials)
- Dr Robert Harrison (School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering)
- Dr Enrique Jimenez-Melero (School of Materials)
- Professor Allan Matthews (School of Materials)
- Dr Ed Pickering (School of Materials)
- Professor Phil Prangnell (School of Materials)
- Professor Michael Preuss (School of Materials)
- Professor João Quinta Da Fonseca (School of Materials)
- Dr Chris Race (School of Materials)
- Dr Fabio Scenini (School of Materials)
- Dr Pratheek Shanthraj (School of Materials)
- Professor Phil Withers (School of Materials)
- Professor Xiaorong Zhou (School of Materials)
- I-Form
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- Dr Aisling Ní Annaidh (UCD - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)
- Professor Dermot Brabazon (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Professor David Browne (UCD - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)
- Dr Philip Cardiff (UCD - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)
- Dr Mert Celikin (UCD - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)
- Professor Brian Corcoran (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Professor Pádraig Cunningham (UCD - School of Computer Science)
- Dr Yan Delauré (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Professor Denis Dowling (UCD - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)
- Professor Nicholas Dunne (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Dr Lorna Fitzsimons (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Dr Jennifer Gaughran (DCU - School of Physical Sciences)
- Professor Aoife Gowen (UCD - School of Biosystems and Food Engineering)
- Professor Greg Hughes (DCU - Vice President of Research and Innovation)
- Dr David Kinahan (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Dr Tanya Levingstone (DCU - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
- Professor Patrick McNally (DCU - School of Electronic Engineering)
- Dr Alessandra Mileo (DCU - School of Computing)
- Professor Nikolaos Papakostas (UCD - School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering)
- Professor Robert Shorten (UCD - School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
- Dr Saoirse Tracy (UCD - School of Agriculture and Food Science)
- Dr Mercedes Vazquez (DCU - Chemical Sciences)
Management team
- Professor Russell Goodall, CDT Director, the University of Sheffield
- Sharon Brown, Senior CDT Manager
- Lynn Li, CDT Administrator
- Dr Richard Thackray, Course Director, the University of Sheffield
- Professor Joe Robson, CDT Director, the University of Manchester
- Professor Dermot Brabazon, CDT Director, I-Form (Dublin City University)
- Joan Kelly, CDT Manager
- Dr Ed Pickering, Chair - Outreach Group, the University of Manchester
- Dr Chris Race, Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Champion, Chair - Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Group, the University of Manchester
