Prof. Alexander Korsunsky,

Vice President, Trinity College, Oxford University, UK

 

Editor in Chief, Materials & Design

 

 

Alexander Korsunsky received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) from Merton College, Oxford, following undergraduate education in theoretical physics. His current appointment is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and Trinity College. He has given keynote plenaries at major international conferences on engineering and materials. He has developed numerous international links, including visiting professorships at Universitá Roma Tre (Italy), ENSICAEN (France) and National University of Singapore.

Prof Korsunsky’s research interests concern developing improved understanding of integrity and reliability of engineered and natural structures and systems, from high-performance metallic alloys to polycrystalline ceramics to natural hard tissue such as human dentin and seashell nacre.

Prof Korsunsky co-authored books on fracture mechanics (Springer) and elasticity (CUP), and published over 200 papers in scholarly periodicals on the subjects ranging from neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis and the prediction of fatigue strength to micro-cantilever bio-sensors, size effects and scaling transitions in systems and structures.

Support for Prof Korsunsky’s research has come from EPSRC and STFC, two major Research Councils in the UK, as well as also from the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), NRF (South Africa), DFG (Germany), CNRS (France) and other international and national research foundations. Prof Korsunsky is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Strain Analysis published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK (IMechE).
Prof Korsunsky is consultant to Rolls-Royce plc, the global aeroengine manufacturer, whom he advises on company design procedures for reliability and consistency. He spent a period of industrial secondment at their headquarters in Derby, UK (supported by RAEng), and made recommendations on R&D in structural integrity.

Prof Korsunsky plays a leading role in the development of large scale research facilities in the UK and Europe. He is Chair of the Science Advisory Committee at Diamond Light Source (DLS) near Oxford, UK, and Chair of the User Working Group for JEEP (Joint Engineering, Environmental and Processing) beamline at DLS. These activities expand the range of applications of large scale science to problems in real engineering practice.

Prof Korsunsky’s research team at Oxford has involved members from almost every part of the globe (UK, FR, DE, IT, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, South Africa).

Prof. Kwang Leong Choy,
University College London, UK

 

Kwang Leong Choy [D.Phil (oxon)., DSc, FIMMM, FRSC] is the Professor of Materials Discovery and the Director of the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery at University College London (UCL) since 2014. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in Materials Science from the University of Oxford and Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Materials from the University of Nottingham. She has been employed at University of Oxford, Imperial College London and University of Nottingham before joining UCL. She has extensive experience in in materials creation, discovery and exploitation of eco-friendly, cost-effective and sustainable high performance thin films and nanomaterials processing technologies, especially for clean energy and engineering applications. She has authored over 230 peer-reviewed publications, including 5 books and 20 patents in nanomaterials, thin films and coatings for structural, functional and biomedical applications. She is the recipient of Grunfeld Medal Prize and has given over 150 keynote papers/invited lectures and conference session Chairman. She is leading a multidisciplinary research team ranging from material scientists, chemists, physics, coating specialists, bioengineering, nanobiotechnology, and engineers. Her team is conducting cutting edge research and technology exploitation of high performance, eco-friendly and cost-effective processing of new nanostructured materials, nanocomposites and superthin/thin/thick films coated products for thin film solar cells, clean energy, energy storage, electrical, optoelectronics, environment, health care, and biomedical applications. She has been elected to several prestigious fellowships such as Fellow of the Institute of Materials (2007-present), Royal Society of Chemistry (2010 - present), European Science Foundation NANO network (2008-2014), Chartered of Science, CSi (2007- present), as well as on editorials boards (Editorial Board of Nano-Micro Letters, Journal of Nanomaterials, and Guest Editor of “Surface Engineering” and “Chemical Vapour Deposition”). She has been the Founder, Inventor and Director of Innovative Materials Processing Technologies Ltd and Co-Founder of Southside Thermal Sensing (spin-out companies from Imperial College London). She was awarded a Visiting Professorship (2001/03) by the Swedish Engineering Research Council at the University of Uppsala, Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientist at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE, 2010/2012), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011/2013). She has secured and managed numerous multimillion pounds national and European flagship research programmes with extensive collaboration with academia and industry. She has also established multi-million pound state-of-the art nanomaterials, innovative thin/thick films processing and characterisation facilities.

Prof. Pranut Potiyaraj
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

 

Professor Pranut Potiyaraj leads a team of forefront researchers as the Director of Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute (MMRI), Chulalongkorn University while conducts his teaching and research supervising in polymers and textiles at Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University. He received his B.Sc. with honors in Materials Science from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1994 before accomplishing his Ph.D. in Textiles from The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), UK in 2000. In 2020, he has been awarded the Fellowship of The Textile Institute, UK for achieving a major personal creative contribution in the textile field. His research specialization included polymer and rubber composites for advanced applications, waste utilization, bioplastics, 3D printing, and smart textiles for wearable sensors.

Prof. Gennady Chitov

Laurentian University, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Leonid Stupishin,

Southwestern State University, Russia

 

After graduating from the Kursk Polytechnic Institute, he taught some courses as a lecturer strength of materials and structural mechanics department. The issues of stability of plates and shells were investigated both experimentally and analytically. The desire to find the best solutions for building design projects led to work in the field of optimal structural design.
Carried out his doctoral work at the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute in 1985. Research interests have focused on non-linear problems of the optimal design of spatial structures such as shells.
As lecturer of strength of materials and structural mechanics department of Kursk polytechnic institute he developed research on matrix methods for calculating structures and the finite element method as applied to problems of optimal design of structures. Methods of analysis and synthesis of structures, including smart systems, were in his area of interest.
In 1996, he published his first work on the study of critical energy levels criterion of solid deformable bodies, which remains in the focus of his scientific interests to the present. Composites design issues were developed by him in connection with the examination of building structures at nuclear power plants. Actively conducted work on the inspection of buildings and structures of Hazardous Production Facilities in the Kursk region.
1999- 2018 chief of «Urban, road construction and structural mechanics» department. At the same time, he leads the certification body and the laboratory for certification of building materials and structures. He is the head of training programs for builders. In 2013 receives the title of Professor.
Currently, the focus of interests is focused on the development of the theory of critical energy levels of a solid deformable body, the theoretical basis of which is the mathematical theory of the eigenvalue problem. The developed theory allows one to describe the phenomena of limit states design from a single point of view, and to predict the sequence of destruction of buildings structures.
Currently, L. Stupishin is a professor at the Department "Structural and Theoretical Mechanics" of the NRU MGSU. He published more than 250 papers, 15 textbooks and monographs, 10 invention patents and registered software products.

 

 

 

Prof. Mostapha Tarfaoui,

ENSTA Bretagne, France

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Andrzej Katunin,

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

 

Andrzej Katunin received his doctoral degree (PhD) from Silesian University of Technology in mechanics of composites in 2012 and habilitation (DSc) from the same university in non-destructive testing of materials in 2015. He is currently serving as an associate professor at the Silesian University of Technology on a research position. His main scientific interests cover mechanics of composite materials, primarily fatigue, fracture, themomechanical behavior, non-destructive testing using various techniques and post-processing for enhancement of a performance of these techniques as well as development of conductive composite materials based on intrinsically conducting polymers.

He implemented several internships at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) awarded by the Foundation of Polish Science, University of Porto (Portugal) awarded by the Foundation of Polish Science, University of Lisbon (Portugal) awarded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, and École Centrale de Nantes (France) awarded by the French Government. He is authored or co-authored more than 280 publications, including 6 books on fatigue, aircraft structures, non-destructive testing, and fractal geometry, as well as 3 granted patents in electrically conducting composites and non-destructive testing. He received numerous awards, including stipends from the Foundation for Polish Science, stipends for the best master and PhD theses awarded by FIAT Automobile, Polityka Scientific Award in technical sciences, and the scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland for outstanding young scientists. He is a member of the European Society for Composite Materials (2010-present), Polish Society of Composite Materials (2012-present), and Polish Society of Technical Diagnostics (2015-present), and serving as editorial board member in 4 journals.

His current scientific activities are focused on prognosis of behavior of composite structures after low-velocity impact loading, thermomechanical effects during very high cycle fatigue, and evaluation of corrosion severity in aircraft structures using optical non-destructive testing techniques.