Alumni
LightForm Group Alumni
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Dr Alex Cassell
PDRA
Dr Alex Cassell has worked on several research programmes since completion of a PhD on the environmentally assisted degradation mechanisms in light alloys. Working in the Corrosion and Protection Centre he has expertise on the multi-scale characterisation of high performance aluminium alloys. His research has included the study of hydrogen embrittlement (HE) and stress corrosion mechanisms in light alloys, the...
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Dr Sumeet Mishra
PDRA
Dr Sumeet Mishra recently completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur with a thesis on experimental and theoretical investigations of the effect of precipitates on mechanical behaviour and deformation texture of an aluminium-magnesium-silicon alloy. Prior to joining The University of Manchester, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore where his research work involved understanding...
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Dr Paloma Hidalgo-Manrique
PDRA
Dr Paloma Hidalgo-Manrique completed a PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid, focusing on the processing of fine-grained microstructures by accumulative roll bonding, and how it can be used to produce material that can be superplastically formed more easily. Since then she has worked on the fundamental deformation mechanisms in Mg alloys as part of LATEST2 and project MAGMAN ....
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Natalie Shannon
Project Manager
Natalie Shannon (LightForm Project Manager) has joined LightForm as Project Manager, previously the Project Manager for The University of Manchester - Study China programme, a UK government funded programme and the largest China outbound mobility programme delivered in the UK.
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Dr Nicholas Gruel
Research Software Engineer
Dr Nicolas Gruel completed a PhD in astrophysics and a Post-Doc in software development for data acquisition, analysis and simulation of astronomical images. As the lead developer for the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Nicolas was accountable for creating the data pipeline to analyse 1.4 TB of data per day, moving then to the University of Sheffield where he led the Insigneo Institute Computer Science engineering team. As a Research Software Engineer at The University of Manchester, Nicholas’s work involves collaborating with researchers in various fields, such as Humanities, Computer Science and Materials Engineering, supporting their research by managing their software development and/or optimization as well as data management. Nicolas’s work in LightForm will be to create a multiplatform data infrastructure to which LightForm data can be uploaded, shared and managed.